The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Tulare, CA
Tulare is a city of 78,900 in Tulare County, about 9 miles south of downtown Visalia · Updated November 2026
Is Tulare, CA safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-, Tulare has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 77% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, B against B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Tulare run from A to F, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 605 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
23% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Tulare as a whole, and 77% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Tulare scores 605.
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 Tulare, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Tulare, 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 Tulare
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks more often than nationally. In Tulare, 45% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Tulare
Crime varies widely across Tulare: 39% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 20% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Tulare run from A to F; 13% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
39%41%20%
A or B 39%C 41%D or F 20%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Tulare, the southeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Tulare?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Tulare is up 42% and property crime is down 19%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.0 to 5.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 22 to 18 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
TulareUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Tulare. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Tulare
Violent, US
Property, Tulare
Property, US
2016
-10%
+4%
+26%
+15%
2017
+1%
+4%
+20%
+12%
2018
-2%
+0%
+26%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+9%
+4%
-4%
-8%
2021
+86%
+6%
-18%
-10%
2022
+54%
+5%
-3%
-6%
2023
+56%
+2%
-10%
-7%
2024
+42%
-4%
-19%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Tulare
CrimeGrade™ estimates Tulare has about 45 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 20% more than the US as a whole and close to California.
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.
Assault is the most common crime in Tulare, about 40% of everything reported, and it also accounts for 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.
Where and when crime happens in Tulare
Tulare has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Tulare, 44% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 31% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (44%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (31%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (39%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Tulare compares with nearby cities
Tulare has the most crime of its 6 nearest cities.
One thing sets Tulare apart: it has 29 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft and robbery, yet theft and robbery run higher here than that would suggest.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Tulare: F (5 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.7.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 75% of US city residents
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. 80% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (18 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 52% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.29 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 73% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.33% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 71% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 63% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Tulare on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Tulare
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Tulare about $2,307 a year per household, 91% more than 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 $203 million a year, or $2,567 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$15 million
$191
Rape
$3.0 million
$38
Robbery
$2.2 million
$28
Assault
$17 million
$217
Burglary
$2.1 million
$27
Theft
$4.9 million
$61
Vehicle theft
$4.2 million
$53
Arson
$620,000
$8
Vandalism
$3.7 million
$47
Total
$53 million
$671
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 Tulare 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.
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 Tulare, CA average a SchoolGrade of C-: 30% of students test proficient, against 26% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Tulare on SchoolGrade
