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Oakland Crime Rate — January 2026

Rockridge theft from vehicle ran 87% above its multi-year baseline.

PUBLISHED JANUARY 2026~5 MIN READARCHIVED SNAPSHOT· /oakland/2026/january

Citywide incident volume was down 20.6% against the trailing twelve months in January 2026. The largest moves are summarized to the left and broken out below.

The headline is in Millsmont, where homicide jumped sharply against the prior baseline. The neighborhood page (link in the sidebar) walks through the geography and timing.

FIG 1 · LEAD ANOMALYTHEFT FROM VEHICLE · ROCKRIDGE · 24-MO COUNT
04999μ 65.1 · σ 15.8 · trailing 12-mo2024-022026-01ARCHIVED
Rockridge theft from vehicle, monthly count over 24 months ending in January 2026. The dashed line is the trailing-12-month mean for context. The final bar (highlighted) is January. Frozen view as published.

Sustained drops worth naming

Robbery ran below trend in the trailing 12 months — 40% down from the year before. Sustained shifts often precede a baseline reset; we surface them at the same prominence as spikes.

CITEPublic Analyst.ai, “January 2026 — Oakland,” archived snapshot.Permanent URL: /oakland/2026/january
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