Editor’s note: As of Tuesday, March 31, 2026 — This report is updated to eliminate recent months where some crime data was incomplete.

Every week, we take a look at how city services are working in your neighborhood.

This article breaks down information from the data desk at Times of San Diego, and shows you how things are working in the Downtown community planning district.

We publish a similar report for 19 neighborhoods in different parts of the city. See how we break down San Diego neighborhoods in this story. And we’re making changes to what kind of data we show you for 2026. So, read on.

PUBLIC SAFETY

A look at common public-safety concerns in our neighborhoods.

Auto theft

One of the most-read stories ever from the data desk was our report on San Diego neighborhoods with the most auto thefts. Starting this week, we’ll update you on those reports in your neighborhood, based on San Diego’s city data for motor vehicle thefts.

Here’s how neighborhoods citywide compare for the number of auto theft reports through 2025.

Here’s the trend citywide for the same timeframe.

And here are reports in downtown.

Other theft crimes

Every week, we update you on theft crimes: larceny and theft; burglary; and robbery. (More about what these three terms mean here.)

Larceny and theft trend citywide for the past year:

Here’s how that trend looks in downtown:

Burglary trend citywide for the past year:

Here’s how that trend looks in downtown:

Robbery trend citywide this year:

Here’s how that trend looks in downtown:

Have you filed a crime report lately?

Tell us what’s happening in your neighborhood at data@timesofsandiego.com

Car crashes

The city saw 7,531 car crashes in the past 12-month period. Here’s how neighborhoods citywide compare for the total number of crash reports in the past 12 months:

In the same time frame, the Downtown district has seen 528 crashes. That means it ranks number 1 in crashes among roughly 50 districts citywide.

Of all those crashes, only a small portion lead to fatalities. In the past 12 months, here’s where fatal collisions happened citywide. (Note, publicly available data does not always include the most recent crashes.)

CITY SERVICES

Potholes

As we’ve reported here at Times of San Diego, potholes have a season! To see how a year’s worth of potholes gets reported and repaired, see the interactive map we published here.

In the past 12-month period, the Downtown district has seen 471 pothole reports. That means it ranks number 15 in the number of reports among all districts.

Here’s how they compare:

So far this month, downtown saw at least 28 reports of potholes.

What else do you want to know?

We’ll update this post with more details about downtown. What do you want to know about city services, crime or other factors? Tell us at the email address below.

Neighborhoods go by many names, and San Diego has many of them! Here’s how we break them down.

See this data report for other San Diego neighborhoods

Have questions about our data, or something you’d like to see? Talk to us at data@timesofsandiego.com.