Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in San Francisco (2024)
San Francisco's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these SFPD analysis neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The SFPD analysis neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other San Francisco SFPD analysis neighborhoods.
Volume, not a safety rate. SFPD analysis neighborhood 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 SFPD analysis neighborhood (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 Francisco 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 SFPD analysis neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in san francisco list.
- 1Mission0/100
- 2Tenderloin15/100
- 3South Of Market24/100
- 4Bayview Hunters Point46/100
- 5Financial District/South Beach51/100
- 6Western Addition72/100
- 7Nob Hill76/100
- 8Sunset/Parkside78/100
- 9Bernal Heights79/100
- 10Castro/Upper Market80/100
- 11North Beach81/100
- 12Marina81/100
- 13Hayes Valley81/100
- 14Excelsior82/100
- 15West Of Twin Peaks86/100
- 16Chinatown86/100
- 17Outer Richmond87/100
- 18Mission Bay87/100
- 19Russian Hill88/100
- 20Potrero Hill88/100
- 21Pacific Heights88/100
- 22Outer Mission88/100
- 23Noe Valley88/100
- 24Portola90/100
- 25Lakeshore90/100
- 26Lone Mountain/Usf91/100
- 27Inner Sunset91/100
- 28Haight Ashbury91/100
- 29Visitacion Valley92/100
- 30Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside92/100
- 31Golden Gate Park93/100
- 32Inner Richmond94/100
- 33Presidio Heights95/100
- 34Japantown95/100
- 35Treasure Island97/100
- 36Glen Park97/100
- 37Twin Peaks98/100
- 38Mclaren Park99/100
- 39Seacliff100/100
- 40Presidio100/100
Showing the top 40 of 41 SFPD analysis neighborhoods.
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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 →