Colma is a town of 1,860 in San Mateo County, about 7 miles south of downtown San Francisco · Updated November 2026
Is Colma, CA safe?
Crime in Colma is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of D+. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 88% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Colma. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B against F.
D+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 289 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Colma as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Colma scores 289.
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 Colma, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Colma, 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 Colma
Thefts run high for a D-graded city. Colma has 600.4 thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a D-graded US city, the figure is 17.2.
Burglaries and car thefts both run high. In Colma, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 15.1 burglaries and 16.6 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 2.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Colma
CrimeGrade™ estimates Colma has about 702 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for 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.
Theft is the most common crime in Colma, about 86% 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 Colma
Colma has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Colma, 2% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 44% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (90%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Stores and businesses (37%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (31%)
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.
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Colma about $10,257 a year per household, more than triple 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 $13 million a year, or $7,190 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$200,000
$107
Rape
$120,000
$63
Robbery
$430,000
$233
Assault
$960,000
$516
Burglary
$250,000
$135
Theft
$5.7 million
$3,082
Vehicle theft
$470,000
$255
Arson
$23,000
$12
Vandalism
$300,000
$159
Total
$8.5 million
$4,563
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 Colma 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 Colma, CA average a SchoolGrade of C+: 35% of students test proficient, against 36% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Colma on SchoolGrade
