San Leandro, CA has a F safety grade (15/100) with a violent crime rate of 549 per 100,000, 56% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
San Leandro, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 84,200 residents, San Leandro is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
San Leandro, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 56% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, San Leandro, CA shows violent crime at 548.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,922.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
548.7/100K violent
3922.8/100K property
+56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for San Leandro, CA
Comparable rate records
San Leandro's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to San Leandro's 548.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Paramount (547.1), Palmdale (551.0), Ukiah (552.9), Bakersfield (554.6). 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 Leandro reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 548.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, San Leandro ranks 108 of 458 — above 350 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +67.0% against the cohort median of 328.5. 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 54.4% of reported property offenses in San Leandro, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (484) and motor vehicle theft (1,022). 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 12.3% of the 3,765 Part I offenses reported in San Leandro for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 4.8 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 517.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 548.7 in 2024 (+6.0%). The highest observed value was 674.1 in 2023 and the lowest 517.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate San Leandro'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
San Leandro's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 13.3 Census sq mi, San Leandro logged 247.9 property and 34.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
San Leandro leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,250.
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-34.6%
6000.8 → 3922.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-18.6%
674.1 → 548.7/100K
Property offenses lead San Leandro's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs CA
Property Crime
3,303
3922.8
1711
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
1,797
2134.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,022
1213.8
-
-
Burglary
484
574.8
-
-
Arson
11
13.1
-
-
Violent Crime
462
548.7
352
476.8
Robbery
236
280.3
-
-
Aggravated Assault
206
244.7
-
-
Rape
16
19
-
-
Murder
4
4.8
-
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San Leandro 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 Leandro property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
San Leandro Police Department
Reporting agency for San Leandro Summary Reporting (SRS)
San Leandro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind San Leandro's 3,765 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in California
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San Leandro at 548.7/100K violent and 3,922.8/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, San Leandro reported 462 violent crimes and 3,303 property crimes, for a total of 3,765 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in San Leandro?
From 2023 to 2024, San Leandro's violent crime rate decreased by 18.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 34.6%.
What is the most common crime in San Leandro?
The most common crime type in San Leandro is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.7% of all reported crimes (1,797 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: San Leandro's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 San Leandro, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.