Sacramento businesses were burglarized more often than Sacramento homes in 2025. The city’s police records show 1,148 commercial burglaries against 934 residential — and it wasn’t a one-year quirk: 2024 ran 1,234 commercial to 974 residential, a decline of about 7 percent. The counts come from the Sacramento Police Department’s own report data, published on the city’s open data portal, filtered to the offense category the department itself labels “459 PC Burglary: Business/Commercial.”
By Jacob Ross, Security Specialist · Guardian Integrated Security · CA PPO #121089 · Last updated August 28, 2026
Every figure below comes from a primary source published by the City of Sacramento — the Sacramento Police Department’s own open-data report layers, queried directly by offense category — with the source and a reproducible query linked at the point of use. Nothing is drawn from another city’s data. Where a comparison could not be independently verified from a named primary source this session, it has been left off the page rather than repeated from an earlier draft.
Commercial Burglary by the Numbers
- 1,148 commercial burglaries recorded by SPD in 2025, against 934 residential burglaries — commercial burglary outnumbered residential by 214 incidents.
- 1,234 commercial burglaries in 2024, against 974 residential — commercial burglary fell about 7 percent from 2024 to 2025 ((1,148−1,234)/1,234).
- Car break-ins are not included in either figure. In Sacramento’s records system, theft from a vehicle is classified as larceny — a separate offense category — so these counts never inflate “commercial burglary” with parking-lot break-ins.
- Records data updates as cases update, so individual counts can shift after the date they were queried.
When and Where Commercial Burglary Concentrated in 2025
- The heaviest months were front-loaded in the first half of the year: February (122), January (118), March (108), May (106) and April (104). The second half ran lighter — July (67) was the lowest single month.
- By police beat, 2025’s commercial burglary counts concentrated in beat 1A (108), followed by 3A (102), 2C (94), 2A (88) and 5A (66), per the beat field in SPD’s own records.
The 2026 Trend: A Dated Snapshot, Not a Live Total
Through August 5, 2026 — a fixed cutoff, chosen to match SPD’s records as they stood on that date — the department’s 2026 report-data layer shows 570 commercial burglaries. This is a year-to-date figure, not an annualized projection, and it is not the same as “the total so far”: Sacramento’s records system continues to add and revise entries after an incident occurs. As of this page’s most recent query (August 28, 2026), the same 2026 layer held 590 commercial burglary records, with the most recent entry dated August 13, 2026 — twenty more records than the August 5 cutoff, added or revised in the three weeks since. Any reader re-running the query today will see a different, larger number than the 570 quoted above; that is expected, not an error, and is the reason this page states its cutoff date rather than presenting a single unqualified “year-to-date” figure.
What These Numbers Are — and Aren’t
SPD publishes report data per calendar year, updated from its records management system. This page counts records in the business/commercial burglary category only. Residential burglary is a separate category, and so are burglary-tools possession and information-only reports — none of them are mixed in here. These records-system counts also aren’t identical to what the FBI publishes: the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer lists 2,354 burglary offenses for the Sacramento Police Department in 2024, against 2,208 in the city’s records data (1,234 commercial + 974 residential) — a gap of about 6 percent (calculated: 2,354 ÷ 2,208), the kind of difference expected between a live records system and a finalized federal submission. This page does not attempt to reconcile which figure is more correct — both are the reporting agency’s own numbers, published through different channels.
What a Sacramento Business Does With This
Two things follow from the data above. Commercial burglary outnumbers residential in Sacramento — the target profile here is businesses that sit dark after closing. And the losses cluster in predictable months and beats, which rewards coverage that can scale with the pattern instead of a fixed cost carried year-round regardless of season. Guardian Integrated Security already covers Sacramento with live video monitoring — trained agents watch your existing cameras in real time, at under $3 per hour, and can challenge an intruder over two-way audio, dispatch Guardian’s own patrol, and alert and coordinate with Sacramento police with a verified account of what is actually happening rather than an unconfirmed alarm. On-site guard coverage is available for properties that need a staffed presence. Coverage is priced per property from a free on-site assessment. Call (800) 400-3167.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many commercial burglaries does Sacramento have per year?
The Sacramento Police Department’s own report data shows 1,148 commercial burglaries in 2025 and 1,234 in 2024 — a decline of about 7 percent. These counts come from SPD’s “459 PC Burglary: Business/Commercial” offense category on the city’s open data portal.
Are businesses or homes burglarized more often in Sacramento?
Businesses. SPD recorded 1,148 commercial burglaries in 2025 against 934 residential burglaries — 214 more commercial incidents than residential over the same year.
Is commercial burglary in Sacramento going up or down?
Down. Commercial burglary fell from 1,234 in 2024 to 1,148 in 2025, a decrease of about 7 percent, according to SPD’s own report-data records.
Do these commercial burglary numbers include car break-ins?
No. In Sacramento’s records system, theft from a vehicle is classified as larceny, a separate offense category from burglary. The commercial burglary counts on this page never include parking-lot or vehicle break-ins.
Cite This Page
Guardian Integrated Security, “Sacramento Commercial Burglary Statistics: What SPD’s Records Show,” 2026. https://www.guardianintegratedsecurity.com/sacramento-commercial-burglary-statistics/
Sources
- City of Sacramento Open Data — Sacramento Report Data 2025 (Sacramento Police Department report-data layer; queried August 28, 2026, offense category “459 PC BURGLARY:BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL” and “459 PC BURGLARY:RESIDENTIAL”)
- City of Sacramento Open Data — Sacramento Report Data 2024 (same query, 2024 layer)
- City of Sacramento Open Data — Sacramento Report Data 2026 (year-to-date layer; queried August 28, 2026, records through August 13, 2026)
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — summarized offense data for the Sacramento Police Department (agency ORI CA0340400), burglary, January–December 2024; queried August 28, 2026
Methodology
The burglary counts on this page come from the Sacramento Police Department’s report data, published by the City of Sacramento on its open-data portal as one layer per calendar year (“Sacramento Report Data 2024,” “2025” and “2026”). Commercial and residential burglary were isolated using the department’s own offense labels in the Description field — “459 PC BURGLARY:BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL” and “459 PC BURGLARY:RESIDENTIAL” — for the full calendar years 2024 and 2025; monthly counts were built from twelve separate date-pattern queries against the same field and sum to the annual total exactly, and beat counts come from the same layer’s Beat field. The 2026 figure is a year-to-date count through a stated cutoff of August 5, 2026 (complete months January through July plus a day-by-day count for August 1–5), with the live count on the query date shown beside it. The FBI comparison figure was read from the FBI Crime Data Explorer’s summarized-agency data for the Sacramento Police Department (ORI CA0340400), burglary, January through December 2024, using the response’s actuals object only; the population-based rates in the same response are not used or shown. All queries were run on August 28, 2026.
Dataset landing pages: Sacramento Report Data 2025 · Sacramento Report Data 2024 · Sacramento Report Data 2026 — City of Sacramento Open Data · FBI Crime Data Explorer.
SPD’s records system adds and revises entries after an incident occurs, so every count on this page is point-in-time as of August 28, 2026 and a query run on another date can return a different number; figures are re-checked at each monthly re-audit.
Replication details
ArcGIS FeatureServer query base: https://services5.arcgis.com/54falWtcpty3V47Z/arcgis/rest/services/<LAYER>/FeatureServer/0/query where <LAYER> is Sacramento_Report_Data_2024, Sacramento_Report_Data_2025 or Sacramento%20Report%20Data%202026. Annual counts: ?where=Description='459 PC BURGLARY:BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL'&returnCountOnly=true&f=json (and '459 PC BURGLARY:RESIDENTIAL') → 2025: 1,148 / 934; 2024: 1,234 / 974. Monthly counts: add AND Occurrence_Date_PT LIKE 'MM/%/2025%' for each month (February → 122, January 118, March 108, May 106, April 104, July 67). Beats: ?where=Description='459 PC BURGLARY:BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL'&groupByFieldsForStatistics=Beat&outStatistics=[{"statisticType":"count","onStatisticField":"Record_ID","outStatisticFieldName":"n"}]&orderByFields=n DESC&f=json → 1A 108, 3A 102, 2C 94, 2A 88, 5A 66. 2026: same commercial filter on the 2026 layer with Occurrence_Date_PT LIKE 'MM/%/2026%' for January–July plus LIKE '08/0D/2026%' for August 1–5 → 570; unbounded count on the query date → 590, most recent entry August 13, 2026. FBI: GET https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov summarized-agency data for ORI CA0340400, offense burglary, from=01-2024&to=12-2024, reading the actuals object only → 2,354.
