SmartAsset Ranks California’s Safest Suburbs

Palo Alto has been named the safest suburb in California by SmartAsset.

The financial technology website compared 360 suburbs across the U.S. based on multiple public safety factors. These include violent crime rates, property crime rates, vehicular mortality rates, drug overdose deaths, and excessive drinking. 

Only suburbs with populations of at least 5,000 were considered. To qualify as a suburb, a community had to be a 15- to 45-minute drive from one of the nation’s 100 largest cities.

According to SmartAsset, these are the 25 safest suburbs in the Golden State:

1. Palo Alto

2. Mountain View

3. Pacifica

4. Livermore

5. Tiburon

6. San Mateo

7. Sausalito 

8. Redondo Beach 

9. Manhattan Beach 

10. Fullerton

11.  Brentwood 

12. Hermosa Beach

13. Santa Cruz

14. West Hollywood 

15. Roseville 

16. Ojai

17. Rocklin

18. Culver City

19. Reedley

20. Kingsburg 

21. Vacaville 

22. Folsom

23. Clovis 

24. Fallbrook 

25. Lodi

See full list and methodology here.

List and data were compiled by SmartAsset and do not represent statistics on all cities.