Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in San Diego (2024)
San Diego's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these SDPD beats are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The SDPD beats at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other San Diego SDPD beats.
Volume, not a safety rate. SDPD 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 SDPD 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 San Diego 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 SDPD beats as the safest neighborhoods in san diego list.
- 1Beat 5210/100
- 2Beat 12240/100
- 3Beat 31544/100
- 4Beat 81346/100
- 5Beat 52451/100
- 6Beat 62752/100
- 7Beat 61154/100
- 8Beat 24257/100
- 9Beat 11560/100
- 10Beat 62361/100
- 11Beat 52361/100
- 12Beat 31364/100
- 13Beat 12465/100
- 14Beat 61468/100
- 15Beat 62469/100
- 16Beat 32169/100
- 17Beat 51271/100
- 18Beat 11172/100
- 19Beat 62176/100
- 20Beat 61377/100
- 21Beat 44177/100
- 22Beat 31178/100
- 23Beat 82679/100
- 24Beat 51179/100
- 25Beat 50479/100
- 26Beat 54180/100
- 27Beat 43780/100
- 28Beat 11681/100
- 29Beat 93482/100
- 30Beat 44682/100
- 31Beat 52984/100
- 32Beat 45184/100
- 33Beat 23384/100
- 34Beat 11484/100
- 35Beat 82185/100
- 36Beat 51785/100
- 37Beat 12185/100
- 38Beat 83486/100
- 39Beat 43886/100
- 40Beat 23486/100
Showing the top 40 of 132 SDPD beats.
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in San Diego — 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 →