{"id":299651,"date":"2026-05-04T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:38:06","slug":"study-lincoln-ranks-among-californias-safest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299651\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Lincoln ranks among California\u2019s safest cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Safewise analysis of per capita crime rates in California ranks a city near Sacramento as one of the safest cities in the Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln, which is about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento in Placer County, is the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.safewise.com\/research\/safest-cities\/california\/\">third-safest city<\/a> in California in 2026, the Safewise study said.<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzed crime rates as determined by the FBI per 1,000 residents for each city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other characterization of any community is implied or intended,\u201d Safewise said. The report analyzed crime rates for 169 California cities.<\/p>\n<p>LIncoln, population about 56,000, had a violent crime rate of 1.2 and a property crime rate of 7 in 2025, both per 1,000 people, Safewise said.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, California had a per capita violent crime rate of 4.24 and a per capita property crime rate of 20.84, both slightly below the average U.S.per capita rates.<\/p>\n<p>What are California\u2019s other safest cities?<\/p>\n<p>The safest city in California in 2026 is Danville, which is about 30 miles east of San Francisco, Safewise said.<\/p>\n<p>Danville dethroned Rancho Santa Margarita for the top spot. The Southern California city fell to second place on the list, just ahead of Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>Other top safest cities in California, as ranked by the study, include Moorpark, Yorba Linda, Calexico, Poway, Laguna Niguel, San Ramon and Thousand Oaks, Safewise said.<\/p>\n<p>  Loading\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174905\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Safewise analysis of per capita crime rates in California ranks a city near Sacramento as one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-299651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}