TABLE 1: MOST DANGEROUS CALIFORNIA COUNTIES FOR PEDESTRIANS 2001

2001 RANK**

County

Pedestrian

Fatalities

 2001 (1)

Pedestrian

Injuries

 2001 (1)

Population

2001 (2)

Pedestrian

Incident

Rate

2001

Pedestrian

 Exposure

Index (3)

Pedestrian

Danger

 Index

2001

1

SOLANO

6

139

405,800

35.7

1.6

100

2

SACRAMENTO

30

551

1,279,900

45.4

2.1

96.8

3

LOS ANGELES

233

5,685

9,824,800

60.2

2.9

93.0

4

CONTRA COSTA

14

289

981,600

30.9

1.5

92.2

5

SAN JOAQUIN

17

248

596,000

44.5

2.3

86.6

6

SAN MATEO

6

280

717,000

39.9

2.1

85.1

7

SANTA CLARA

22

563

1,719,600

34.0

1.8

84.6

8

STANISLAUS

14

184

469,500

42.2

2.4

78.7

9

KERN

16

210

687,600

32.9

1.9

77.5

10

ALAMEDA

24

775

1,486,600

53.7

3.2

75.2

11

ORANGE

54

892

2,939,500

32.2

2.0

72.1

12

VENTURA

13

240

780,100

32.4

2.1

69.2

13

MERCED

11

72

218,900

37.9

3.0

56.6

14

SAN FRANCISCO

20

922

793,600

118.7

9.4

56.5

15

RIVERSIDE

35

358

1,644,300

23.9

1.9

56.3

16

SAN BERNARDINO

52

480

1,783,700

29.8

2.4

55.6

17

MARIN

4

86

249,900

36.0

3.0

53.8

18

MADERA

5

32

129,700

28.5

2.4

53.2

19

SAN DIEGO

66

1,106

2,918,300

40.2

3.4

52.9

20

SHASTA

2

40

169,200

24.8

2.2

50.5

21

FRESNO

18

204

826,600

26.9

2.4

50.1

22

TULARE

8

98

379,200

28.0

2.5

50.1

23

PLACER

5

42

264,900

17.7

1.7

46.7

24

SONOMA

6

142

471,000

31.4

3.1

45.4

25

SANTA BARBARA

6

153

407,900

39.0

4.0

43.6

26

BUTTE

2

61

207,000

30.4

3.4

40.1

27

SANTA CRUZ

3

97

260,200

38.4

4.4

39.1

28

YOLO

1

56

176,300

32.3

3.8

38.1

29

EL DORADO

2

28

163,600

18.3

2.2

37.3

30

IMPERIAL

1

45

150,800

30.5

3.7

36.9

31

NAPA

2

38

128,000

31.3

4.1

34.1

32

KINGS

3

30

133,100

24.8

3.3

33.6

33

HUMBOLDT

3

56

127,700

46.2

6.5

31.8

34

MONTEREY

3

105

409,600

26.4

3.8

31.1

35

SAN LUIS OBISPO

2

34

253,600

14.2

3.7

17.2

 

CALIFORNIA

721

14,545

35,037,000

43.6

2.9

67.3

 

** Rankings based on 2000 Census Journey to Work statistics

(1) 2001 Provisional numbers from the California Highway Patrol's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System

(2) State of California, Department of Finance, E-1 City/County Population Estimates. Sacramento, California, May 2002

     (www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/DEMOGRAP/E-1table.xls)

(3) 2000 Census; Journey to Work Statistics