Outer Mission, San Francisco, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Outer Mission is a neighborhood of 10,200 residents in San Francisco, about 4 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Outer Mission?
Violent crime in Outer Mission runs higher than in most US neighborhoods: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 64% of Americans live. Assaults make up 71% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. San Francisco as a whole grades B+ for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 787 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
36% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Outer Mission as a whole, and 64% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Outer Mission scores 787.
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 Outer Mission, San Francisco, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Outer Mission in San Francisco, 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 Outer Mission
One weak spot: robbery. It grades C- in Outer Mission, worse than in the neighborhoods where 87% of Americans live, against A- for violent crime as a whole.
Simple assaults are uncommon. Outer Mission has simple assaults at a small fraction of the US rate: 2.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
How Outer Mission compares within San Francisco
Low violent crime is the norm across Outer Mission: 92% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Outer Mission run from A to C+.
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A or B 92%C 8%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Outer Mission has less violent crime than 18 of the 43 neighborhoods in San Francisco. It covers much of the Excelsior, Crocker Amazon, and St Marys Park areas.
Is violent crime going up in San Francisco?
Reported violent crime in San Francisco as a whole has fallen 14% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.8 to 5.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 15%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
San FranciscoUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve San Francisco. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, San Francisco
Violent, US
2016
+5%
+4%
2017
+6%
+4%
2018
+4%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-19%
+4%
2021
-0%
+6%
2022
-3%
+5%
2023
+0%
+2%
2024
-14%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Outer Mission
CrimeGrade™ estimates Outer Mission has about 4.7 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 65% less than the US as a whole and 60% less than San Francisco 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 Outer Mission, about 71% 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.
Violent crime in Outer Mission and nearby neighborhoods
Outer Mission has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Outer Mission. 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, Outer Mission is safer than 75% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Outer Mission apart: it has 95% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 25 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more robbery than places with only one of them, and it runs high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.95% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.62 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 77% 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.B (57 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 70% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Outer Mission: C+ (45 of 100).25 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 75% 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 Outer Mission
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Outer Mission about $8.0 million a year, or $780 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $1.6 million, or $159 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. Outer Mission is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
