Safest Neighborhoods in Sacramento (2024)
Sacramento's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these SPD police beats are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The SPD police beats at the top of this list have the fewest reported incidents relative to other Sacramento SPD police beats.
Volume, not a safety rate. SPD police beat resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the SPD police beat (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Sacramento zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked lowest reported volume first
Not the same SPD police beats as the most dangerous neighborhoods in sacramento list.
- 1Beat 6C100/100
- 2Beat 7C98/100
- 3Beat 6A97/100
- 4Beat 7B93/100
- 5Beat 7A92/100
- 6Beat 1C89/100
- 7Beat 6B89/100
- 8Beat 4B87/100
- 9Beat 5A76/100
- 10Beat 5B76/100
- 11Beat 4A66/100
- 12Beat 4C66/100
- 13Beat 5C61/100
- 14Beat 1B57/100
- 15Beat 2A49/100
- 16Beat 3M45/100
- 17Beat 3B42/100
- 18Beat 2C34/100
- 19Beat 2B32/100
- 20Beat 3A32/100
- 21Beat 1A0/100
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Safest neighborhoods in Sacramento — FAQ
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →