Burlingame Gate is a neighborhood of 5,320 residents in Burlingame, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Burlingame Gate in Burlingame safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Burlingame Gate is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Burlingame Gate sits near the middle: 53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against B+. Burlingame as a whole grades A-. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to B+; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 851 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Burlingame Gate as a whole, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Burlingame Gate scores 851.
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 Burlingame Gate, Burlingame, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Burlingame Gate in Burlingame, 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
Crime rates and types in Burlingame Gate
CrimeGrade™ estimates Burlingame Gate has about 20 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 46% less than the US as a whole and 43% less than Burlingame as a whole.
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.
Theft makes up about 36% of crime reported in Burlingame Gate. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Burlingame
The Burlingame Police Department polices Burlingame Gate; these figures cover Burlingame as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Burlingame as a whole, 37% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 54% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (37%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (50%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Other places (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (37%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Burlingame Gate compares with nearby neighborhoods
Burlingame Gate has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Mills Estates has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Burlingame Gate. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Burlingame Gate is safer than 96% of them.
One thing sets Burlingame Gate apart: it has 17.9 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and car theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
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 Burlingame Gate: C- (28 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.17.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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. 54% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C+ (40 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 57% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.78% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 66% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 Burlingame Gate
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Burlingame Gate about $473 a year per household, 61% less than 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 $2.4 million a year, or $459 per resident.
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 Burlingame Gate 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 Burlingame Gate, Burlingame, CA average a SchoolGrade of A+: 69% of students test proficient, against 65% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Burlingame Gate on SchoolGrade
