San Bruno, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Bruno, CA shows violent crime at 256.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,965.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
256.5/100K violent
1965.3/100K property
-27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Bruno, CA
Comparable rate records
San Bruno's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Bruno's 256.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Soledad (257.3), Rohnert Park (258.0), Santee (254.4), San Jacinto (254.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
San Bruno sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 256.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Bruno ranks 288 of 458 — above 170 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -23.0% against the cohort median of 333.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 83.2% of reported property offenses in San Bruno, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (23) and motor vehicle theft (111). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 11.5% of the 901 Part I offenses reported in San Bruno for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 5.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 232.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 256.5 in 2024 (+10.3%). The highest observed value was 422.7 in 2023 and the lowest 232.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate San Bruno's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
San Bruno's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.5 Census sq mi, San Bruno logged 145.2 property and 18.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Bruno's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 901 offenses; mix index 5,650).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-39.3%
422.7 → 256.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.1%
2093.8 → 1965.3/100K
Property offenses lead San Bruno's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
797
1965.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
663
1634.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
111
273.7
-
Burglary
23
56.7
-
Arson
5
12.3
-
Violent Crime
104
256.5
352
Aggravated Assault
75
184.9
-
Robbery
23
56.7
-
Rape
6
14.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
San Bruno Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
San Bruno property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
San Bruno Police Department
Reporting agency for San Bruno NIBRS-participating
San Bruno Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Bruno's 901 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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San Bruno at 256.5/100K violent and 1,965.3/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, San Bruno reported 104 violent crimes and 797 property crimes, for a total of 901 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in San Bruno?
From 2023 to 2024, San Bruno's violent crime rate decreased by 39.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.1%.
What is the most common crime in San Bruno?
The most common crime type in San Bruno is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.6% of all reported crimes (663 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: San Bruno figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Bruno, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.