San Francisco crime data API

Consumer crime facts for San Francisco

97,100 police-reported incidents from the San Francisco open-data portal, newest record 2026-11-01, normalized to the same schema as every other city.

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Example: within 500 m of Union Square

GET /v1/stats?lat=37.788&lon=-122.4075&radius_m=500

4,667 incidents in the dataset window. Top categories:

CategoryIncidents
theft1,765
public_order486
assault481
drugs396
other377
vandalism206

Source: San Francisco open-data portal. Newest city record: 2026-11-01. Figures computed from our database snapshot dated 2026-11-03; live numbers via the API.

Endpoints

GET /v1/incidents?lat=&lon=&radius_m=500&from=&to=&category=&limit=100&cursor=&format=json|geojson
GET /v1/incidents?address=1+Market+St+San+Francisco&...        (or bbox=minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat)
GET /v1/stats?lat=&lon=&radius_m=500&from=&to=&category=            (or address=, bbox=)
GET /v1/compare?points=lat,lon;lat,lon&radius_m=500             (2-5 points)
GET /v1/score?lat=&lon=&radius_m=500                       (0-100 incident density score and A-F grade; or address=)
GET /v1/usage                                              (your plan, calls used, upgrade links)
POST /v1/keys                                               (free key; optional JSON body {"email": ...})
POST /v1/keys/rotate                                        (new key for the same plan; the old key stops working)
GET /v1/cities

Categories: homicide sexual_offense robbery assault burglary vehicle_theft theft_from_vehicle theft fraud vandalism weapons drugs dui trespass harassment public_order traffic non_criminal other

Licence

ODC PDDL (public domain). Source updates: daily.

Data comes from each city's open-data portal under the licence shown. It is police-reported incident data, not convictions, and can be revised by the source. Compared with the FBI API · Terms · Refunds · Privacy · DPA · Contact
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