Halloween lands on a Saturday this year. Kids will fill the sidewalks, parents will walk beside them, and drivers will head to parties on the same streets.

In the last three Halloween seasons, California cities recorded more than 37,000 fatal and injury crashes between October 1 and the first days of November. Those crashes did not spread evenly.

Maison Law ranked 336 California cities on Halloween safety. We scored each city on seasonal crashes, alcohol-involved crashes, pedestrian crashes, long-term crash rates and October reported crime.

Signal Hill ranks as the most dangerous city, followed by Beverly Hills and Malibu. Five of the ten highest scores belong to Los Angeles County cities. At the other end, Canyon Lake, Clayton and Rancho Santa Margarita score lowest. Signal Hill scores 74.99, while Canyon Lake scores 1.01.

These scores compare cities with each other. They show where conditions around Halloween look riskiest and where they look calmest.

The analysis draws on crash and crime records from the last three Halloween seasons and annual crash counts for 2021 through 2025. All five measures receive equal weight.

These rankings describe relative safety conditions during the broader Halloween season and year-round background conditions. They do not measure a person’s chance of being injured on Halloween night or establish which individual neighborhoods are safest for trick-or-treating.

Key takeaways

Signal Hill, Beverly Hills and Malibu have the highest overall Danger Scores. Canyon Lake, Clayton and Rancho Santa Margarita have the lowest.
Five of the ten highest-scoring cities are in Los Angeles County: Signal Hill, Beverly Hills, Malibu, West Hollywood and El Segundo.
Signal Hill has the highest seasonal crash rate and long-term annual crash rate among the ranked cities.
Central Valley cities appear at both ends of the list. Modesto ranks 17th most dangerous and Turlock 35th, while Newman, Reedley and Sanger rank among the safest 25.
All five factors receive equal weight. Scores compare cities with complete, internally consistent data and populations of at least 10,000, subject to the exclusions explained below.
Of the 40 cities with 10,000 or more residents that are not ranked, 36 have missing or incomplete records, two are excluded as industrial cities and two have counts we could not verify. Each is listed with its reason at the end of this report.

The most dangerous California cities for Halloween

Signal Hill leads the index with a Danger Score of 74.99. Its mean seasonal fatal and injury crash rate is 162.72 per 100,000 residents, and its long-term average annual crash rate is 1,344.63 per 100,000. Both are the highest among the ranked cities. Those measures count collisions rather than the number of people killed or injured.

Beverly Hills ranks second with a score of 72.17. Its mean seasonal crash rate is 134.42 per 100,000, and its pedestrian-involved crash rate is 13.44. Malibu ranks third at 57.26, driven by the highest alcohol-involved seasonal crash rate among the ranked cities, 15.58 per 100,000.

The factors do not produce identical rankings. West Hollywood has the highest pedestrian-involved seasonal rate, and Emeryville has the highest October reported crime rate among the ranked cities. Their overall positions reflect all five measures together.

Ten highest Danger Scores among 336 California cities: Signal Hill 74.99, Beverly Hills 72.17, Malibu 57.26, West Hollywood 53.72, Eureka 53.34, Emeryville 50.29, El Segundo 45.98, San Rafael 45.76, Montclair 45.46 and Colton 42.64.

The ten highest Danger Scores in the California Halloween safety index. Scores are rounded to two decimal places.

The 25 most dangerous cities

Rank	City	County	Danger Score
1	Signal Hill	Los Angeles	74.99
2	Beverly Hills	Los Angeles	72.17
3	Malibu	Los Angeles	57.26
4	West Hollywood	Los Angeles	53.72
5	Eureka	Humboldt	53.34
6	Emeryville	Alameda	50.29
7	El Segundo	Los Angeles	45.98
8	San Rafael	Marin	45.76
9	Montclair	San Bernardino	45.46
10	Colton	San Bernardino	42.64
11	National City	San Diego	42.00
12	Sacramento	Sacramento	41.39
13	Monterey	Monterey	40.05
14	Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	39.97
15	Los Alamitos	Orange	39.88
16	San Bernardino	San Bernardino	39.29
17	Modesto	Stanislaus	39.12
18	Oakland	Alameda	38.96
19	Ontario	San Bernardino	38.54
20	Berkeley	Alameda	37.98
21	Clearlake	Lake	37.05
22	Santa Monica	Los Angeles	36.94
23	Pomona	Los Angeles	36.28
24	Monrovia	Los Angeles	36.06
25	Laguna Beach	Orange	35.34

Higher Danger Scores indicate less favorable conditions in this index. A score of 74.99 is not a 74.99 percent probability of harm.

The safest California cities for Halloween

Canyon Lake has the lowest Danger Score at 1.01, followed by Clayton at 1.23 and Rancho Santa Margarita at 1.76. Canyon Lake’s mean seasonal crash rate is 3.06 per 100,000 residents.

Clayton has no fatal or injury crashes recorded in the TIMS download for the three study windows. Its score is still above zero because the index also includes long-term crashes and October crime. An absence of crashes in this export does not establish that a city had no property-damage-only collisions or no unreported incidents.

The safest 25 include cities from several parts of California. Contra Costa, Orange and Fresno counties each place three cities on the list. Brawley is the only Imperial County city on the list, while Canyon Lake and Blythe represent Riverside County.

Ten lowest Danger Scores among 336 California cities: Canyon Lake 1.01, Clayton 1.23, Rancho Santa Margarita 1.76, Blythe 3.44, Moraga 3.54, Los Altos 3.64, Yorba Linda 3.96, Susanville 4.08, Piedmont 4.47 and Poway 4.66.

The ten lowest Danger Scores in the California Halloween safety index. The two charts use different horizontal-axis ranges; both display the same 0–100 score.

The 25 safest cities

Rank	City	County	Danger Score
1	Canyon Lake	Riverside	1.01
2	Clayton	Contra Costa	1.23
3	Rancho Santa Margarita	Orange	1.76
4	Blythe	Riverside	3.44
5	Moraga	Contra Costa	3.54
6	Los Altos	Santa Clara	3.64
7	Yorba Linda	Orange	3.96
8	Susanville	Lassen	4.08
9	Piedmont	Alameda	4.47
10	Poway	San Diego	4.66
11	Brawley	Imperial	4.76
12	Scotts Valley	Santa Cruz	5.12
13	Lincoln	Placer	5.24
14	Newman	Stanislaus	5.28
15	Santee	San Diego	5.30
16	Walnut	Los Angeles	5.34
17	Parlier	Fresno	5.50
18	Danville	Contra Costa	5.54
19	Sanger	Fresno	5.65
20	Saratoga	Santa Clara	5.73
21	California City	Kern	5.82
22	Reedley	Fresno	5.89
23	Hillsborough	San Mateo	5.90
24	Soledad	Monterey	5.97
25	Laguna Woods	Orange	6.02

How Central Valley cities compare

The results show substantial variation within the Central Valley. Modesto places 17th and Turlock 35th on the most dangerous list, Bakersfield and Fresno sit near the middle at 103rd and 104th, and Hanford ranks 248th. Among the six cities below, Turlock has the highest Danger Score and Hanford the lowest.

City	Danger rank out of 336	Danger Score
Turlock	35	32.77
Bakersfield	103	24.08
Fresno	104	24.03
Madera	162	19.67
Visalia	171	19.04
Hanford	248	13.24

Danger rank 1 is the highest-scoring city. These positions reflect the five-factor index; they do not measure Halloween-night incidents alone.

How we built the rankings

Maison Law scored 336 incorporated California cities with populations of at least 10,000 in 2025 that had complete, internally consistent data for all five factors. Another 40 cities of that size are not ranked and are listed with the reason at the end of this report. Commerce and Santa Fe Springs were excluded as industrial cities, where per-resident rates are not comparable with those of other cities.

For the crash and crime factors, we divided each year’s count by that year’s city population and multiplied by 100,000. We then averaged the annual rates. Each factor was min–max normalized across the ranked cities, placing the lowest observed rate at 0 and the highest at 1. The Danger Score is the mean of the five normalized factors multiplied by 100.

Before scoring, we reviewed every city’s data for signs of incomplete reporting. We left out cities that failed the review rather than treat missing records as safe conditions. For crashes, we compiled every fatal and injury crash record in TIMS for 2020 through 2025. We excluded 18 cities that showed almost no recorded crashes, years with no crashes at all, or sudden permanent changes in their annual counts. Examples include Calexico, Rancho Palos Verdes and Gardena. Five of those cities (Folsom, Culver City, Lemon Grove, Santa Paula and Burbank) were excluded because their 2025 counts fell far below earlier years, and TIMS labels 2025 data as provisional. For crime, we followed the limitations California DOJ publishes for individual agencies and excluded seven cities with documented gaps in their 2023 records: Cathedral City, Garden Grove, Imperial, Lompoc, Orange, Santa Cruz and West Sacramento. Delano, Dinuba and Montebello did not have complete crash records in 2021 and 2022, so their long-term average uses 2023 through 2025. Avenal and Kerman were left out because we could not verify their very low counts.

Factor	Measure	Weight
Seasonal crashes	Mean fatal and injury crash rate for the supplied October and adjacent-weekend windows in 2023–2025.	1/5
Alcohol-involved crashes	Same windows and calculation, limited to crashes marked alcohol-involved in TIMS.	1/5
Pedestrian-involved crashes	Same windows and calculation, limited to crashes involving pedestrians.	1/5
Long-term crashes	Mean annual fatal and injury crash rate for 2021–2025. Delano, Dinuba and Montebello use 2023–2025 because their early records are incomplete.	1/5
October crime	Mean October reported violent-plus-property-crime rate for 2023–2025.	1/5

Each factor receives exactly one-fifth of the total weight, or 20 percent. Seasonal alcohol and pedestrian crashes are subsets of the overall seasonal crash count and may overlap. This deliberate weighting gives the three seasonal traffic measures 60 percent of the total score, with another 20 percent assigned to long-term crashes.

Study periods and data sources

The seasonal crash windows are October 1–31, 2023; October 1–November 3, 2024; and October 1–November 2, 2025. We retained the extra weekend days in the TIMS download. These are mean rates per study window, not daily rates; the longer windows provide more days in which a crash could occur. Crime records cover October only in each of the three years. The long-term crash factor averages each city’s annual rate for 2021 through 2025, except Delano, Dinuba and Montebello, which use 2023 through 2025. Across the three seasonal windows, TIMS records 49,470 fatal and injury crashes statewide, including 37,118 inside incorporated cities.

Crash data come from UC Berkeley’s Transportation Injury Mapping System, using CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System. We downloaded all TIMS crash records for 2020 through 2025 on October 16, 2026, and every crash figure in this report comes from that download. Crime data come from California DOJ OpenJustice, and yearly city populations come from California Department of Finance E-5 estimates.

What these rankings can and cannot show

TIMS contains fatal and injury collisions for this analysis, excluding property-damage-only collisions. TIMS labels crash records for 2025 and later as provisional, so 2025 counts may rise as CHP data entry catches up. Counts reflect the October 16, 2026 download.
The alcohol-involved flag means at least one party had been drinking. It does not necessarily establish legal intoxication, a DUI conviction or that alcohol caused the collision.
Crime counts reflect reported incidents assigned to a matched city reporting agency. They are not counts of Halloween-only offenses. Shared sheriff, transit, campus and other agency totals were not assigned to individual cities.
Rates use resident populations, not traffic volumes, visitor counts or miles traveled. Small cities and places with substantial commuter or visitor activity can have high per-resident rates.
Missing crime or population data are not zeros. Cities lacking required inputs were excluded rather than given artificially low scores, and a city’s absence from the rankings does not mean it is safe or dangerous. Cities with zero or unusually low TIMS counts were checked against six years of data and left out when the pattern pointed to incomplete reporting.
Rankings are sensitive to scoring choices. Re-scoring with percentile ranks instead of min–max normalization keeps 21 of the 25 most dangerous cities and 21 of the 25 safest, but changes the order within the lists, so ranks are best read as approximate.

Planning a safer Halloween

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warns drivers to expect pedestrians in unusual places around Halloween, including children who may enter the road unexpectedly. Its Halloween guidance also emphasizes arranging a sober ride before drinking.

Drivers: Slow down, scan for people walking and stay alert for children near residential streets and crossings.
Families and pedestrians: Travel with a buddy or group, obey traffic signals and use crosswalks or intersections when possible. Check for vehicles coming from every direction.
Partygoers and hosts: Choose a sober driver or arrange a taxi or rideshare before drinking. Hosts should help guests make a safe plan to get home.

A city’s rank cannot replace attention to the route, lighting, crossings and traffic conditions where you will actually be walking or driving. The findings offer a starting point for understanding local patterns and planning ahead.

Full rankings for all 336 cities

Search this table for any city. Rank 1 is the highest Danger Score. Rank 336 is the lowest. Scores are rounded to two decimal places. An asterisk marks Delano, Dinuba and Montebello, whose long-term crash average uses 2023 through 2025.

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Rank	City	County	Danger Score
1	Signal Hill	Los Angeles	74.99
2	Beverly Hills	Los Angeles	72.17
3	Malibu	Los Angeles	57.26
4	West Hollywood	Los Angeles	53.72
5	Eureka	Humboldt	53.34
6	Emeryville	Alameda	50.29
7	El Segundo	Los Angeles	45.98
8	San Rafael	Marin	45.76
9	Montclair	San Bernardino	45.46
10	Colton	San Bernardino	42.64
11	National City	San Diego	42.00
12	Sacramento	Sacramento	41.39
13	Monterey	Monterey	40.05
14	Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	39.97
15	Los Alamitos	Orange	39.88
16	San Bernardino	San Bernardino	39.29
17	Modesto	Stanislaus	39.12
18	Oakland	Alameda	38.96
19	Ontario	San Bernardino	38.54
20	Berkeley	Alameda	37.98
21	Clearlake	Lake	37.05
22	Santa Monica	Los Angeles	36.94
23	Pomona	Los Angeles	36.28
24	Monrovia	Los Angeles	36.06
25	Laguna Beach	Orange	35.34
26	Redlands	San Bernardino	35.30
27	Fairfield	Solano	34.92
28	Marysville	Yuba	34.64
29	San Leandro	Alameda	34.56
30	Long Beach	Los Angeles	34.27
31	San Francisco	San Francisco	34.08
32	Riverside	Riverside	33.48
33	San Gabriel	Los Angeles	33.04
34	Pasadena	Los Angeles	33.02
35	Turlock	Stanislaus	32.77
36	Seaside	Monterey	32.75
37	Red Bluff	Tehama	32.43
38	Anaheim	Orange	32.06
39	Oroville	Butte	31.97
40	San Buenaventura (Ventura)	Ventura	31.83
41	El Monte	Los Angeles	31.81
42	Palm Springs	Riverside	31.77
43	Upland	San Bernardino	31.65
44	Jurupa Valley	Riverside	31.54
45	La Palma	Orange	31.43
46	San Pablo	Contra Costa	31.17
47	Santa Maria	Santa Barbara	31.01
48	Monterey Park	Los Angeles	30.37
49	Pleasant Hill	Contra Costa	30.33
50	Newport Beach	Orange	29.98
51	Stockton	San Joaquin	29.86
52	Bell	Los Angeles	29.78
53	Oxnard	Ventura	29.77
54	Lancaster	Los Angeles	29.67
55	South El Monte	Los Angeles	29.63
56	Escondido	San Diego	29.19
57	Bell Gardens	Los Angeles	29.12
58	Huntington Park	Los Angeles	29.08
59	Inglewood	Los Angeles	29.07
60	El Cajon	San Diego	28.73
61	Dixon	Solano	28.63
62	San Jacinto	Riverside	28.47
63	Santa Ana	Orange	28.16
64	Oceanside	San Diego	27.85
65	Merced	Merced	27.71
66	Rosemead	Los Angeles	27.67
67	South San Francisco	San Mateo	27.51
68	Goleta	Santa Barbara	27.17
69	South Gate	Los Angeles	27.07
70	Baldwin Park	Los Angeles	27.06
71	Norwalk	Los Angeles	27.03
72	Rialto	San Bernardino	26.80
73	La Mesa	San Diego	26.78
74	Vallejo	Solano	26.67
75	Cerritos	Los Angeles	26.65
76	Albany	Alameda	26.25
77	Hawthorne	Los Angeles	26.16
78	San Marino	Los Angeles	26.14
79	Huntington Beach	Orange	25.98
80	Fullerton	Orange	25.92
81	Diamond Bar	Los Angeles	25.90
82	Hesperia	San Bernardino	25.77
83	Bellflower	Los Angeles	25.74
84	San Diego	San Diego	25.70
85	Concord	Contra Costa	25.64
86	Lathrop	San Joaquin	25.59
87	Ceres	Stanislaus	25.57
88	Compton	Los Angeles	25.44
89	Montebello*	Los Angeles	25.34
90	Paramount	Los Angeles	25.33
91	Perris	Riverside	25.03
92	Redding	Shasta	25.01
93	San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo	24.80
94	Encinitas	San Diego	24.71
95	Artesia	Los Angeles	24.68
96	Norco	Riverside	24.36
97	Claremont	Los Angeles	24.30
98	Yucca Valley	San Bernardino	24.28
99	Farmersville	Tulare	24.26
100	Rancho Cordova	Sacramento	24.19
101	Porterville	Tulare	24.09
102	Yuba City	Sutter	24.09
103	Bakersfield	Kern	24.08
104	Fresno	Fresno	24.03
105	Lynwood	Los Angeles	23.88
106	Richmond	Contra Costa	23.81
107	Lakewood	Los Angeles	23.75
108	Thousand Oaks	Ventura	23.55
109	Calimesa	Riverside	23.36
110	Whittier	Los Angeles	23.32
111	Healdsburg	Sonoma	22.94
112	Moreno Valley	Riverside	22.94
113	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	22.92
114	San Jose	Santa Clara	22.88
115	Buena Park	Orange	22.79
116	Riverbank	Stanislaus	22.75
117	San Dimas	Los Angeles	22.74
118	Maywood	Los Angeles	22.61
119	Watsonville	Santa Cruz	22.52
120	San Fernando	Los Angeles	22.47
121	Palm Desert	Riverside	22.37
122	Benicia	Solano	22.31
123	Corona	Riverside	22.09
124	Roseville	Placer	22.07
125	Sonoma	Sonoma	21.87
126	Glendora	Los Angeles	21.81
127	Novato	Marin	21.79
128	Murrieta	Riverside	21.78
129	Highland	San Bernardino	21.76
130	Lake Elsinore	Riverside	21.72
131	Alameda	Alameda	21.72
132	San Juan Capistrano	Orange	21.66
133	Salinas	Monterey	21.63
134	Menlo Park	San Mateo	21.51
135	Arcadia	Los Angeles	21.40
136	Davis	Yolo	21.16
137	Hawaiian Gardens	Los Angeles	21.06
138	Mountain View	Santa Clara	21.05
139	Temecula	Riverside	20.99
140	Palmdale	Los Angeles	20.85
141	Carlsbad	San Diego	20.82
142	Livingston	Merced	20.79
143	Brea	Orange	20.77
144	Tustin	Orange	20.73
145	Laguna Hills	Orange	20.71
146	Petaluma	Sonoma	20.70
147	Hayward	Alameda	20.54
148	Chino	San Bernardino	20.48
149	Walnut Creek	Contra Costa	20.45
150	Manhattan Beach	Los Angeles	20.41
151	Pleasanton	Alameda	20.40
152	Hermosa Beach	Los Angeles	20.39
153	Desert Hot Springs	Riverside	20.35
154	Barstow	San Bernardino	20.25
155	Hemet	Riverside	20.19
156	Manteca	San Joaquin	20.14
157	La Quinta	Riverside	20.09
158	Citrus Heights	Sacramento	19.94
159	San Mateo	San Mateo	19.90
160	Hollister	San Benito	19.87
161	Chula Vista	San Diego	19.76
162	Madera	Madera	19.67
163	Simi Valley	Ventura	19.53
164	Napa	Napa	19.35
165	La Cañada Flintridge	Los Angeles	19.31
166	Ripon	San Joaquin	19.28
167	Livermore	Alameda	19.12
168	San Clemente	Orange	19.11
169	Glendale	Los Angeles	19.09
170	Carson	Los Angeles	19.09
171	Visalia	Tulare	19.04
172	Rancho Mirage	Riverside	18.93
173	Camarillo	Ventura	18.86
174	South Lake Tahoe	El Dorado	18.78
175	Seal Beach	Orange	18.76
176	Lawndale	Los Angeles	18.74
177	Fillmore	Ventura	18.55
178	Suisun City	Solano	18.53
179	El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)	San Luis Obispo	18.52
180	Pinole	Contra Costa	18.50
181	Pico Rivera	Los Angeles	18.50
182	Burlingame	San Mateo	18.48
183	Vacaville	Solano	18.42
184	Redondo Beach	Los Angeles	18.34
185	Dana Point	Orange	18.32
186	Antioch	Contra Costa	18.25
187	Sunnyvale	Santa Clara	18.23
188	Redwood City	San Mateo	18.22
189	Azusa	Los Angeles	18.22
190	Victorville	San Bernardino	18.19
191	Fremont	Alameda	18.16
192	Torrance	Los Angeles	18.09
193	Vista	San Diego	17.98
194	Arcata	Humboldt	17.84
195	King City	Monterey	17.77
196	La Verne	Los Angeles	17.72
197	Pittsburg	Contra Costa	17.65
198	Union City	Alameda	17.55
199	La Habra	Orange	17.45
200	Woodland	Yolo	17.43
201	Brentwood	Contra Costa	17.11
202	Covina	Los Angeles	17.02
203	Placentia	Orange	16.98
204	Banning	Riverside	16.98
205	Loma Linda	San Bernardino	16.86
206	Mill Valley	Marin	16.85
207	Milpitas	Santa Clara	16.69
208	Kingsburg	Fresno	16.40
209	Ukiah	Mendocino	16.39
210	Rancho Cucamonga	San Bernardino	16.26
211	Fontana	San Bernardino	16.11
212	El Centro	Imperial	16.05
213	Santa Rosa	Sonoma	15.97
214	Duarte	Los Angeles	15.95
215	Daly City	San Mateo	15.80
216	Newark	Alameda	15.70
217	Stanton	Orange	15.66
218	Yucaipa	San Bernardino	15.64
219	Santa Clara	Santa Clara	15.61
220	Tehachapi	Kern	15.44
221	Gilroy	Santa Clara	15.43
222	La Puente	Los Angeles	15.39
223	Menifee	Riverside	15.36
224	Oakdale	Stanislaus	15.35
225	Agoura Hills	Los Angeles	15.34
226	Alhambra	Los Angeles	15.31
227	Solana Beach	San Diego	15.25
228	Arroyo Grande	San Luis Obispo	15.21
229	Rohnert Park	Sonoma	15.14
230	West Covina	Los Angeles	14.96
231	Campbell	Santa Clara	14.90
232	Grover Beach	San Luis Obispo	14.62
233	Delano*	Kern	14.52
234	Grand Terrace	San Bernardino	14.31
235	San Bruno	San Mateo	14.29
236	Calabasas	Los Angeles	14.26
237	Apple Valley	San Bernardino	14.23
238	San Marcos	San Diego	14.18
239	Chico	Butte	14.15
240	Auburn	Placer	14.08
241	Truckee	Nevada	14.04
242	Pacifica	San Mateo	13.83
243	East Palo Alto	San Mateo	13.79
244	Los Gatos	Santa Clara	13.73
245	Galt	Sacramento	13.69
246	Chowchilla	Madera	13.59
247	Coronado	San Diego	13.52
248	Hanford	Kings	13.24
249	Tracy	San Joaquin	13.22
250	Patterson	Stanislaus	12.97
251	Atwater	Merced	12.83
252	Clovis	Fresno	12.81
253	Atascadero	San Luis Obispo	12.76
254	Palo Alto	Santa Clara	12.71
255	Santa Clarita	Los Angeles	12.66
256	Morgan Hill	Santa Clara	12.48
257	Lake Forest	Orange	12.33
258	Placerville	El Dorado	12.21
259	Belmont	San Mateo	12.12
260	Marina	Monterey	12.02
261	Cudahy	Los Angeles	11.89
262	Shafter	Kern	11.86
263	La Mirada	Los Angeles	11.71
264	Indio	Riverside	11.66
265	South Pasadena	Los Angeles	11.62
266	Adelanto	San Bernardino	11.61
267	Elk Grove	Sacramento	11.50
268	Irvine	Orange	11.44
269	Coachella	Riverside	11.32
270	Hercules	Contra Costa	11.29
271	Selma	Fresno	11.27
272	Foster City	San Mateo	11.17
273	Cypress	Orange	11.05
274	Martinez	Contra Costa	10.88
275	Mission Viejo	Orange	10.87
276	Pacific Grove	Monterey	10.69
277	Greenfield	Monterey	10.68
278	Port Hueneme	Ventura	10.57
279	Lemoore	Kings	10.42
280	Grass Valley	Nevada	10.39
281	Corcoran	Kings	10.38
282	Dublin	Alameda	10.38
283	Carpinteria	Santa Barbara	10.36
284	Ridgecrest	Kern	10.33
285	Wildomar	Riverside	10.26
286	Temple City	Los Angeles	10.17
287	El Cerrito	Contra Costa	9.87
288	Eastvale	Riverside	9.84
289	Laguna Niguel	Orange	9.78
290	Cupertino	Santa Clara	9.63
291	Oakley	Contra Costa	9.47
292	Morro Bay	San Luis Obispo	9.46
293	Windsor	Sonoma	9.44
294	Lafayette	Contra Costa	9.28
295	Moorpark	Ventura	9.25
296	Rocklin	Placer	9.24
297	Dinuba*	Tulare	8.64
298	Beaumont	Riverside	8.18
299	Imperial Beach	San Diego	8.09
300	Sierra Madre	Los Angeles	7.97
301	San Ramon	Contra Costa	7.86
302	American Canyon	Napa	7.71
303	Anderson	Shasta	7.27
304	Lindsay	Tulare	7.08
305	Mendota	Fresno	7.08
306	Aliso Viejo	Orange	7.06
307	Tulare	Tulare	7.00
308	Twentynine Palms	San Bernardino	6.65
309	Chino Hills	San Bernardino	6.52
310	Orinda	Contra Costa	6.42
311	Palos Verdes Estates	Los Angeles	6.13
312	Laguna Woods	Orange	6.02
313	Soledad	Monterey	5.97
314	Hillsborough	San Mateo	5.90
315	Reedley	Fresno	5.89
316	California City	Kern	5.82
317	Saratoga	Santa Clara	5.73
318	Sanger	Fresno	5.65
319	Danville	Contra Costa	5.54
320	Parlier	Fresno	5.50
321	Walnut	Los Angeles	5.34
322	Santee	San Diego	5.30
323	Newman	Stanislaus	5.28
324	Lincoln	Placer	5.24
325	Scotts Valley	Santa Cruz	5.12
326	Brawley	Imperial	4.76
327	Poway	San Diego	4.66
328	Piedmont	Alameda	4.47
329	Susanville	Lassen	4.08
330	Yorba Linda	Orange	3.96
331	Los Altos	Santa Clara	3.64
332	Moraga	Contra Costa	3.54
333	Blythe	Riverside	3.44
334	Rancho Santa Margarita	Orange	1.76
335	Clayton	Contra Costa	1.23
336	Canyon Lake	Riverside	1.01

Cities with 10,000 or more residents that are not ranked

These cities have 10,000 or more residents but are not ranked. A city’s absence from the rankings does not mean it is safe or dangerous.

City	County	Reason
Arvin	Kern	No DOJ crime data for 2023 to 2025
Avenal	Kings	Very low crash and crime counts could not be verified
Burbank	Los Angeles	2025 crash counts far below earlier years (2025 is provisional)
Calexico	Imperial	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS
Cathedral City	Riverside	DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Coalinga	Fresno	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS
Commerce	Los Angeles	Excluded as an industrial city
Costa Mesa	Orange	DOJ crime data missing for October 2023
Culver City	Los Angeles	2025 crash counts far below earlier years (2025 is provisional)
Downey	Los Angeles	No DOJ crime data for 2024
Exeter	Tulare	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS
Folsom	Sacramento	2025 crash counts far below earlier years (2025 is provisional)
Fortuna	Humboldt	Crash counts drop sharply and stay low in TIMS
Fountain Valley	Orange	Crash counts drop sharply and stay low in TIMS
Garden Grove	Orange	DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Gardena	Los Angeles	Crash counts drop sharply and stay low in TIMS
Half Moon Bay	San Mateo	No city-level DOJ crime records
Imperial	Imperial	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS; DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Kerman	Fresno	Very low crash counts could not be verified
Larkspur	Marin	Crime reported through a regional police authority
Lemon Grove	San Diego	2025 crash counts far below earlier years (2025 is provisional)
Lodi	San Joaquin	No DOJ crime data for 2023
Lomita	Los Angeles	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS
Lompoc	Santa Barbara	DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Los Banos	Merced	Crash counts drop sharply and stay low in TIMS
McFarland	Kern	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS
Millbrae	San Mateo	No city-level DOJ crime records
Mountain House	San Joaquin	No population history before 2024
Orange	Orange	DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Rancho Palos Verdes	Los Angeles	Almost no crashes recorded in TIMS
Rio Vista	Solano	Crash counts drop sharply and stay low in TIMS
San Anselmo	Marin	Crime reported through a regional police authority
San Carlos	San Mateo	No city-level DOJ crime records
Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Santa Fe Springs	Los Angeles	Excluded as an industrial city
Santa Paula	Ventura	2025 crash counts far below earlier years (2025 is provisional)
Shasta Lake	Shasta	No matching city crime records in DOJ data
Wasco	Kern	DOJ crime reporting began in June 2024
West Sacramento	Yolo	DOJ documents gaps in 2023 crime data
Westminster	Orange	Crash counts drop sharply and stay low in TIMS