Safest & Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in San Francisco

Neighborhoods ranked: 36
Reports, 30 days: 4,459
Violent, 30 days: 820
Violent / sq mi: 19; city-wide, median 12

Safest neighborhoods in San Francisco#

The 10 San Francisco neighborhoods with the fewest violent crime reports per square mile over the last 30 days. Low numbers mean few reports where people live and work, not that nothing ever happens there.

Safest neighborhoods in San Francisco
#	Neighborhood	Violent / sq mi	Violent	All reports
1	Twin Peaks	0.0	0	6
2	West of Twin Peaks	1.6	5	40
3	Presidio Heights	2.0	1	19
4	Inner Sunset	2.1	3	31
5	Lakeshore	2.4	7	61
6	Sunset/Parkside	2.6	11	82
7	Glen Park	3.0	2	17
8	Noe Valley	3.1	3	33
9	Seacliff	4.7	1	4
10	Outer Richmond	5.0	9	57

Most dangerous neighborhoods in San Francisco#

The 10 neighborhoods with the most violent crime reports per square mile. Downtowns, nightlife districts and transit hubs rank high partly because so many people pass through them; a report is where an incident was recorded, not a judgment on the people who live there.

Neighborhoods with the most violent crime reports in San Francisco
#	Neighborhood	Violent / sq mi	Violent	All reports
1	Tenderloin	309	121	576
2	South of Market	123	108	703
3	Nob Hill	94	38	141
4	Chinatown	71	16	70
5	Mission	62	117	916
6	North Beach	60	30	72
7	Western Addition	45	26	101
8	Financial District/South Beach	41	46	282
9	Hayes Valley	33	16	99
10	Mission Bay	26	21	64

All 37 San Francisco neighborhoods#

Every neighborhood, safest first (1 = the fewest violent crime reports per square mile). Neighborhoods under 0.2 square miles are listed without a rank: a single report would swing their figure.

San Francisco neighborhoods ranked by violent crime reports per square mile
#	Neighborhood	Violent / sq mi	Violent	All reports
1	Twin Peaks	0.0	0	6
2	West of Twin Peaks	1.6	5	40
3	Presidio Heights	2.0	1	19
4	Inner Sunset	2.1	3	31
5	Lakeshore	2.4	7	61
6	Sunset/Parkside	2.6	11	82
7	Glen Park	3.0	2	17
8	Noe Valley	3.1	3	33
9	Seacliff	4.7	1	4
10	Outer Richmond	5.0	9	57
11	Treasure Island	5.6	5	11
12	Potrero Hill	6.2	7	40
13	Inner Richmond	9.4	7	49
14	Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside	9.5	10	38
15	Portola	9.7	8	37
16	Outer Mission	10	10	55
17	Russian Hill	10	5	42
18	Lone Mountain/USF	10	6	30
19	Castro/Upper Market	13	11	77
20	Bayview Hunters Point	13	69	285
21	Pacific Heights	14	11	96
22	Excelsior	15	21	64
23	Visitacion Valley	16	10	29
24	Bernal Heights	18	19	77
25	Haight Ashbury	22	12	50
26	Marina	22	23	89
27	Mission Bay	26	21	64
28	Hayes Valley	33	16	99
29	Financial District/South Beach	41	46	282
30	Western Addition	45	26	101
31	North Beach	60	30	72
32	Mission	62	117	916
33	Chinatown	71	16	70
34	Nob Hill	94	38	141
35	South of Market	123	108	703
36	Tenderloin	309	121	576
—	Japantown	—	5	16

How this ranking works#

Data: every crime report SFPD published for the last 30 days, placed in a neighborhood from its block-level location.
Measure: violent crime reports (assault, robbery, homicide, sex offenses and similar) per square mile of the neighborhood, so large and small areas compare fairly.
Limits:reports are preliminary and are not convictions; departments do not publish every incident; busy areas count visitors' incidents too. Treat the ranking as a starting point and check the blocks you care about on the map.
Boundaries: DataSF analysis neighborhoods. 55 reports fell outside these outlines (parks, airports, the edge of the city) and are not counted.

Questions#

What is the safest neighborhood in San Francisco?

By violent crime reports per square mile over the last 30 days, Twin Peaks ranks first, with 0 violent reports on 0.7 square miles. West of Twin Peaks and Presidio Heights follow.

What is the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco?

Tenderloin has the most violent crime reports per square mile right now (309, against a city median of 12). Rankings shift month to month, and a few blocks often account for most of a neighborhood's reports.

How often is this ranking updated?

Warden recomputes it every few hours from SFPD's open-data feed. Last computed Nov 4, 5:15 AM PT.

About this data#

San Francisco Police Department via data.sf.gov, PDDL. Locations are approximate, usually the block. All agencies: data sources.

Neighborhood rankings in other cities#

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