Vehicle Theft per Capita in San Jose
The map below shows vehicle theft per 1,000 San Jose residents.
The map below shows vehicle theft per 1,000 San Jose residents.
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Your yearly chance of being a victim of vehicle theft in San Jose is about 1 in 526.
Vehicle Theft costs the average San Jose resident about $29 per year.
Crime Grade's vehicle theft map shows the safest places in San Jose in green. The most dangerous areas in San Jose are in red, with moderately safe areas in yellow. Crime rates on the map are weighted by the type and severity of the crime.
The D grade means the rate of vehicle theft is higher than the average US city. San Jose is in the 19th percentile for safety, meaning 81% of cities are safer and 19% of cities are more dangerous. This analysis applies to San Jose's proper boundaries only. See the table on nearby places below for nearby cities.
The rate of vehicle theft in San Jose is 1.901 per 1,000 residents during a standard year. People who live in San Jose generally consider the central part of the city to be the safest.
Your chance of being a victim of vehicle theft in San Jose may be as high as 1 in 397 in the southwest neighborhoods, or as low as 1 in 691 in the central part of the city.
By a simple count ignoring population, more vehicle theft occurs in the southwest parts of San Jose, PR: about 9 per year. The east part of San Jose has fewer cases of vehicle theft with only 2 in a typical year.
The chart below compares the vehicle theft rate in San Jose to the Puerto Rico state average and the national average. All rates are the number of crimes per 1,000 residents in a standard year.
| San Jose, PR: | 1.901 |
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| Puerto Rico: | 2.740 |
| USA: | 2.785 |
Considering only the vehicle theft rate, San Jose is safer than the Puerto Rico state average and safer than the national average.
See how CrimeGrade calculates these grades and rates on the CrimeGrade methodology page.
Vehicle Theft is projected to cost the residents of San Jose about $577,620 in 2025, or roughly $29 per resident. This is part of San Jose's overall Cost of Crime™. See the full cost-of-crime breakdown for San Jose, including every crime type and how San Jose compares to other cities.
Remember that vehicle theft rates are measured per resident. Places with heavy daytime traffic, like shopping districts, airports, and parks, can look more dangerous than they are for the people who live there. See a full guide to reading San Jose's crime maps on the San Jose overall crime page.
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Nearby City | Overall Crime Grade | Violent Crime Grade | Property Crime Grade | Vehicle Theft Crime Grade |
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D- | D- | D- | D | |
D+ | C- | D | D- | |
D- | D | D- | D | |
D- | D | D- | D+ | |
F | D- | F | D- | |
D- | D- | D- | D- | |
C- | C+ | C- | D+ | |
F | D- | F | D+ | |
F | F | F | F | |
D- | D- | D- | D |
San Jose is similar versus other cities of the same size for vehicle theft. The table below compares vehicle theft in cities with comparable overall population.
Similar City | Overall Crime Grade | Violent Crime Grade | Property Crime Grade | Vehicle Theft Crime Grade |
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A | A+ | A+ | D+ | |
C | B | B | D- | |
D- | D | D | F | |
B | C- | C- | D | |
D- | D | D | D- | |
D+ | C+ | C+ | D | |
A | B+ | B+ | B | |
D | C | C | C | |
A | A+ | A+ | B | |
C+ | D+ | D+ | C- |
Safety and school performance are separate topics, but both shape moving decisions. Using SchoolGrade data, schools in San Jose, PR average SchoolGrade of N/A, with N/A% actual proficiency versus N/A% projected; overall, schools N/A. See San Jose schools on SchoolGrade
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