Safest 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 fewest 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 lowest reported volume first
Not the same SDPD beats as the most dangerous neighborhoods in san diego list.
- 1Beat 245100/100
- 2Beat 700100/100
- 3Beat 723100/100
- 4Beat 725100/100
- 5Beat 730100/100
- 6Beat 23599/100
- 7Beat 43999/100
- 8Beat 60299/100
- 9Beat 61699/100
- 10Beat 61799/100
- 11Beat 72199/100
- 12Beat 75099/100
- 13Beat 93299/100
- 14Beat 93699/100
- 15Beat 99999/100
- 16Beat 24698/100
- 17Beat 2798/100
- 18Beat 4798/100
- 19Beat 61898/100
- 20Beat 71298/100
- 21Beat 71398/100
- 22Beat 72498/100
- 23Beat 93398/100
- 24Beat 93598/100
- 25Beat 11297/100
- 26Beat 12697/100
- 27Beat 23197/100
- 28Beat 32397/100
- 29Beat 43197/100
- 30Beat 44397/100
- 31Beat 52597/100
- 32Beat 61297/100
- 33Beat 82897/100
- 34Beat 83597/100
- 35Beat 83797/100
- 36Beat 32596/100
- 37Beat 71096/100
- 38Beat 81496/100
- 39Beat 51895/100
- 40Beat 82795/100
Showing the top 40 of 132 SDPD beats.
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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 →