Safest Neighborhoods in San Francisco (2024)
San Francisco's open crime data doesn't include a reliable neighborhood-level population figure, so these SFPD analysis neighborhoods are ranked by reported incident volume, not a population-adjusted safety rate. A lower ranking here means fewer severity-weighted 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 lowest to highest reported volume
Not the same SFPD analysis neighborhoods shown on the most dangerous neighborhoods in San Francisco list.
- 1MissionVol. 0/100
- 2TenderloinVol. 15/100
- 3South Of MarketVol. 24/100
- 4Bayview Hunters PointVol. 46/100
- 5Financial District/South BeachVol. 51/100
- 6Western AdditionVol. 72/100
- 7Nob HillVol. 76/100
- 8Sunset/ParksideVol. 78/100
- 9Bernal HeightsVol. 79/100
- 10Castro/Upper MarketVol. 80/100
- 11Hayes ValleyVol. 81/100
- 12MarinaVol. 81/100
- 13North BeachVol. 81/100
- 14ExcelsiorVol. 82/100
- 15ChinatownVol. 86/100
- 16West Of Twin PeaksVol. 86/100
- 17Mission BayVol. 87/100
- 18Outer RichmondVol. 87/100
- 19Noe ValleyVol. 88/100
- 20Outer MissionVol. 88/100
- 21Pacific HeightsVol. 88/100
- 22Potrero HillVol. 88/100
- 23Russian HillVol. 88/100
- 24LakeshoreVol. 90/100
- 25PortolaVol. 90/100
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 →