San Bernardino County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report

What the latest available police data (2021–2025) shows for businesses in San Bernardino County — a sourced breakdown of violent crime, property crime, and city-level trends, compiled from the San Bernardino Police Department’s own published statistics, the California Department of Justice, and U.S. Census figures.

San Bernardino County is home to roughly 2.22 million residents (U.S. Census Bureau, July 1, 2025 estimate) across the largest county by land area in the contiguous United States, patrolled by a mix of the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner’s Department (SBSO), which contracts with many smaller cities and unincorporated areas, and independently-staffed municipal departments in the county’s larger cities. The county’s largest independently-staffed department, San Bernardino Police Department (SBPD), publishes a detailed year-by-year crime-statistics report directly on the city’s website, which we use as the primary city-level data source below. County-wide figures come from the California Department of Justice’s Open Justice data.

Violent Crime in San Bernardino County

San Bernardino Police Department, serving a city of 222,044 residents (U.S. Census Bureau, July 1, 2025 estimate), publishes year-over-year crime statistics directly. Its most recent published data shows:

Source: San Bernardino Police Department, “Crime Statistics” citywide report (full calendar-year figures, data through 2024).

SBPD’s own data shows violent crime falling in each of the two most recent complete years — down from 1,138 in 2022 to 1,002 in 2023 to 853 in 2024, a 15% year-over-year drop in the most recent complete year. Year-to-date figures through May 2025 (834 violent crimes, essentially flat versus the same period in 2024) suggest that decline has leveled off rather than reversed.

County-wide, CA DOJ’s Open Justice data (as reported through the county’s own Community Indicators platform) shows the opposite short-term signal at the aggregate level: San Bernardino County’s overall violent crime rate rose 33% from 2023 to 2024. That single-year jump exceeds the threshold we treat as a probable reporting artifact rather than a real trend (see Methodology) — and it directly conflicts with SBPD’s own published data for the county’s largest independently-staffed department, which shows violent crime falling, not rising, over the same period. We’re flagging that conflict explicitly rather than picking one number to lead with.

Source: California Department of Justice, Open Justice “Crimes & Clearances” dataset, via San Bernardino County Community Indicators (indicators.sbcounty.gov).

Property Crime & Commercial Burglary

SBPD’s report also breaks out property crime and commercial-relevant categories:

Source: San Bernardino Police Department, same report as above.

Burglary — the category most relevant to commercial and construction-site security — fell 7.5% from 2023 to 2024 (493 to 456) after rising in 2022. Year-to-date 2025 figures show burglary down a further 16% versus the same period in 2024, and motor vehicle theft down 21% year-to-date, continuing a multi-year decline from the 2021 peak of 842.

County-wide, CA DOJ data shows San Bernardino County’s property crime rate rose 7% from 2023 to 2024 — a smaller, more plausible move than the violent-crime figure, though it still runs in the opposite direction from SBPD’s own city-level burglary and motor-vehicle-theft trend, another reminder that a single county-wide property-crime figure can mask what’s happening in any one jurisdiction.

Source: California Department of Justice, Open Justice, via San Bernardino County Community Indicators.

City-by-City Comparison Within the County

Sources: California Department of Justice via San Bernardino County Community Indicators; San Bernardino Police Department Crime Statistics report; U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts.

San Bernardino PD is the county’s largest independently-staffed municipal department, and its data points the opposite direction from the county-wide aggregate in both violent and property crime for the same 2023-to-2024 window. We were not able to source a comparable live, citable breakdown from a second independently-staffed city department (such as Fontana PD or Ontario PD) for this compilation, so this comparison covers one city, not the county’s full roster of independently-staffed departments.

What the Data Means for Local Businesses

• Trust the city-level data over the raw county aggregate for recent trends. San Bernardino County’s countywide violent-crime rate shows a 33% jump from 2023 to 2024 — a move large enough that we treat it as a likely reporting-methodology artifact (see Methodology) rather than a real 33% increase in risk. The county’s own largest independently-staffed department shows violent crime falling 15% over the same period.
• Burglary and vehicle theft are both trending down at the city level. SBPD’s own numbers show burglary down 7.5% and motor vehicle theft down 2% from 2023 to 2024, with year-to-date 2025 figures showing further declines in both — a more directly relevant signal for commercial and construction-site security planning than the county aggregate.
• A reporting-methodology transition is a live factor in this county right now. SBPD moved from summary (UCR) to incident-based (IBR/NIBRS) crime reporting in 2025, which can shift how crimes are counted independent of any real change in crime levels. Businesses comparing this page’s 2025 partial-year figures to earlier full years should read that comparison with that transition in mind.

Methodology — How These Figures Were Compiled

All figures on this page were pulled directly from the originating source during research for this article (2026). We used:

• San Bernardino Police Department’s “Crime Statistics” citywide report, the department’s own published year-by-year data, covering full calendar years 2021 through 2024 plus preliminary year-to-date figures through May 2025.
• California Department of Justice’s Open Justice “Crimes & Clearances” dataset, as republished on the county’s own Community Indicators platform (indicators.sbcounty.gov), for countywide rates.
• California DOJ’s “Crime in California 2025” report (published July 2026) for statewide context. This is the current edition; we did not use the superseded 2024 edition.
• U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts (July 1, 2025 estimate) for county and city population figures.

Agency verification. Every agency cited on this page was confirmed as a California agency under the FBI’s ORI convention for San Bernardino County (the CA036 prefix — San Bernardino Police Department is CA0361000, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is CA0360000) before its data was used, a safeguard against pulling data from a same-named agency in another state.

Submission-gap check. CA DOJ’s “Crime in California 2025” report lists, by name, every agency that could not submit a full year of 2025 data. Neither the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department nor San Bernardino Police Department appears on that list — unlike San Diego County’s Sheriff’s Department, which was unable to report data for January through June 2025 due to a records-system issue, an example of the kind of reporting gap we specifically checked for in this county too.

The 33% county-wide violent-crime figure. We checked this jump against the threshold we treat as a likely reporting-lag or methodology artifact rather than a genuine one-year change, per our standard practice after finding a similar issue in a neighboring county’s sheriff data. We could not access a monthly-level breakdown of the county-wide CA DOJ aggregate to isolate which agency or agencies drove the spike. What we could verify is that San Bernardino PD’s own full-year figures — for the county’s largest independently-staffed department — move in the opposite direction over the same period, and that SBPD itself was transitioning to incident-based (IBR/NIBRS) crime reporting during this period, a change CA DOJ’s own 2025 report notes can shift year-over-year comparability. We’ve presented both figures rather than dropping the county aggregate, but we anchor the “what this means” section on the SBPD city-level data as the more reliable recent signal.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is crime in San Bernardino County going up or down?
It depends which figure you look at. San Bernardino PD’s own data — for the county’s largest independently-staffed department — shows violent crime down 15% and property crime down 4% from 2023 to 2024. The county-wide CA DOJ aggregate shows violent crime up 33% over the same period, a jump large enough that we treat it as a likely reporting-methodology artifact rather than a real trend; see Methodology.

Is there an official San Bernardino County-wide crime statistic?
Yes — CA DOJ publishes county-wide rates through its Open Justice data, referenced here via the county’s own Community Indicators platform. We found a large, likely-artifactual jump in the most recent county-wide violent-crime figure and have flagged it rather than reported it at face value.

Which is San Bernardino County’s largest city?
The city of San Bernardino, whose police department is covered in detail on this page.

How often is this page updated?
This page reflects the most recently published data from each source as of the compilation date noted above. San Bernardino PD publishes updated year-to-date crime statistics through the year, with full-year figures typically finalized in the following year.

Sources

• San Bernardino Police Department — Crime Statistics citywide report (sanbernardino.gov)
• California Department of Justice — Open Justice “Crimes & Clearances” dataset, via San Bernardino County Community Indicators (indicators.sbcounty.gov)
• California Department of Justice — “Crime in California 2025” (published July 2026), data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov
• U.S. Census Bureau — QuickFacts, San Bernardino County and city of San Bernardino, California (July 1, 2025 estimate)

More California County Crime Reports

This page is part of a series of sourced county-level crime reports covering Southern California. Each one is compiled the same way, directly from California Department of Justice data.

• Los Angeles County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report
• Orange County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report
• San Diego County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report
• Riverside County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report
• Ventura County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report
• Santa Barbara County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report
• Kern County Crime Statistics: 2026 Report

All reports in this series are collected under California crime statistics.