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Sacramento, CA · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Sacramento

Sacramento ranks #69 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 49 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 49th percentile nationally and #13 of 18 in California.

safety score
49
Some Fun
National rank
#69 of 134
In California
#13 of 18
Percentile
49th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Sacramento sits 1 point 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.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Sacramento

  1. T#67 Hilton Head Island, SC 50
  2. T#67 Savannah, GA 50
  3. #69 Sacramento, CA — this page 49
  4. #70 Long Beach, CA 48
  5. T#71 Lubbock, TX 47

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 Sacramento

Sacramento scores 54 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: