Brisbane is a city of 5,410 in San Mateo County, about 6 miles south of downtown San Francisco · Updated November 2026
Is Brisbane, CA safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Brisbane is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Brisbane sits near the middle: 45% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 55% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A- to B; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 810 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
45% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Brisbane as a whole, and 55% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Brisbane scores 810.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Brisbane, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Brisbane, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Brisbane
One weak spot: burglary. It grades B- in Brisbane, worse than in the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live, against A- for property crime as a whole.
Crime rates and types in Brisbane
CrimeGrade™ estimates Brisbane has about 39 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and close to California.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in Brisbane, about 32% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Brisbane
Brisbane has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 45% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (32%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for vandalism.
How Brisbane compares with nearby cities
Brisbane has less crime than 5 of its 9 nearest cities.
Two things set Brisbane apart: it has 7.0 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 134 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.7.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 99% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.134 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 98% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 55% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C+ (41 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 88% of US city residents
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Brisbane: D+ (24 of 100).15 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 89% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.15.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 88% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.50% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 83% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Brisbane
Crime costs Brisbane about $1,196 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about the same as the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $8.2 million a year, or $1,523 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$290,000
$53
Rape
$180,000
$33
Robbery
$170,000
$31
Assault
$940,000
$174
Burglary
$260,000
$48
Theft
$300,000
$56
Vehicle theft
$250,000
$47
Arson
$64,000
$12
Vandalism
$200,000
$36
Total
$2.7 million
$491
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Brisbane means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Brisbane, CA average a SchoolGrade of B+: 44% of students test proficient, against 42% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Brisbane on SchoolGrade
