Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Oakland (2024)
Oakland's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these OPD police beats are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The OPD police beats at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Oakland OPD police beats.
Volume, not a safety rate. OPD police beat resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the OPD police beat (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Oakland zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same OPD police beats as the safest neighborhoods in oakland list.
- 1Beat 19X0/100
- 2Beat 08X25/100
- 3Beat 23X29/100
- 4Beat 04X31/100
- 5Beat 26Y42/100
- 6Beat 20X44/100
- 7Beat 30X45/100
- 8Beat 29X52/100
- 9Beat 07X53/100
- 10Beat 34X54/100
- 11Beat 33X54/100
- 12Beat 32X55/100
- 13Beat 27Y55/100
- 14Beat 14X60/100
- 15Beat 06X60/100
- 16Beat 77X62/100
- 17Beat 31Y62/100
- 18Beat 30Y63/100
- 19Beat 35X65/100
- 20Beat 32Y65/100
- 21Beat 21Y65/100
- 22Beat 03X67/100
- 23Beat 26X68/100
- 24Beat 27X69/100
- 25Beat 15X69/100
- 26Beat 09X72/100
- 27Beat 25X73/100
- 28Beat 24X73/100
- 29Beat 02X73/100
- 30Beat 21X75/100
- 31Beat 01X75/100
- 32Beat 17Y76/100
- 33Beat 18Y78/100
- 34Beat 03Y79/100
- 35Beat 02Y79/100
- 36Beat 31X80/100
- 37Beat 24Y80/100
- 38Beat 12X80/100
- 39Beat 05X80/100
- 40Beat 17X81/100
Showing the top 40 of 59 OPD police beats.
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Oakland — FAQ
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No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →