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(KRON) — Two of the best cities to retire in the United States are in the Bay Area, according to a recent study. Walnut Creek was ranked 16th, and Novato was ranked 18th as the “safest and ...
Bay Area cities are named in a new list of the safest and wealthiest retirement locations in America.
In general, cities in the Bay Area have low violent crime rates, low rates of drug use and relatively low rates of deadly traffic accidents.
It was in the 1980s and '90s that companies like Apple began to build manufacturing plants in the area, and by the early 2000s, more than 750 tech companies had opened facilities in this Bay Area ...
San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay estuaries in Northern California. According to the 2010 United States Census, the region has over 7.1 million inhabitants and approximately 6,900 square miles (18,000 km 2) of land. [1]
The fact that the average city had crime rates similar to the state in contrast to the lower median rates indicates the presence of outliers with high crime rates. Indeed, the 66th percentile for violent crime rates was 3.69 crimes per 1,000 people, still not as high as the average crime rate among cities (the 33rd percentile was 1.81).
In 2015, 45 Bay Area cities counted zero homicides, the largest of which was Daly City. [165] In 2015, Oakland also saw the highest rates of property crime in the Bay Area, at 59.4 incidents per thousand residents, with San Francisco following close behind at 53 incidents per thousand residents.
From 1995 through 2006, City Crime Rankings was published by Lawrence, Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press.The publisher was acquired in June 2007 by CQ Press [2] The 14th annual edition of City Crime Rankings was published in November 2007, and contains over 100 tables and figures detailing crime trends in cities and metropolitan areas across America.