Crime in San Pablo, California
Major crime in San Pablo is 32% above the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 34% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.5% 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.
Check an address in San Pablo
Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 5.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in San Pablo 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 San Pablo
The middle half of San Pablo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 81 and 168; the typical (median) resident's is 104. The citywide figure (132) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10046.2%
- 100–20043.3%
- 200–4007.9%
- 400+2.7%
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 6.5% 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.
San Pablo against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
178 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than San Pablo; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
San Pablo has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Richmond (1 mi), is 17% above San Pablo's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in San Pablo
What are the most common crimes in San Pablo?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 165 a year), theft from vehicle (about 162 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 156 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 5.2 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. San Pablo's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- San Pablo's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 79.7% 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: 32,373. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in San Pablo, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/san-pablo
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Richmond1 mi155
- East Richmond Heights2 mi96
- El Sobrante3 mi177
- Tara Hills3 mi92
- El Cerrito4 mi173
- Pinole4 mi75
- Hercules5 mi34
- Albany6 mi140