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Oakland, California

POPULATION: 419,481

Oakland is Number 1 when it comes to having the highest overall crime rate in the state, and is the eighth-largest city in California. It serves as a major trade center for the Bay Area, is the busiest port for San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, the crime rate here is one of the worst in the state, making Oakland safer than only 1% (that’s a rate of 1 out of 100 according to Neighborhood Scout.com) of the cities in the United States. Violent crimes are 238% higher than the California average and 287% higher than the national average, while property crimes are 124% higher than the state’s average. Your chances of becoming a victim here are close to 1 in 14, and there are some 20 crimes per 100,000 persons that occur in the city every day.