Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. This makes Salinas a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes.

NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Salinas's rate for property crime is 24 per one thousand population. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Salinas is one in 189. Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Salinas.įor Salinas, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Now let us turn to take a look at how Salinas does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. So, whether Salinas's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics. How does the crime rate in Salinas compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Salinas with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. Relative to California, Salinas has a crime rate that is higher than 81% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes. Based on FBI crime data, Salinas is not one of the safest communities in America. The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Salinas is 1 in 34. The crime rate in Salinas is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America from the largest to the smallest, although at 29 crimes per one thousand residents, it is not among the communities with the very highest crime rate.

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