Crime in Oakland, California
Major crime in Oakland is 3.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.6 times for persons crimes and 3.4 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.8% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 8.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Oakland 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 Oakland
The middle half of Oakland residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 178 and 388; the typical (median) resident's is 253. The citywide figure (361) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.7%
- 50–1007.0%
- 100–20026.3%
- 200–40040.9%
- 400+25.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.8% 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.
Oakland against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
1 of the 53 other places of this size has a higher major-crime index than Oakland; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Oakland has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Piedmont (2 mi), is 67% below Oakland's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Oakland
What are the most common crimes in Oakland?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 5,508 a year), theft from vehicle (about 5,414 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 5,251 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 8.2 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. Oakland's figures add up its 354 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Oakland's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 70.2% 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: 443,222. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oakland, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/oakland
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Piedmont2 mi119
- Alameda3 mi240
- Emeryville5 mi574
- Berkeley6 mi277
- Moraga6 mi26
- Orinda6 mi51
- San Leandro7 mi182
- Albany8 mi140