The city of San Bernardino reported 505 non-residential burglaries in 2025 — 60.7% of the 832 burglaries reported citywide — down from 743 in 2024, when non-residential offenses were 72.8% of the total. The non-residential count has fallen three straight years, yet still outnumbered residential break-ins in every one of the past five years. 7.5% of 2025’s burglaries were reported cleared. Every figure on this page comes from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes & Clearances collection, as reported by the San Bernardino Police Department — the city’s own agency, not the county sheriff — and every one can be reproduced from the public file.
By Jacob Ross, Security Specialist · Guardian Integrated Security · CA PPO #121089 · Last updated August 29, 2026
Nothing here is estimated, modeled or borrowed from another jurisdiction’s data. Counts come from one primary source — the CA DOJ’s statewide Crimes & Clearances file, filtered to the San Bernardino Police Department’s agency rows. Where a percentage is calculated rather than stated by the source, its inputs are shown so you can check the arithmetic.
San Bernardino Commercial Burglary: The Key Numbers
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- San Bernardino PD reported 505 non-residential burglaries in 2025, against 327 residential burglaries — 832 burglary offenses in total.
- Non-residential burglaries were 60.7% of all San Bernardino burglary in 2025 (505 of 832) — roughly one and a half non-residential break-ins for every residential one.
- The non-residential share was 72.8% in 2024 (743 of 1,021) and ran between 72.4% and 77.7% in each of the four years before 2025 — the 2025 share is the lowest of the five years shown.
- Non-residential burglary has fallen three straight years — down 47.8% from its five-year peak of 967 offenses in 2022 to 505 in 2025, including a 32.0% single-year drop from 2024.
- Residential burglary moved the other way in 2025, rising from 278 to 327 (+17.6%) — while staying inside the 277–342 range it has occupied in every year shown.
- 7.5% of San Bernardino burglaries were reported cleared in 2025 — 62 of 832, the lowest rate of the five years shown.
- 76.1% of all San Bernardino burglaries in 2025 involved forcible entry — 633 of 832.
- Among offenses that carry a time code, night-coded non-residential burglaries outnumbered day-coded ones in every year from 2021 through 2025 — 231 versus 157 in 2025 — though a large block of offenses carries no time code at all.
- San Bernardino’s 505 non-residential burglaries were 0.7% of the 68,153 reported by California law-enforcement agencies statewide in 2025 (CA DOJ Crimes & Clearances).
505 Non-Residential Burglaries in 2025 — 60.7% of the City’s Total
The state’s data splits burglary by premise into residential and non-residential. Non-residential is the category that covers businesses — stores, offices, warehouses, distribution and industrial buildings — along with some non-commercial structures such as schools and places of worship. It is the closest thing in California’s published data to a San Bernardino commercial burglary count, and the premise coding is the San Bernardino Police Department’s own.
- Total burglary offenses reported in 2025: 832.
- Non-residential: 505 — 60.7% of the total.
- Residential: 327 — 39.3% of the total.
The two premise categories sum exactly to the total, with no undesignated remainder — a reconciliation this page re-checked against the source file rather than assumed. Even in 2025, the lowest-share year of the five shown, San Bernardino recorded roughly one and a half non-residential break-ins for every residential one; in 2024 the ratio was nearly three to one.
Non-Residential Burglary Fell Three Straight Years — Down 47.8% From the 2022 Peak
Across the five most recent complete years in the state’s file, San Bernardino’s reported non-residential burglary count peaked at 967 in 2022 and has fallen three straight years since — 916 in 2023, 743 in 2024 and 505 in 2025, a 47.8% decline from the peak. All burglary combined fell 33.1% over the same span.
| Year | All burglary | Residential | Non-residential | Non-residential share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,239 | 342 | 897 | 72.4% |
| 2022 | 1,244 | 277 | 967 | 77.7% |
| 2023 | 1,224 | 308 | 916 | 74.8% |
| 2024 | 1,021 | 278 | 743 | 72.8% |
| 2025 | 832 | 327 | 505 | 60.7% |
Source: CA DOJ Crimes & Clearances, San Bernardino Police Department rows. The 2025 numbers moved in an unusual way, and this page states the movement without assigning it a cause: non-residential burglary fell 32.0% in a single year (743 to 505) while residential burglary rose 17.6% (278 to 327), so the non-residential share dropped from 72.8% to 60.7% — its lowest level of the five years shown, after four years between 72.4% and 77.7%. The residential rise, for its part, stayed inside the 277–342 range that category has occupied in every year of the table. One documented change belongs next to these figures: the San Bernardino Police Department states that in 2025 it transitioned from UCR summary reporting to incident-based reporting (IBR/NIBRS), which changes how offenses are counted. Year-over-year movement into 2025 should be read with that transition in mind.
Night-Coded Non-Residential Burglaries Outnumbered Day-Coded Ones in Every Year Shown
The state’s file records whether each non-residential burglary was coded as a night-time or daytime offense — the coding, again, is the reporting department’s own. San Bernardino reports a substantial block of offenses with no time designation at all: 23.2% of non-residential burglaries in 2025, and in 2021 and 2022 the no-code block was the largest single category, exceeding both the night and day counts. This page therefore prints no night-share percentage of any kind — neither of the full count nor of the coded subset — because no share computed from this file would describe the full count. The raw counts are still worth stating.
| Year | Night-coded | Day-coded | No time code | Share with no code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 289 | 89 | 519 | 57.9% |
| 2022 | 383 | 94 | 490 | 50.7% |
| 2023 | 429 | 97 | 390 | 42.6% |
| 2024 | 357 | 78 | 308 | 41.5% |
| 2025 | 231 | 157 | 117 | 23.2% |
Among the offenses that do carry a time code, night outnumbered day in every year from 2021 through 2025. What the file cannot support is a claim like “X% of San Bernardino burglaries happen at night” — the uncoded block is too large in every year for any such share to be honest.
7.5% of San Bernardino Burglaries Were Reported Cleared in 2025
Clearances in this dataset are reported for burglary as a whole, not split by premise. San Bernardino’s 2025 rate is the lowest of the five years shown — more than nine in ten of the year’s offenses had no reported clearance.
- 2025: 62 clearances against 832 offenses — 7.5%. The remaining 770 offenses (92.5%) had no clearance reported.
- 2024: 90 clearances against 1,021 offenses — 8.8%.
- 2023: 113 against 1,224 — 9.2%.
- 2022: 125 against 1,244 — 10.0%, the highest rate of the five years shown.
- 2021: 113 against 1,239 — 9.1%.
Two caveats belong next to these numbers. Clearance figures are point-in-time: cases still open when the department reported can be cleared later, so a year’s final picture can improve after the fact. And a year’s clearances are the clearances the department reported that year, which is not necessarily an arrest for that same year’s offenses.
More Than Three in Four 2025 Burglaries Involved Forcible Entry
The dataset also splits burglary by method of entry, across all premises.
- 2025: 633 forcible-entry burglaries (76.1%) versus 199 unlawful entries without force (23.9%).
- In the four years before that, the forcible-entry share was higher still: 86.0% (2021), 88.7% (2022), 86.4% (2023) and 87.0% (2024).
More than three of every four San Bernardino burglars in 2025 defeated a physical barrier — a door, a window, a lock — rather than walking through one left open. Hardware alone is being beaten at that rate; what the data cannot show is how often an intruder was seen while it was happening.
What This Means for a San Bernardino Business
Three findings on this page sit together. San Bernardino’s burglary problem lands mostly on premises that are not homes — 60.7% of 2025’s offenses, and roughly three in four in each of the four years before that — in a city whose commercial base runs to warehouses, logistics yards, retail corridors and industrial parks. Among offenses that carry a time code, night consistently outnumbers day. And 92.5% of the year’s offenses had no reported clearance, which means prevention and interruption are worth more than after-the-fact evidence.
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These statistics may be used with attribution and a link to this page. Journalists and researchers who need a cut of this data we have not published — another year, another split, or the underlying rows — can contact us and we will run the query.
Sources
- California Department of Justice, Crimes & Clearances (with Arson), 1985–2025, OpenJustice open-data collection, July 2026 release (complete calendar years through 2025); San Bernardino Police Department rows. OpenJustice data portal. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- City of San Bernardino, Police Department Crime Statistics page — cited for two facts only: the department’s statement that it transitioned from UCR to incident-based reporting (IBR/NIBRS) in 2025, and the nature of the city’s own publication channels (monthly preliminary PDF statistics sheets and a third-party incident map); no crime figure on this page is drawn from them. sanbernardino.gov. Accessed August 29, 2026.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer, San Bernardino Police Department (ORI CA0361000), burglary offense and clearance counts 2024–2025 — used only as a cross-check, never mixed into the tables above. cde.ucr.cjis.gov. Accessed August 29, 2026.
Methodology
All crime counts on this page come from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes & Clearances (with Arson) collection, published on the DOJ’s OpenJustice open-data portal. The file spans 1985 through 2025 in complete calendar years; this page presents the five most recent (2021–2025). Figures were taken by filtering the statewide file to County = “San Bernardino County” and agency (NCIC code) = “San Bernardino” — an exact match that selects the San Bernardino Police Department, the city’s own agency; the county sheriff appears in the same file as the separate agency “San Bernardino Co. Sheriff’s Department” and is used nowhere on this page — and reading the burglary columns directly: total burglary, residential and non-residential premise counts, the night/day/no-code time coding of non-residential offenses, method-of-entry counts, and reported clearances. The file was retrieved and all figures re-computed on August 29, 2026. Internal reconciliations were checked rather than assumed: for every year shown, residential plus non-residential equals total burglary, night plus day plus no-code equals the non-residential total, and forcible plus non-forcible entry equals total burglary. Percentages are calculated from the counts shown, to one decimal place. The one statewide figure (68,153 non-residential burglaries in 2025) is the sum of the same column across all reporting agencies in the same file.
Dataset landing page: OpenJustice — California Department of Justice open data.
The DOJ refreshes and revises this collection as agencies amend their submissions, so every figure here is point-in-time as of the August 29, 2026 retrieval and may differ slightly from a copy downloaded later; figures are re-checked at each monthly re-audit.
Four notes on how the numbers are made. First, the premise coding (residential versus non-residential), the night/day coding and the method-of-entry coding are the San Bernardino Police Department’s own, made when each offense is recorded and reported to the DOJ — this page applies no reclassification of its own, and “non-residential” includes some non-commercial structures. Second, no night-share percentage is printed anywhere on this page: a block of San Bernardino’s non-residential burglaries carries no time designation in every year shown (117 offenses in 2025, and between 308 and 519 in each of 2021–2024 — in 2021 and 2022 the largest single category), so no share computed from this file would describe the full count; the page reports the raw counts and the no-code share instead. Third, clearances are point-in-time and reported for burglary as a whole: open cases may be cleared after the reporting year closes, and a year’s clearance count is not restricted to that year’s offenses. Fourth, the department states on its own Crime Statistics page that in 2025 it transitioned from UCR summary reporting to incident-based reporting (IBR/NIBRS), which counts all offenses connected to an incident rather than only the most serious one — a change in counting rules, not necessarily in crime — so year-over-year comparisons into 2025 carry that caveat. Separately, the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer reports 1,021 burglary offenses for this agency in 2024 — identical to the DOJ — and 835 in 2025 against the DOJ’s 832, with clearance counts (90 and 62) matching in both years; small differences arise because the two compilations are built on different cycles and rules from the same department’s records, and the two programs’ numbers are never mixed in the tables above.
