Crime in Daly City, California
Major crime in Daly City is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 35% lower for persons crimes and 8% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.6% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Daly City for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Daly City
The middle half of Daly City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 69; the typical (median) resident's is 44. The citywide figure (87) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5057.6%
- 50–10030.7%
- 100–2006.4%
- 200–4001.0%
- 400+4.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.6% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with California as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Daly City against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
181 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Daly City; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Daly City has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Broadmoor (1 mi), is 62% below Daly City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Daly City
What are the most common crimes in Daly City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 638 a year), other larceny (about 332 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 229 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Daly City's figures add up its 62 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Daly City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 62.2% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 104,285. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Daly City, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/daly-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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