Oakland, CA · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Oakland

Oakland ranks T#131 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 8Quiet. That puts it in the 3rd percentile nationally and #18 of 18 in California.

safety score
8
Quiet
National rank
T#131 of 134
In California
#18 of 18
Percentile
3rd

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Oakland sits 42 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Ranked around Oakland

  1. T#128 St. Louis, MO 9
  2. T#128 Wichita, KS 9
  3. T#131 Oakland, CA — this page 8
  4. #134 Las Vegas, NV 7

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Oakland

Oakland scores 61 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: