Safest Cities In California Ranked In 2020 Report

CALIFORNIA — Wondering how safe your city is? Safewise, a security product review site, has ranked the top 231 safest cities in California.

Here are the top 20 safest California cities in this year's report, based on 2018 crime statistics (the most recent year for which complete information was available):

1. Danville (violent crime rate: .4 per 1,000; property crime rate: 7.2 per 1,000 people)
2. Rancho Santa Margarita (violent crime rate: .9 per 1,000; property crime rate: 6.5 per 1,000 people)
3. Moorpark (violent crime rate: .9 per 1,000; property crime rate: 7 per 1,000 people)
4. Lincoln (violent crime rate: .7 per 1,000; property crime rate: 8.6 per 1,000 people)
5. Aliso Viejo (violent crime rate: .8 per 1,000; property crime rate: 8.5 per 1,000 people)
6. Rancho Palos Verdes (violent crime rate: .8 per 1,000; property crime rate: 9.2 per 1,000 people)
7. San Ramon (violent crime rate: .6 per 1,000; property crime rate: 10.3 per 1,000 people)
8. Mission Viejo (violent crime rate: 1.2 per 1,000; property crime rate: 9.7 per 1,000 people)
9. Laguna Niguel (violent crime rate: 1.2 per 1,000; property crime rate: 9.6 per 1,000 people)
10. Yorba Linda (violent crime rate: .6 per 1,000; property crime rate: 11.8 per 1,000 people)
11. Foster City (violent crime rate: 1 per 1,000; property crime rate: 10.7 per 1,000 people)
12. Irvine (violent crime rate: .6 per 1,000; property crime rate: 12.7 per 1,000 people)
13. Poway (violent crime rate: 1.3 per 1,000; property crime rate: 10.1 per 1,000 people)
14. Thousand Oaks (violent crime rate: 1 per 1,000; property crime rate: 11.4 per 1,000 people)
15. Murrieta (violent crime rate: .8 per 1,000; property crime rate: 12.3 per 1,000 people)
16. Oakley (violent crime rate: 1 per 1,000; property crime rate: 11.9 per 1,000 people)
17. Lake Forest (violent crime rate: 1.9 per 1,000; property crime rate: 8.9 per 1,000 people)
18. Santa Clarita (violent crime rate: 1.3 per 1,000; property crime rate: 11.3 per 1,000 people)
19. Camarillo (violent crime rate: 1.1 per 1,000; property crime rate: 12.3 per 1,000 people)
20. Chino Hills (violent crime rate: .9 per 1,000; property crime rate: 13.3 per 1,000 people)

Safewise said it ranked the cities by comparing U.S. Census Bureau population data with crime statistics submitted by law enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program in 2018.

While California requires officials to keep crime statistics, other states do not.

Safewise found 16 percent of Californians have experienced violent crime in the past year, 38 percent have experienced property crime in the past year and 10 percent of people have been impacted by a mass shooting.

A Safewise survey of Californians found neary six in 10 worry about crime every day and are more concerned about safety than the average American, but crime rates in the Golden State are far below national averages.

More than half of Californians surveyed said they were most worried about a stranger killing them, according to Safewise. Just 36 percent of Americans had the same concern.

Murder constitutes one percent of violent crime incidents in California, according to Safewise. Robbery incidents comprised about a third of all violent crime in California.

When it comes to property crime, seven in 10 Californians worried about break-ins, though larceny-theft comprises 66 percent of all property crimes, according to Safewise.

Six in 10 Americans are also most worried about break-ins.

The Safewise survey was conducted online in September and October 2019 and weighted by demographic information with a margin of error of ±1.4 percent.

Read the full report here.