Decision-support ranking comparing California cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevada City Violent Crime moved up by 13.6 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2022 to 14.5 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
14.5 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Red Bluff Violent Crime has increased 26% since 2022. |
13.2 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Emeryville Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2022. |
12.3 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Lakeport Violent Crime has increased 29% since 2022. |
11.2 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Alpine Violent Crime moved up by 8.1 / 1k from 2.4 / 1k in 2022 to 10.5 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
10.5 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Barstow Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
10.4 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Eureka Violent Crime moved up by 8.5 / 1k from 1.6 / 1k in 2022 to 10.1 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
10.1 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Oroville Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2022. |
9.9 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Stockton Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
9.8 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Richmond Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2022. |
9.2 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Santa Fe Springs Violent Crime has increased 221% since 2022. |
9.0 / 1k | → |
| 12 | South Lake Tahoe Violent Crime moved up by 5.8 / 1k from 2.3 / 1k in 2022 to 8.1 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
8.1 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Merced Violent Crime has increased 21% since 2022. |
8.0 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Signal Hill Violent Crime has increased 200% since 2022. |
7.8 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Anderson Violent Crime has increased 33% since 2022. |
7.6 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Vallejo Violent Crime moved up by 5.9 / 1k from 1.6 / 1k in 2022 to 7.5 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
7.5 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Fresno Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2022. |
7.4 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Atwater Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2022. |
7.3 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Costa Mesa Violent Crime moved up by 5.9 / 1k from 1.3 / 1k in 2023 to 7.2 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
7.2 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Sacramento Violent Crime moved up by 5.9 / 1k from 1.3 / 1k in 2022 to 7.2 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
7.2 / 1k | → |
| 21 | National City Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021. |
7.1 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Chico Violent Crime has increased 49% since 2023. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Hawthorne Violent Crime has increased 40% since 2022. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Pomona Violent Crime has increased 200% since 2022. |
6.9 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Long Beach Violent Crime moved up by 5.2 / 1k from 1.6 / 1k in 2022 to 6.8 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
6.8 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported California cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.