Table 10

CALIFORNIA
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2008
[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Counties	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny- theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	Alameda	728	5	24	287	412	2,829	626	1,386	817	24
	Butte	145	1	22	25	97	1,373	509	850	14	13
	Contra Costa	548	16	29	204	299	3,359	1,169	2,179	11	27
	El Dorado	235	7	17	21	190	2,038	738	1,286	14	20
	Fresno	652	19	30	126	477	6,121	1,735	3,472	914	280
	Imperial	121	2	7	14	98	976	315	633	28	9
	Kern	1,891	23	137	461	1,270	10,541	3,272	5,814	1,455	389
	Kings	177	3	8	18	148	607	213	332	62	10
	Los Angeles	7,362	135	232	1,967	5,028	19,893	5,311	9,200	5,382	417
	Madera	252	2	12	27	211	1,388	520	849	19	2
	Marin	148	2	10	27	109	961	286	673	2	10
	Merced	469	5	16	55	393	2,392	775	1,603	14	8
	Monterey	187	6	15	53	113	1,569	526	1,029	14	18
	Napa	60	0	5	4	51	507	187	316	4	2
	Orange	163	0	5	27	131	1,425	298	982	145	5
	Placer	296	3	21	34	238	1,939	691	1,209	39	9
	Riverside	1,515	24	82	387	1,022	13,387	3,577	7,412	2,398	43
	Sacramento	3,282	47	194	1,274	1,767	15,525	4,580	10,771	174	195
	San Benito	66	1	10	1	54	294	111	172	11	2
	San Bernardino	1,295	23	69	206	997	6,866	2,153	3,326	1,387	130
	San Diego	1,516	14	93	262	1,147	7,454	2,010	3,783	1,661	43
	San Joaquin	1,085	9	27	205	844	5,388	1,676	3,576	136	24
	San Luis Obispo	210	2	26	14	168	1,340	474	859	7	11
	San Mateo	221	5	12	45	159	1,760	190	1,293	277	9
	Santa Barbara	171	2	19	33	117	1,884	569	1,307	8	19
	Santa Clara	286	1	27	46	212	1,817	465	1,144	208	5
	Santa Cruz	332	3	32	61	236	2,298	692	1,595	11	27
	Shasta	447	1	33	19	394	1,104	526	551	27	11
	Solano	123	1	9	26	87	418	177	231	10	13
	Sonoma	631	3	34	48	546	1,628	667	940	21	19
	Stanislaus	522	4	30	118	370	3,561	1,315	1,877	369	169
	Sutter	109	0	7	9	93	719	229	449	41	5
	Tulare²	514	24	29	88	373		1,040	2,414		58
	Ventura	212	4	20	35	153	1,326	345	891	90	24
	Yolo	45	2	5	9	29	344	125	210	9	2
	Yuba	240	6	18	36	180	1,177	503	658	16	11
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Alpine	14	1	2	0	11	72	14	58	0	0
	Amador	62	0	14	5	43	609	229	366	14	3
	Calaveras	83	0	6	14	63	650	290	351	9	4
	Colusa	21	0	0	5	16	254	87	163	4	3
	Del Norte	79	0	16	9	54	293	155	134	4	4
	Glenn	8	0	0	0	8	141	51	88	2	0
	Humboldt	137	1	13	20	103	954	273	654	27	8
	Inyo	58	0	1	2	55	178	66	110	2	4
	Lake	198	3	10	21	164	859	417	435	7	9
	Lassen	34	0	7	3	24	148	54	92	2	5
	Mariposa	42	1	3	0	38	257	96	159	2	2
	Mendocino	336	5	16	34	281	632	297	331	4	17
	Modoc	18	0	3	0	15	88	34	54	0	2
	Mono	15	0	2	1	12	97	40	57	0	0
	Nevada	164	1	14	11	138	538	205	327	6	1
	Plumas	138	3	13	3	119	290	139	145	6	0
	Sierra	6	0	0	1	5	35	19	16	0	1
	Siskiyou	47	1	6	3	37	219	88	129	2	4
	Tehama	212	0	6	8	198	369	230	139	0	14
	Trinity	22	0	1	2	19	66	37	29	0	0
	Tuolumne	114	1	20	11	82	802	356	438	8	13

¹ The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.
² The motor vehicle thefts for this county are collected by the Tulare County Highway Patrol. These data can be found in Table 11.

Data Declaration

Provides the methodology used in constructing this table and other pertinent information about this table.