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Crime reported by the San Diego County Sheriff's Office

The San Diego County Sheriff's Office reported 1,283 violent offenses to the FBI in 2024, over the 558,533 residents it serves — 229.7 per 100,000. This is that agency’s record, not a figure for San Diego County as a place.

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Identifiers

ORI
CA0370000
County
SAN DIEGO
Reporting
NIBRS

The record

Reported figures for San Diego County Sheriff's Office, each linked to its source
Violent crime rate · 20241,283 offenses over the 558,533 residents this agency served in 2024.229.7offenses per 100,000 residents served
Property crime rate · 20242,530 offenses over the 558,533 residents this agency served in 2024.453.0offenses per 100,000 residents served
Residents served · 2024The population this agency covers, not the population of a place. It changes every year, and each year’s rate divides by that year’s figure.558,533residents, as the FBI attributes them to this agency in 2024

Year by year · 20192024

Only years this agency reported. The last two columns are what separate a quiet year from a thin record: how many of the twelve months it submitted, and how the year compares with the most it has ever reported.

Violent crime

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Violent crime reported by the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, by year
YearOffensesRateMonthsShare of its best year
20191,499306.01257.5%
20201,435299.91255.0%
20212,609537.912100.0%
20221,915373.61273.4%
20231,634314.71262.6%
20241,283229.71249.2%

Property crime

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Property crime reported by the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, by year
YearOffensesRateMonthsShare of its best year
20194,330883.91245.9%
20203,932821.81241.7%
20219,4241,942.812100.0%
20225,8831,147.81262.4%
20233,294634.41235.0%
20242,530453.01226.8%

Nearest sheriff’s offices

By straight-line distance between the coordinates the FBI publishes for each agency, among those large enough for a page. Same kind only: the nearest thing to a city department is another city department, and setting one beside the county around it would invite a comparison between two different kinds of place.

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Agencies nearest the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, with what each reported
CountyDistanceViolent rateYear
Riverside County, CA66 mi217.52024
Orange County, CA73 mi235.82024
Imperial County, CA82 mi316.52024
Los Angeles County, CA118 mi532.02024
Yuma County, AZ127 mi231.72024
San Bernardino County, CA131 mi452.52024

This agency reported 229.7 per 100,000 in 2024, over 558,533 residents. A rate beside a rate is two different populations, and a neighbour whose latest year differs is not a comparison of the same year at all.

On comparing this with another agency

The FBI cautions against ranking jurisdictions against one another, and the caution applies to two of these pages side by side as much as to a list. We publish the rate, the count, the population it divides by and how much of its own record each agency reported, together on the same row, and we say that a figure describes what was reported to police rather than what happened. Nothing here is ranked on a measure the FBI did not publish for it. Its wording is on the ranking page, quoted in full, and at https://ucr.fbi.gov/cautionagainstranking.pdf.

What this data cannot show

  • An agency is not a place. This is what the San Diego County Sheriff's Office reported for the population it serves. A city with a transit or university force as well is not the sum of them, and a sheriff’s office covers the part of a county nobody else polices.
  • Nothing here is added to a county, state or national total. Two agencies can serve overlapping populations, and summed across a state they reach 101% of its covered population at the median and 128% in Louisiana. The state figures on this site come from the FBI’s own state series, which is a different call.
  • Each year’s rate divides by that year’s population, which the FBI publishes beside the counts. Every agency’s population changes annually, by up to 11.4%.
  • A year the agency reported nothing is absent rather than shown as zero. The FBI returns 0 for a month nobody submitted and the same 0 for a month in which nothing happened, and nothing in the response separates them.
  • Violent and property crime are the FBI’s own aggregations, never sums of component offenses computed here. Offenses are those reported to and recorded by this agency: not convictions, and not what was never reported to police.
  • Agencies serving fewer than 25,000 people have no page, because a rate over a few thousand residents moves by a third on one incident.

Sources

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