• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Luba Muzichenko San Francisco Real Estate

San Francisco SF Realtor

San Francisco Safest Neighborhood

How to Tell You're in a Safe SF Neighborhood

December 15, 2009 By Luba

crimemapping.jpg
I hate to say it, but the title of this post is kinda of misleading.  It’s actually a bit of a trick question. 
Why?
Well, everyone has a different idea of what makes a neighborhood “safe.”  Frankly, each person has a different tolerance to risk. 
I live in the Outer Sunset where we seem have a higher than average amount of auto break-ins and thefts and grafitti tends to be fairly common (my fence AND my garbage can got tagged recently AND I chased down two teens I saw tagging on EVERYTHING they saw on the street) but I still tend to consider it a “safe” neighborhood.  Other neighborhoods have higher rates of drug dealing or prostitution.  Others, still, have a high rate of murders and homicides.   Others still have gang violence. 
San Francisco is diverse, and if you’re thinking about buying real estate here, you really need to examine YOUR tolerances. 
What YOU consider to be a safe neighborhood depends primarily on your personal aversion to risk.  Your standard of safety is not necessarily my standard of safety.  (Though I’d be so bold as to go out on a limb and say that most people feel less safe in areas with high murder rates, just sayin’.)
But that doesn’t mean that you need to jeopardize your safety by wandering the streets at night looking for crime. 
To find out about crime in SF, you need only look as far as your computer!
You can easily find statistics about San Francisco crime by pointing, clicking and filling out some parameters. 
CrimeMapping.com, according to their site, “is a site developed by The Omega Group to help law enforcement agencies throughout North America provide the public with valuable information about recent crime activity in their neighborhood. Our goal is to assist police departments in reducing crime through a better-informed citizenry. Creating more self-reliance among community members is a great benefit to community oriented policing efforts everywhere and has been proven effective in combating crime.”
CrimeReports.com claims to be the world leader in online crime mapping, with over 600 law enforcement partners across North America. It also features sex offender data and allows you to create email alerts about crime in a specific area.
SF Crime Maps is a site that’s hosted by our very own sfgov.org.  To use the site, check out the various FAQ’s and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click “I Agree.”  From there, click the crimes you want to search for (you’ll notice homicides are conspicuously missing from the list!) and select the area parameters.  You can search up to the last 90 days. 
San Francisco Crime Blog picks up where SF Crime Maps leaves off.  The SF Crime Blog covers a variety of crimes in the blog section but really focuses on the murders that have occurred in SF.  In addition to a countdown of the homicides that have occurred, you’ll find a map that details those homicides for 2007 and 2008. *While I liked the format of this blog, a little birdie dropped a note in the comments that informed me of some potential copyright type issues surrounding the blog, and since I HATE it when people copy my content and put it all over the internet (y’all know who you are), I removed the link.*
Once you have access to statistics, you can make your own decisions whether the neighborhood you want to live in is safe enough for you.

Tags: San+Francisco+Safe+Neighborhoods,+SF+Safe+Neighborhoods,+SF+Crime,+San+Francisco+Crime,+SF+Crime+Statistics, SF+Real+Estate+Blog, San+Francisco+Real+Estate+Blog

Filed Under: Misc Musings from Your San Francisco Realtor, San Francisco Local Resources, San Francisco News and Events, San Francisco Places Tagged With: blog, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Realtor, San Francisco Safe Neighborhood, San Francisco Safest Neighborhood, SF real esate, SF Realtor, SF Safest Neighborhood, SF San Neighborhood

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Looking for Love (More Outer Sunset Street Art)
  • San Francisco Real Estate Update – March 2011
  • Watching Out for Sharks in the Outer Sunset
  • Tulips and Nervous Virgins in the Outer Sunset
  • San Francisco Real Estate Blog Back in No Time

Archives

  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007

Categories

  • Green Living in San Francisco
  • Misc Musings from Your San Francisco Realtor
  • Mobile Post from Your San Francisco Realtor
  • San Francisco Absorption Rate
  • San Francisco Historical Photos
  • San Francisco History
  • San Francisco Local Resources
  • San Francisco Luxury Real Estate
  • San Francisco Mortgage & Financing Info
  • San Francisco Neighborhoods
  • San Francisco News and Events
  • San Francisco Photos
  • San Francisco Places
  • San Francisco Property Profile
  • San Francisco Real Estate
  • San Francisco Real Estate Blog Reader Asks
  • San Francisco Real Estate Fast Facts
  • San Francisco Real Estate Info for Buyers
  • San Francisco Real Estate Info for Sellers
  • San Francisco Real Estate Market Conditions
  • San Francisco Real Estate Resources
  • San Francisco TIC (Tenancy in Common) Info
  • San Francisco Videos
  • Sold Properties
  • Uncategorized
  • Weekend San Francisco Real Estate Linkage

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2021 · Luba Muzichenko. All Rights Reserved.

7ads6x98y