Oakridge is a neighborhood of 11,300 residents in Bakersfield, about 4 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Oakridge in Bakersfield safe?
Oakridge is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live. Violent crime grades F and property crime D+. Bakersfield as a whole grades C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Oakridge run from B to F, so check the map below.
D-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 77 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Oakridge as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Oakridge scores 77.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Oakridge, Bakersfield, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Oakridge in Bakersfield, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Oakridge
Car thefts and aggravated assaults both run high. In Oakridge, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 10.1 car thefts and 9.5 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 2.6 nationally.
How Oakridge compares within Bakersfield
High crime is widespread across Oakridge: 88% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 2% in areas graded A or B. Grades across Oakridge run from B to F; every part of Oakridge has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
10%88%
A or B 2%C 10%D or F 88%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Oakridge has less crime than 5 of the 38 neighborhoods in Bakersfield. It covers much of the Lakeview-Bakersfield, Oakridge, and Tyner Homes areas.
Is crime going up in Bakersfield?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Bakersfield as a whole is up 19% and property crime is down 41%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.7 to 5.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 42 to 25 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 30% and property crime fell 27%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
BakersfieldUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Bakersfield. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Bakersfield
Violent, US
Property, Bakersfield
Property, US
2016
+5%
+4%
+9%
+15%
2017
+4%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
+8%
+0%
+1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+7%
+4%
-8%
-8%
2021
+20%
+6%
-6%
-10%
2022
+20%
+5%
-5%
-6%
2023
+69%
+2%
-20%
-7%
2024
+19%
-4%
-41%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Oakridge
CrimeGrade™ estimates Oakridge has about 54 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 44% more than the US as a whole and 15% more than Bakersfield as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Oakridge is assault, about 33% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Oakridge compares with nearby neighborhoods
Oakridge has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Tree cover, parking lots and walkability in Oakridge
Two things set Oakridge apart: it has tree cover over 1% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 4.1% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places with little tree cover tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 84% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 74% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (21 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 70% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Oakridge
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Oakridge about $4,266 a year per household, more than triple the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $49 million a year, or $4,335 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Oakridge means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Oakridge is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Oakridge, Bakersfield, CA average a SchoolGrade of D-: 22% of students test proficient, against 20% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Oakridge on SchoolGrade
