How This Site Works

SFResponse.org How San Francisco responds

Where the numbers come from

Each page uses the city's own records, mostly from DataSF, the city's open data portal. Each page's Method section names its sources and links to them.

Police response	SFPD dispatched calls, closed calls. Updated daily.
Recent calls	SFPD's live dispatch feed. The city updates it every ten minutes, about ten minutes behind.
Fire and EMS	Fire Department dispatched calls, and the Emergency Medical Services Agency's response times. Updated daily.
Drones	SFPD's drone flight log, as SFPD publishes it.
Crime	SFPD incident reports. The city adds reports each morning, through the day before.
Crashes	The city's records of people hurt in traffic crashes, and the Medical Examiner's records of people killed. Published monthly, about six weeks behind.
Prosecutions	The District Attorney's records of arrests presented, cases prosecuted and how cases ended. Published monthly.
Homelessness	311 tickets about encampments and homelessness, updated daily, and the city's count of tents, structures and lived-in vehicles, taken every few months.
Services	The city's shelter, supportive housing and treatment program lists, state licensing lists and the federal housing inventory, each as of its latest list. The health department's program directory is read nightly.
Residents	The 2020–2024 American Community Survey, the same population figures the S.F. Chronicle uses.

How often it updates

The site rebuilds every morning from the latest data. Under each page's title is how current its data is. When a source is late or the city's file is broken, the page keeps its last good figures until the city fixes it.

How to read the numbers

Response times are medians. Half of calls got an officer faster and half slower. Priority A, B and C are always kept separate, and each has its own target: 8, 20 and 60 minutes.
Rates are per 1,000 residents, so a large neighborhood and a small one can be compared.
"× citywide" is an area's rate divided by the city's. 2.0× means twice the city's rate.
Gray figures are within normal variation. On most pages, a difference is called higher or lower only when chance would produce one that large less than 5% of the time. On the police page, an area within 10% of the citywide median is normal, 10 to 20% is elevated, and more than 20% is a systemic disparity.
A dash means there were too few calls or incidents to compare.
Ranks say how many areas they are out of, usually the 38 neighborhoods with at least 1,000 residents.

Areas

Every page covers the whole city and each of its areas: the city's 41 neighborhoods, the 10 police districts (their boundaries changed on October 1, 2026), the 11 supervisor districts, and custom areas such as business districts and neighborhood associations. A link can open any area, for example sfresponse.org/crime?area=tenderloin or sfresponse.org/?area=sd:6 for Supervisor District 6.

Using the figures

You're welcome to reuse anything here. The figures are licensed CC BY 4.0: credit SFResponse.org and link to the page. Every page's figures are also in a data file, such as sfresponse.org/data/crime.json for the crime page, and every page link includes its area's figures as plain text, so search engines can read them.

Corrections and questions

If a number looks wrong, email contact@sfresponse.org with the page link. Confirmed errors are fixed and show up in the next morning's update. Questions and feature requests are welcome too.