Fruitvale Station is a neighborhood of 10,700 residents in Oakland, about 3 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Fruitvale Station in Oakland safe?
Fruitvale Station is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of F, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 99% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade F here. Oakland as a whole grades F. Every neighborhood in Fruitvale Station grades F.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
1% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Fruitvale Station as a whole, and 99% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Fruitvale Station scores 0.
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 Fruitvale Station, Oakland, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Fruitvale Station in Oakland, 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 Fruitvale Station
Burglaries run high for an F-graded neighborhood. Fruitvale Station has 9.9 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an F-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 4.6.
Robberies and car thefts both run high. In Fruitvale Station, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 17.4 robberies and 27.4 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 and 2.7 nationally.
How Fruitvale Station compares within Oakland
Every part of Fruitvale Station grades D or F on the national scale.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Fruitvale Station has less crime than 11 of the 61 neighborhoods in Oakland. It covers much of the Lynn-Highland Park, Dimond, and Fruitvale Station areas and the Melrose area.
Is crime going up in Oakland?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Oakland as a whole is up 45%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 13 to 19 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 66 to 71 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 46% and property crime fell 28%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
OaklandUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Oakland. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Oakland
Violent, US
Property, Oakland
Property, US
2016
+10%
+4%
-14%
+15%
2017
+0%
+4%
-9%
+12%
2018
-0%
+0%
-17%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-2%
+4%
-22%
-8%
2021
+9%
+6%
-11%
-10%
2022
+14%
+5%
-4%
-6%
2023
+170%
+2%
+49%
-7%
2024
+45%
-4%
+8%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Fruitvale Station
CrimeGrade™ estimates Fruitvale Station has about 140 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and close to Oakland 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.
Assault is the most common crime in Fruitvale Station, about 26% 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.
How Fruitvale Station compares with nearby neighborhoods
Fruitvale Station has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Fernside and Jingletown have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Fruitvale Station. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Fruitvale Station has more crime than 98% of them.
Shops, transit and walkability in Fruitvale Station
Two things set Fruitvale Station apart: it has 18.2 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 44 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more theft and car theft, and they run high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.18.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 86% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 Fruitvale Station: C+ (41 of 100).44 trips an hourUS: noneHigher 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. 70% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (73 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 80% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.2% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 82% 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 Fruitvale Station
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Fruitvale Station about $8,352 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 $80 million a year, or $7,466 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 Fruitvale Station 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
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 Fruitvale Station, Oakland, CA average a SchoolGrade of D-: 21% of students test proficient, against 20% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Fruitvale Station on SchoolGrade
