{"id":505379,"date":"2026-10-23T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505379\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:32:23","slug":"elk-grove-and-roseville-among-safest-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505379\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Grove and Roseville among safest for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sacramento-area city ranked as Northern California\u2019s safest place for Halloween trick-or-treating, according to a new national study, and another local city also cracked the top 25.<\/p>\n<p>The report by SafeHome.org, a website that researches home and personal safety and reviews security products, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safehome.org\/research\/safest-cities-for-halloween\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked 152 cities<\/a> based on factors including violent and property crime rates, pedestrian fatalities, registered sex offenders and law enforcement staffing.<\/p>\n<p>Elk Grove ranked No. 12 on the national list, unchanged from 2025, and Roseville ranked No. 21, down from No. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalloween is one of the most exciting nights of the year for children, but it also comes with elevated safety risks,\u201d SafeHome said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany parents are understandably anxious about this beloved fall tradition: after all, what could possibly go wrong as kids crisscross city streets, dodge cars in the dark, and walk up to strangers\u2019 doors in search of candy?\u201d the site said.<\/p>\n<p>How did other California cities fare?<\/p>\n<p>Modesto came in at No. 85 and Sacramento at No. 120, SafeHome said.<\/p>\n<p>Fremont ranked No. 24, with Santa Rosa at No. 52, San Francisco at No. 59 and San Jose at No. 82.<\/p>\n<p>Stockton came in at No. 128 and Oakland at No. 149, both near the bottom of the 152-city ranking.<\/p>\n<p>What are the safest U.S. cities for trick-or-treating?<\/p>\n<p>Pembroke Pines, Florida, took the top spot on the list of safest Halloween cities, followed by Yonkers, New York; Frisco, Texas; Port St. Lucie, Florida; and Chandler, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Texas and Arizona had the strongest showings among states for top-ranking cities.<\/p>\n<p> Loading\u2026<\/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 Sacramento-area city ranked as Northern California\u2019s safest place for Halloween trick-or-treating, according to a new national study,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-505379","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\/505379","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=505379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}