Neighborhood bordering Logan Heights with Southcrest Community Park & Recreation Center and Southcrest Trails Neighborhood Park.
Search this neighborhoodSouthcrest is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 6,500 residents. Its edges follow National Avenue on the north, I-5 and Gamma Street on the south and South 43rd Street and Vesta Street on the east. It also borders the Logan Heights neighborhood to the west. Parks inside it include Southcrest Community Park & Recreation Center (17.5 acres), Southcrest Trails Neighborhood Park (5.9 acres) and Dorothy Petway Neighborhood Park (2.7 acres). Other places inside it include Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School.
By area, Southcrest is zoned mostly Residential - Multiple Unit (RM-1-1, RM-2-5) and Open Space - Park (OP-1-1). Transit with a stop inside it includes Route 12 (12th & Imperial - Skyline Hills) and Route 955 (National City - San Diego State University). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly combination building permits and building permits. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the Southcrest police-neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 3% of offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime (about 1 in 8 rape reports), carries no map location and is not counted, and the newest weeks are still being filled in as reports are approved, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters, without a case number. The department’s own process entries (mental-health holds, warrants, probation and parole lines, citations and infractions) are not counted. Incidents handled by other police agencies do not appear: federal military bases, the airport and the Port of San Diego tidelands (the Port’s Harbor Police), UC San Diego and San Diego State University (campus police), the City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, the California Highway Patrol on the freeways, the Sheriff in the unincorporated county, and the police departments of Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and the other neighboring cities. Naval Base San Diego, nearby, is a federal military base with its own police, so incidents there are not in the SDPD feed.
View safety data →Permits issued in Southcrest over the past year, still open, are mostly in the categories combination building permits and building permits. San Diego’s permit data covers about the past 21 months and leaves out trade, sign, traffic-control and right-of-way permits; a permit with no map location (about 1 in 400 active permits) is not counted in any neighborhood.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Southcrest is mostly Residential - Multiple Unit and Open Space - Park, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Southcrest address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. San Diego’s 311 data (Get It Done) shows only open requests from the past 90 days, so a request that has been resolved is not shown and an address with none listed may still have had one.
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