Colma, City of Souls, Has Highest Crime Rate in Bay Area

Published on August 24, 2024

COLMA, Calif.—Colma, California, known as the “City of Souls” due to its 1.5 million graves, has the highest crime rate in the San Francisco Bay Area. A town of about 1,700 residents, it has a near 1,000:1 grave-to-person ratio. The San Mateo County city is only 2 square miles, most of which is zoned for its 17 cemeteries. In 2020, it surpassed Emeryville for the highest Bay Area crime rate, and its rate has increased 325 percent since then to 68,000 crimes per 100,000 population in 2023, according to a Bay Area News Group analysis of OpenJustice data from the California DOJ. That’s more than three times higher than second-place Emeryville and five times higher than third-place Oakland....

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