Cambrian Park, San Jose, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Cambrian Park is a neighborhood of 82,800 residents in San Jose, about 6 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Cambrian Park?
Violent crime in Cambrian Park sits near the national middle: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 57% of Americans live. Assaults make up 88% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. San Jose as a whole grades B for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 829 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Cambrian Park as a whole, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Cambrian Park scores 829.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Cambrian Park, San Jose, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Cambrian Park in San Jose, 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 about violent crime in Cambrian Park
Robbery stands out among neighborhoods graded A for violent crime. For the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded A for violent crime, the figure is 0.37 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; Cambrian Park has 0.74.
How Cambrian Park compares within San Jose
Every part of Cambrian Park where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Cambrian Park run from A+ to B+.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Cambrian Park has less violent crime than 16 of the 20 neighborhoods in San Jose. It covers much of the Cambrian Park area.
Is violent crime going up in San Jose?
Reported violent crime in San Jose as a whole has risen 31% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.4 to 5.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
San JoseUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve San Jose. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, San Jose
Violent, US
2016
-15%
+4%
2017
-9%
+4%
2018
-3%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-2%
+4%
2021
+21%
+6%
2022
+16%
+5%
2023
+38%
+2%
2024
+31%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Cambrian Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Cambrian Park has about 9.6 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 28% less than the US as a whole and 40% less than San Jose as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Cambrian Park, about 88% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in San Jose
The San Jose Police Department polices Cambrian Park; these figures cover San Jose as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In San Jose as a whole, 39% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 43% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (39%)
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.
Violent crime in Cambrian Park and nearby neighborhoods
Cambrian Park has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Loma Linda and Almaden Valley have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Cambrian Park. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Cambrian Park is safer than 75% of them.
Nightlife, transit and walkability in Cambrian Park
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Cambrian Park apart: it has 0.1 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report less assault and robbery, yet assault and robbery run higher here than that would suggest.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Lower than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Cambrian Park: C- (25 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 75% 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 assault. 56% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (33 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 52% 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.35% of residentsUS: 24%Lower 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 violent crime costs Cambrian Park
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Cambrian Park about $55 million a year, or $670 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $14 million, or $169 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
