Hayward’s own police department reports non-residential burglary down 27 percent in 2025, with residential burglary down 14 percent over the same year — part of a broader decline that also included property crime down 31 percent and vehicle theft down 44 percent citywide. The figures come from the Hayward Police Department’s own year-end crime release. HPD does not publish absolute counts alongside those percentages; this page reports the finding exactly as the department stated it, and is explicit below about what isn’t publicly available.
By Jacob Ross, Security Specialist · Guardian Integrated Security · CA PPO #121089 · Last updated August 28, 2026
Every figure on this page comes from a primary source published by the City of Hayward — the Hayward Police Department’s own year-end news release, its weekly police blotter, and its public crime-data portal — with the source linked at the point of use. Nothing is estimated and nothing is borrowed from a neighboring city’s data.
What Hayward Publishes — and What It Doesn’t
Hayward does not publish a downloadable, multi-year dataset with an explicit commercial-versus-residential burglary count. Three sources exist, and each carries a real limitation worth stating plainly.
- The department’s year-end release gives year-over-year percentage changes only, with no accompanying totals: non-residential burglary −27%, residential burglary −14%, property crime −31%, vehicle theft −44%, robbery −21%, overall crime −16% (2025 vs. 2024).
- HPD’s weekly police blotter posts do break out “Burglary — Non-Residential” and “Burglary — Residential” counts week by week. In the week of May 19–25, 2024, the sample post logged 13 non-residential and 6 residential burglaries. Each blotter is published as an individual news post, states its own numbers are “subject to change” as cases are reclassified, and no single file rolls the weekly posts into an annual total.
- The city’s Crime Data Dashboard and open crime-data portal hold a rolling window of recent months rather than a full-year or multi-year archive — see the dated snapshot below.
So the honest position is this: Hayward publishes direction, not totals. Any figure presented elsewhere as a definitive “Hayward commercial burglary count” for a full year is an estimate or a reconstruction, not a published statistic — and this page won’t invent one.
What the 27 Percent Actually Tells a Business Owner
A 27 percent drop is a real improvement, and it’s the department’s own reporting on its own year. What it doesn’t tell you is the base it fell from. Non-residential burglary is the category that covers businesses — warehouses, offices, retail, industrial buildings — and it remains a distinct, separately tracked category precisely because it keeps happening. A percentage decline changes the slope; it doesn’t change the target profile.
Hayward sits in the East Bay alongside other cities that publish their own burglary detail. For cities that do publish counts, see our analyses of Fremont’s commercial burglary statistics and San Jose’s burglary statistics.
A Recent Six-Month Snapshot from Hayward’s Open Data
Hayward’s public crime-data portal does not archive full calendar years, but it does carry a live rolling window that can be queried directly. As of the query below, the current window ran February 27, 2026 through August 27, 2026 and recorded 112 first-degree burglaries (Penal Code 460(a), covering inhabited dwellings — a residential proxy) and 39 second-degree burglaries (Penal Code 460(b), covering stores and all other structures — a commercial proxy), out of 4,039 total crime records citywide in that window. Auto burglary (larceny theft from a vehicle) is tracked as a separate 386-record category and is not mixed into either burglary figure.
This snapshot will not match a query run on a different date — the portal is a rolling window, not a fixed annual archive — so it is reported here as a dated point-in-time figure rather than an annual total, and is not the basis for any trend claim on this page.
The Pattern Behind the Category
Non-residential burglary concentrates where buildings sit empty and unwatched after closing. That’s the shared thread across every Bay Area city that publishes detail: the businesses hit are the ones dark overnight, with an alarm that nobody is positioned to verify and a response that arrives after the fact. The weekly blotter’s own split — non-residential burglaries outnumbering residential in the sample week — is consistent with that pattern, even without an annual total to anchor it.
Coverage in Hayward and the East Bay
Guardian Integrated Security covers Hayward as part of our Alameda County service area. For a building that sits empty after hours, live video monitoring puts trained agents on your existing cameras in real time — they see an intruder as it happens, challenge them over two-way audio, dispatch Guardian’s own patrol, and alert and coordinate with Hayward police with a verified account of a crime in progress rather than an unverified alarm. On-site guard coverage is available for properties that need staffed presence.
What This Means for a Hayward Business
Three facts sit together. Non-residential burglary is down 27 percent, which is real progress — but it remains a distinct, ongoing category rather than a solved problem. HPD does not publish the count that would tell a business owner the actual scale of the risk. And the department’s own blotter data shows non-residential burglaries can outnumber residential ones in a given week. A camera system watched in real time closes the gap between “the trend is improving” and “my building is covered tonight”: a trained agent sees an intruder as it happens, issues a two-way audio warning, and gives Hayward police a verified account rather than an unconfirmed alarm.
Guardian Integrated Security has protected 2,700+ California businesses for 20+ years. BBB A+ rated. California PPO #121089. To have a Hayward property assessed, request a quote or call 800-400-3167.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is burglary going up or down in Hayward?
Down. The Hayward Police Department’s year-end crime release reports non-residential burglary fell 27 percent and residential burglary fell 14 percent in 2025 compared with 2024, alongside declines in property crime (−31%), vehicle theft (−44%) and robbery (−21%). These are the department’s own year-over-year percentages; HPD does not publish the underlying counts.
Does Hayward publish a commercial burglary count?
Not as a single annual figure. HPD’s year-end release gives percentage changes only. Its weekly police blotter posts do break out non-residential and residential burglary counts week by week (one sample week logged 13 non-residential and 6 residential), but each post is published individually with no bulk file rolling the weeks into an annual total, and the city’s open-data portal holds only a rolling recent window rather than a full-year archive.
How many burglaries does Hayward have per year?
Hayward Police Department does not publish an annual non-residential burglary count. The department reports year-over-year direction only — non-residential burglary down 27 percent and residential burglary down 14 percent in 2025 versus 2024. This page does not convert that percentage into an estimated count, because HPD has not published the base figure needed to do so.
Does Guardian Integrated Security cover Hayward?
Yes. Guardian covers Hayward as part of its Alameda County / East Bay service area, offering live video monitoring, on-site guard coverage, security camera installation and patrol services built per property from a free on-site assessment.
Cite This Page
If you use these figures, please cite the page:
APA — Ross, J. (2026). Hayward burglary statistics: What HPD reports. Guardian Integrated Security. https://www.guardianintegratedsecurity.com/hayward-burglary-statistics/
MLA — Ross, Jacob. “Hayward Burglary Statistics: What HPD Reports.” Guardian Integrated Security, 2026, https://www.guardianintegratedsecurity.com/hayward-burglary-statistics/.
Chicago — Ross, Jacob. “Hayward Burglary Statistics: What HPD Reports.” Guardian Integrated Security. Accessed [date]. https://www.guardianintegratedsecurity.com/hayward-burglary-statistics/.
Sources
- Hayward Police Department, year-end crime release, “Criminal Activity Declined Significantly in Hayward in 2025,” City of Hayward, published March 2026 (URL path dated March 10, 2026; article carries no separate visible publish-date tag). hayward-ca.gov. Verified live August 28, 2026.
- Hayward Police Department, weekly Police Blotter, “Police Blotter May 19-25, 2024.” hayward-ca.gov. Verified live August 28, 2026.
- Hayward Police Department, Crime Data Dashboard, City of Hayward. Verified live August 28, 2026.
- City of Hayward Open Data, “Hayward Police Department Public Crime Data,” ArcGIS FeatureServer
Crime_Data_Public/FeatureServer/0, query grouped bySTAT_DESC, run August 28, 2026: window February 27, 2026 – August 27, 2026, 4,039 total records; First Degree burglary 110 + 2 (inhabited dwelling) = 112; Second Degree burglary 36 + 3 (stores only) = 39; Auto burglary/larceny theft from auto 386. opendata.hayward-ca.gov.
Methodology
All percentage figures on this page come from the Hayward Police Department’s own year-end crime release for 2025 (published on hayward-ca.gov, March 2026), which reports year-over-year changes against 2024 and no absolute counts. The weekly figures come from a single named HPD police-blotter post (the week of May 19–25, 2024). The six-month snapshot comes from the City of Hayward’s open-data layer “Hayward Police Department Public Crime Data,” a rolling window that held records dated February 27 through August 27, 2026 at the time of the query, grouped by the department’s own offense description field; first-degree (Penal Code 460(a), inhabited dwelling) and second-degree (460(b), stores and all other structures) burglary are the department’s classifications, used here as residential and commercial proxies, and auto burglary is a separate category that is not mixed into either. Every source was re-verified live on August 28, 2026. Hayward does not publish a bulk-downloadable, multi-year burglary archive; where that gap exists this page states it rather than filling it with an estimate, and it carries no per-capita rate, no city-to-city comparison and no trend beyond HPD’s own published percentages.
Dataset landing page: Hayward Police Department Public Crime Data — City of Hayward Open Data. Release and blotter: HPD 2025 year-end crime release · Police Blotter, May 19–25, 2024.
The open-data layer is a rolling window that is updated and reclassified continuously, so the snapshot figures are point-in-time as of August 28, 2026 and will not match a query run on another date; they are re-checked at each monthly re-audit.
Replication details
ArcGIS FeatureServer layer: https://services3.arcgis.com/VRO5V8PH7DzSE6AU/arcgis/rest/services/Crime_Data_Public/FeatureServer/0. Burglary categories: /query?where=STAT_DESC LIKE '%BURGLARY%'&groupByFieldsForStatistics=STAT_DESC&outStatistics=[{"statisticType":"count","onStatisticField":"OBJECTID","outStatisticFieldName":"n"}]&f=json → “BURGLARY – FIRST DEGREE” 110 + “BURGLARY, INHABITED DWELLING … 1ST DEGREE” 2 = 112; “BURGLARY – SECOND DEGREE” 36 + “… 2ND DEGREE (STORES ONLY)” 3 = 39; “AUTO BURGLARY – LARCENY THEFT FROM AUTO” 386. Window and total: /query?where=1=1&outStatistics=[{"statisticType":"min","onStatisticField":"FROM_DATETIME","outStatisticFieldName":"mn"},{"statisticType":"max","onStatisticField":"FROM_DATETIME","outStatisticFieldName":"mx"},{"statisticType":"count","onStatisticField":"OBJECTID","outStatisticFieldName":"n"}]&f=json → February 27 – August 27, 2026; 4,039 records. Run August 28, 2026. The HPD release and blotter figures are read directly from the linked pages (non-residential burglary −27%, residential −14%, property crime −31%, vehicle theft −44%, robbery −21%, overall −16%; blotter week: 13 non-residential, 6 residential).
