Pleasanton Among Safest California Cities: Report

PLEASANTON, CA — Pleasanton is still ranked among the safest cities in California, though it dropped 21 spots from last year's ranking, according to a recent report from Safewise, a security product review site. Three Tri-Valley cities made it in the top 50 and five Tri-Valley cities made it into the top 100.

Here's how Tri-Valley cities ranked 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)
• #7: San Ramon (violent crime rate: .6 per 1,000; property crime rate: 10.3 per 1,000 people)
• #40: Pleasanton (violent crime rate: 1.3 per 1,000; property crime rate: 17 per 1,000 people)
• #58: Dublin (violent crime rate: 1.7 per 1,000; property crime rate: 18.7 per 1,000 people)
• #62: Livermore (violent crime rate: 2 per 1,000; property crime rate: 18.5 per 1,000 people)

This year Danville remained at the top of the list and San Ramon slipped by one spot.

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 nearly 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.