1,155 burglaries were reported by San Jose police between January and May 2026 — 246 in January, 252 in February, 249 in March, 221 in April, and 187 in May. The figures come from the San José Police Department’s own crime statistics table, drawn from the California Department of Justice repository as of July 7, 2026, and the department marks them preliminary, meaning individual counts can shift as cases are updated.
That averages roughly 231 burglaries a month across the city, with May’s 187 the lowest month of the year so far. For scale, burglary sits inside a much larger property-crime picture: over the same five months, SJPD logged 6,414 larceny and theft offenses, 1,866 motor vehicle thefts, 1,975 vandalism offenses, and 360 robberies — 13,442 property crimes in total.
What “burglary” means in these numbers
San Jose reports crime under NIBRS, the FBI’s incident-based system, which the department adopted in April 2023. In NIBRS, burglary is unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft — and the city’s published monthly table reports it as a single line. It does not separate commercial burglaries from residential ones, so no official “San Jose commercial burglary count” exists in the public summary. Any figure presented as one is an estimate, not a published statistic. This page doesn’t invent that split; it reports what the department reports.
The trend runs in the right direction
Reported crime in San Jose fell again in 2025, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report figures covered by San José Spotlight and NBC Bay Area: property crime dropped 7% from 2024 to a total of 23,222 — the city’s lowest in a decade apart from locked-down 2021 — and the declines held across major categories including burglary. The 2026 monthly numbers above continue the slope, falling from 246 in January to 187 in May, with the usual preliminary-data caveat attached.
The commercial pattern is real even without a split
SJPD’s Burglary Unit and Crime Analysis Unit connected more than thirty commercial burglaries — primarily at local restaurants and coffee shops — to a single suspect operating from early 2025 through June 2026, frequently traveling by electric scooter between jobs across San Jose and the wider Bay Area. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant on April 30, 2026, and the suspect was taken into custody in San Jose on June 29, 2026. One person, thirty-plus businesses: commercial burglary in San Jose runs in repeat patterns, and the businesses hit are usually the ones dark after closing time.
Why the alarm on your wall isn’t the same as this data
San Jose police separately handled 21,680 alarm calls in 2025 — about 59 a day — and officers took a report on just 102 of them, under half of one percent. Those are dispatch records, not crime counts, and the two systems should never be mixed: an alarm call records that police were asked to attend an address; the burglary figures on this page record that an offense was established. The gap between 21,680 calls and 102 reports is the strongest argument in the city’s own data for verification — knowing what’s actually happening at a site before anyone is asked to respond. The full breakdown lives in our companion analysis of San Jose’s false alarm statistics.
What San Jose businesses can do with this
The city’s Connect San Jose program, which replaced the previous camera registry in April 2025, lets a business register its cameras free so investigators can request footage after an incident — the department states it does not allow live-stream access — and a separate tier connects a camera feed through a hardware device, with a $450 rebate for eligible San Jose businesses under 20 employees funded by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office and a $150-per-year subscription after the first year. Registration shortens the investigation after a break-in; it does nothing during one. Closing that gap takes live eyes: Guardian Integrated Security’s monitoring agents watch a site’s existing cameras in real time, use two-way audio to challenge intruders, dispatch Guardian’s own patrol, and alert and coordinate with San Jose police with a verified, in-progress account — the kind of call that data shows gets a different response than alarm number 21,681.
Sources
San José Police Department, Crime Statistics (NIBRS monthly table, CA DOJ Repository, 7/7/2026) — burglary and property-crime counts · San José Police Department, News & Announcements (June 2026) — commercial burglary series arrest · San José Spotlight / NBC Bay Area, reporting FBI Uniform Crime Report figures (January 2026) — 2025 totals and trend · City of San José Police Calls for Service dataset — alarm call figures, as analyzed on our San Jose false alarm statistics page · San José Police Department, Connect San Jose / CORE rebate program pages. San Jose’s pattern sits alongside two sibling city guides Guardian maintains: San Diego commercial burglary statistics and Fremont commercial burglary statistics.
