Safest 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 fewest 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 lowest reported volume first
Not the same OPD police beats as the most dangerous neighborhoods in oakland list.
- 1Beat 13Y100/100
- 2Beat 13X99/100
- 3Beat 16X98/100
- 4Beat 25Y98/100
- 5Beat 05Y97/100
- 6Beat 35Y95/100
- 7Beat 13Z93/100
- 8Beat 99X93/100
- 9Beat 16Y92/100
- 10Beat 31Z92/100
- 11Beat 11X90/100
- 12Beat 10X89/100
- 13Beat 10Y87/100
- 14Beat 28X87/100
- 15Beat 18X86/100
- 16Beat 14Y85/100
- 17Beat 12Y84/100
- 18Beat 22Y84/100
- 19Beat 22X83/100
- 20Beat 17X81/100
- 21Beat 05X80/100
- 22Beat 12X80/100
- 23Beat 24Y80/100
- 24Beat 31X80/100
- 25Beat 02Y79/100
- 26Beat 03Y79/100
- 27Beat 18Y78/100
- 28Beat 17Y76/100
- 29Beat 01X75/100
- 30Beat 21X75/100
- 31Beat 02X73/100
- 32Beat 24X73/100
- 33Beat 25X73/100
- 34Beat 09X72/100
- 35Beat 15X69/100
- 36Beat 27X69/100
- 37Beat 26X68/100
- 38Beat 03X67/100
- 39Beat 21Y65/100
- 40Beat 32Y65/100
Showing the top 40 of 59 OPD police beats.
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Safest 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 →