San Francisco, CA crime rate
In 2025 the San Francisco Police Department reported 486.2 violent crimes and 2,960.0 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for California and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
How does San Francisco compare with California and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows San Francisco only.
What offenses were reported in San Francisco, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | California | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 3,964 | 486.2 | 432.7 | 327.6 | down 18.5% | 2021: not reported |
| Murder | 28 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.1 | down 22.7% | 2021: not reported |
| Rape | 218 | 26.7 | 33.4 | 36.1 | down 23.5% | 2021: not reported |
| Robbery | 1,645 | 201.8 | 94.9 | 49.4 | down 24.5% | 2021: not reported |
| Aggravated assault | 2,073 | 254.3 | 301.0 | 238.0 | down 12.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 24,134 | 2,960.0 | 1,792.2 | 1,534.8 | down 25.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Burglary | 3,795 | 465.5 | 275.1 | 193.6 | down 27.0% | 2021: not reported |
| Larceny-theft | 17,064 | 2,092.9 | 1,200.5 | 1,144.1 | down 20.1% | 2021: not reported |
| Motor vehicle theft | 3,050 | 374.1 | 316.7 | 197.0 | down 44.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Arson | 225 | 27.6 | Not estimated | Not estimated | down 16.6% | 2021: not reported |
Reported = offenses known to the San Francisco Police Department and sent to the FBI. California and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
San Francisco's own count
| Offense | Year | FBI count | City count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murder | 2025 | 28 | 28 |
| Murder | 2024 | 35 | 35 |
| Robbery | 2025 | 1,645 | 1,642 |
| Robbery | 2024 | 2,145 | 2,154 |
| Aggravated assault | 2025 | 2,073 | 2,063 |
| Aggravated assault | 2024 | 2,329 | 2,348 |
| Burglary | 2025 | 3,795 | 3,744 |
| Burglary | 2024 | 5,118 | 5,176 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 2025 | 3,050 | 3,054 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 2024 | 5,401 | 5,440 |
City count: SFPD CompStat Report, December 2025, sanfranciscopolice.org, checked October 29, 2026. The city counts some crimes differently from the FBI (for example by victim instead of by incident), so the two numbers don't always match.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | San Francisco | United States | California |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 387.0 | 481.2 |
| 2022 | 696.1 | 388.7 | 503.6 |
| 2023 | 710.2 | 379.5 | 506.9 |
| 2024 | 596.5 | 362.9 | 475.3 |
| 2025 | 486.2 | 327.6 | 432.7 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | San Francisco | United States | California |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 1,832.3 | 2,165.3 |
| 2022 | 6,290.5 | 1,973.8 | 2,361.5 |
| 2023 | 5,753.9 | 1,934.1 | 2,326.1 |
| 2024 | 3,962.2 | 1,761.1 | 1,964.9 |
| 2025 | 2,960.0 | 1,534.8 | 1,792.2 |
Is San Francisco safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the San Francisco Police Department reported, 486.2 per 100,000 residents, was higher than California's 432.7, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It fell 18.5% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
In 2025 the San Francisco Police Department had 24,134 property crimes and 3,964 violent crimes reported to the FBI. Property crime came to 2,960.0 per 100,000 residents covered by the San Francisco Police Department, 1.7 times the California estimate of 1,792.2 and 1.9 times the US rate of 1,534.8. The violent rate of 486.2 was 1.1 times the state's 432.7 and 1.5 times the national 327.6.
Property crime has fallen 52.9% since 2022, from 6,290.5, and 25.3% in the last year. Larceny-theft fell the most of the property offenses from 2022 to 2025, 55.0%, and still made up 71% of property crime. Motor vehicle theft had the largest fall in that group from 2024 to 2025, 44.4%.
Violent crime is down 30.2% from 2022, when it was 696.1, and 18.5% from 2024. Murder fell the most of the violent offenses since 2022, 52.8%, to 28 homicides in 2025, and the murder rate of 3.4 was below both the state's 3.5 and the US 4.1. Robbery had the largest fall in the last year, 24.5%, though at 201.8 per 100,000 it was 4.1 times the national rate.
Aggravated assault accounted for 52% of violent crime. No data was reported for 2021; the other 4 of 5 years have all 12 months. The department does not report to NIBRS and had 3.44 police employees per 1,000 residents in 2025.
The county sheriff, BART police, San Francisco State University and University of California police report separately, so their cases are not included.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 3.44 per 1,000 residents (1,881 officers, 927 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Other California cities
The nearest California cities with a page, in alphabetical order. VC = violent crime per 100,000, 2025.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, San Francisco Police Department (ORI CA0380100), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, California and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_CA0380100_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- San Francisco Police Department (CA0380100): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_CA0380100__from-2021-to-2025.json)