(KRON) — Is Oakland a secure metropolis to drive in in comparison with different cities throughout the USA and California? A latest research by Market Watch got down to reply that query.
Info compiled within the research revealed that whereas Oakland is without doubt one of the most unsafe cities for drivers in a single facet, it grades out as above common in others.
Automotive Thefts
In line with Market Watch, Oakland has the best fee of automobile thefts of any metropolis in the USA.
There have been 5,041 automobile thefts in Oakland in 2019, in line with the FBI’s crime report. The city’s fee of 1,161.4 thefts per 100,000 individuals tops some other metropolis nationwide. For comparability, Spherical Rock, TX had the bottom automobile theft fee within the nation at 39.9 thefts per 100,000 individuals — greater than 29 occasions lower than Oakland.
The town with the second-highest automobile theft fee is Detroit. Per 100,000 individuals, Detroit’s fee is 1,037.8 thefts per 100,000 individuals.
DUI and crashes
Conversely, Market Watch’s research grades Oakland out properly in two classes. Oakland is properly under California’s common for each DUI arrests and crash fatalities.
In Oakland, there are 263.28 DUI arrests per 100,000 individuals, in line with extra information supplied to KRON4 by Market Watch. That beats California’s fee of 314 arrests per 100,000 individuals.
Per 100,000 individuals, Oakland’s fee of deadly crashes is simply 5.9. California’s state common is 10.9 and the USA common is 12.9. Oakland isn’t far off from Windfall, RI’s nation-best fee of 5.7 visitors deaths per 100,000 individuals.
Freeway shootings
Whereas Market Watch’s information didn’t embody shootings on the highway, that has emerged as a serious problem for drivers in Oakland.
KRON4 detailed a number of the freeway shootings within the Bay Space, lots of which occurred in Oakland. Interstate 580 and Interstate 880, each of which run by Oakland, have seen a minimum of 15 shootings to date in 2023.
Inside the subsequent few months, California Freeway Patrol expects to have 180 freeway cameras within the Bay Space to watch these shootings.
Methodology
To acquire deadly crash information, Market Watch used information from the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration for all cities with greater than 100,000 residents. For DUI and automobile theft data, the research used information from the FBI’s 2019 Crime in the USA report.
