TABLE 2: MOST DANGEROUS CALIFORNIA CITIES FOR PEDESTRIANS -- 2001

All California Cities Above 100,000 population as of 1/1/2002

 

 

2001

Rank

City (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

Vallejo (Solano)

3

60

118,600

53.1

1.2

100

2

Inglewood (Los Angeles)

1

85

115,100

74.7

2.0

84.4

3

Oxnard (Ventura)

2

101

182,000

56.6

1.6

79.9

4

Oceanside (San Diego)

3

66

167,200

41.3

1.3

71.7

5

Modesto (Stanislaus)

4

98

198,600

51.4

1.7

68.2

6

San Jose (Santa Clara)

14

370

918,000

41.8

1.4

67.5

7

Richmond (Contra Costa)

3

54

101,100

56.4

1.9

67.0

8

Moreno Valley (Riverside)

5

25

146,400

20.5

0.7

66.1

9

Stockton (San Joaquin)

5

158

253,800

64.2

2.2

65.9

10

Long Beach (Los Angeles)

11

322

473,100

70.4

2.5

63.6

11

Fremont (Alameda)

3

60

208,600

30.2

1.1

62.0

12

Downey (Los Angeles)

4

35

110,400

35.3

1.3

61.4

13

Fontana (San Bernardino)

5

40

139,100

32.4

1.2

60.9

14

Lancaster (Los Angeles)

2

51

123,100

43.1

1.6

60.8

15

Bakersfield (Kern)

5

80

257,900

33.0

1.3

57.3

16

Pomona (Los Angeles)

7

71

153,900

50.7

2.0

57.2

17

Norwalk (Los Angeles)

0

62

106,700

58.1

2.3

57.1

18

Daly City (San Mateo)

0

34

104,400

32.6

1.3

56.6

19

Santa Ana (Orange)

2

183

343,700

53.8

2.2

55.3

20

Chula Vista (San Diego)

3

67

190,900

36.7

1.5

55.2

21

Torrance (Los Angeles)

0

45

142,100

31.7

1.3

55.0

22

Garden Grove (Orange)

5

55

168,600

35.6

1.5

53.6

23

Sacramento (Sacramento)

12

269

426,000

66.0

2.8

53.2

24

West Covina (Los Angeles)

1

27

109,100

25.7

1.1

52.7

25

Hayward (Alameda)

1

69

144,300

48.5

2.1

52.2

26

Fairfield (Solano)

0

39

100,200

38.9

1.7

51.7

27

Ontario (San Bernardino)

5

50

162,300

33.9

1.5

51.0

28

Los Angeles (Los Angeles)

116

2,935

3,807,400

80.1

3.6

50.3

29

Oakland (Alameda)

13

321

408,800

81.7

3.7

49.9

30

Huntington Beach (Orange)

8

55

194,600

32.4

1.5

48.8

31

Rancho Cucamonga (San Bernardino)

4

25

137,100

21.2

1.0

47.8

32

Palmdale (Los Angeles)

2

24

123,700

21.0

1.0

47.5

33

Glendale (Los Angeles)

3

129

200,200

65.9

3.2

46.5

34

Santa Clarita (Los Angeles)

2

38

158,300

25.3

1.3

43.9

35

Escondido (San Diego)

4

49

137,000

38.7

2.0

43.7

36

Burbank (Los Angeles)

2

50

102,800

50.6

2.7

42.3

37

Costa Mesa (Orange)

4

45

110,700

44.3

2.4

41.7

38

Salinas (Monterey)

1

56

148,400

38.4

2.1

41.3

39

Simi Valley (Ventura)

2

19

115,500

18.2

1.0

41.1

40

Fresno (Fresno)

10

158

441,900

38.0

2.1

40.9

41

Anaheim (Orange)

5

129

334,700

40.0

2.3

39.3

42

Santa Rosa (Sonoma)

3

54

152,900

37.3

2.2

38.3

43

Ventura (Ventura)

2

42

102,300

43.0

2.6

37.4

44

Concord (Contra Costa)

3

31

123,900

27.4

1.7

36.5

45

Sunnyvale (Santa Clara)

2

30

132,800

24.1

1.5

36.3

46

San Bernardino

9

70

189,800

41.6

2.6

36.2

47

El Monte (Los Angeles)

1

80

119,500

67.8

4.3

35.6

48

San Diego (San Diego)

23

627

1,255,700

51.8

3.6

32.5

49

Corona (Riverside)

2

27

134,000

21.6

1.6

30.6

50

Fullerton (Orange)

4

50

129,300

41.8

3.2

29.5

51

San Francisco

20

922

793,600

118.7

9.4

28.5

52

Riverside (Riverside)

3

95

269,400

36.4

3.0

27.4

53

Pasadena (Los Angeles)

2

83

138,800

61.2

5.3

26.1

54

Orange (Orange)

4

37

132,900

30.9

2.9

24.0

55

Thousand Oaks (Ventura)

2

23

121,000

20.7

2.1

22.2

56

Santa Clara (Santa Clara)

1

25

104,300

24.9

3.2

17.6

57

Berkeley (Alameda)

1

106

104,600

102.3

14.9

15.5

58

Irvine (Orange)

1

23

157,500

15.2

4.8

7.2

 

 

* The California Pedestrian Danger Index is indexed in order to compare one city to another; this index is different from the county index thus city rankings cannot be compared to county rankings

 

** Rankings based on 2000 Census Journey to Work statistic

 

(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