Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside Crime Rate Trends — San Francisco
Oceanview, Merced, and Ingleside are three adjoining residential neighborhoods at San Francisco's southwestern edge — modest, foggy, and one of the most diverse parts of the city. The combined area is shaped by City College of San Francisco, family-oriented streets of small homes, and a quieter pace than the city center.
Five signals across Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside in June 2026 — two one-month below-trend readings and three sustained structural shifts. The shape is broadly downward across property crime, with no spikes or rare events in the mix.
Vandalism and theft from vehicle both ran below trend this month; theft from vehicle also registers as a sustained shift, with the 12-month total down 55.1% against the prior year — 61 incidents versus 136. Vandalism tells a similar story: 60 incidents in the current 12 months against a multi-year baseline of 118.46. Motor vehicle theft and other larceny round out the sustained-shift signals, down 38.1% and 28.4% respectively over the same window. Aggravated assault is the one counter-move, up 56.2% year-over-year to 25 incidents — a category worth watching as everything else pulls lower.
Notable signals 2
Vandalism
The past 12 months saw 60 incidents — about 49% below the 118 average from prior years.
Theft from Vehicle
The past 12 months saw 61 incidents — about 73% below the 222 average from prior years.
All categories, last 24 months
Each panel: recent monthly count vs. trailing 12-month context. MoM is the most recent month vs. the one before; 12mo YoY compares the trailing year to the year before that.
What's been quietly true for a year
Spikes get attention. Sustained shifts shape policy. These are multi-quarter patterns where the past 12-month total differs meaningfully from the year before — they often precede the baseline resetting.
- Theft from Vehicle has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 61, down 55% from 136 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Vandalism has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 60, down 42% from 104 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Motor Vehicle Theft has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 65, down 38% from 105 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through June 2026, with a likely range we're 95% confident the actual count will fall inside. Categories with too little recent volume — or violent categories at the neighborhood level — show no forecast and are surfaced through signals above instead. See the methodology page for the gating rules.
Aggravated Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Arson
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
Burglary
Homicide
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Motor Vehicle Theft
Other Larceny
Robbery
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Sexual Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Theft from Vehicle
Vandalism
How Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month vandalism volume — a pragmatic v1 of peer matching. Demographic / housing-stock peer matching isn't built yet (we deliberately don't ingest income or race data alongside crime). Volume similarity has the right intuition: “neighborhoods experiencing comparable vandalism levels.”
Inner Sunset
60 incidents over the past 12 months — 0 below Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside's 60.
Open page →Lone Mountain/USF
57 incidents over the past 12 months — 3 below Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside's 60.
Open page →Noe Valley
73 incidents over the past 12 months — 13 above Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside's 60.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside, excluding generic crime taxonomy. Useful as texture — what kinds of specifics show up here that don't show up elsewhere.
Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality
Distribution of bucketed incidents in this neighborhood across the full analysis window. Useful for routine context — shopping-strip thefts vs. late-night assaults read very differently when you can see when each typically happens.
How we built this page
Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page
Incident data is pulled from SFPD's open dataset on DataSF, mapped to 10 NIBRS-aligned categories, and aggregated to neighborhood × category × month.Anomalies are surfaced using strict thresholds (~p < 0.01). Forecasts are Prophet with low-count gating; violent categories at the neighborhood level skip the forecast and show rare-event / streak signals instead.
Spike rule: 12-mo total > baseline mean + 2.5σ AND ≥ 20 incidents AND 6-mo confirms. Drop rule: 12-mo total < baseline mean − 2.5σ AND baseline mean ≥ 20. Rare event: any incident in the last 90 days, no prior comparable in ≥ 5 years.