Police Operations and Data Analysis Report, Morgan Hill, California
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average. The UCR Part 1 property crime rate of 1,472 crimes per 100,000 population was
40 percent below the state average and 41 percent below the national average. It is not intended
that the table of comparative crime rates be used to compare Morgan Hill against any other specific
regional city; rather, it is meant as an illustration of its crime rate in relation to the region, state, and
nation.
TABLE 2-1: Reported Crime Rates in 2014, by City, per 100,000 population
City
State
Population
Crime Rates
Violent
Property
Total
Campbell
California
40,872
198
3,396
3,594
Cupertino
California
60,564
66
1,694
1,760
East Palo Alto
California
29,377
422
1,954
2,376
Gilroy
California
52,415
376
2,835
3,211
Hollister
California
36,967
368
1,347
1,715
Los Altos
California
30,256
23
1,064
1,087
Los Gatos
California
30,614
75
2,012
2,087
Milpitas
California
70,568
159
3,020
3,178
Monterey
California
28,512
403
3,584
3,988
Mountain View
California
78,759
198
2,042
2,240
Palo Alto
California
67,169
88
1,934
2,022
Santa Cruz
California
63,440
828
5,154
5,982
Saratoga
California
31,122
61
925
986
Watsonville
California
52,778
502
2,821
3,323
Morgan Hill
California
41,585
156
1,472
1,628
California
38,970,399
389
2,430
2,819
United States
324,699,246
357
2,464
2,821
Note
: Rates are shown as crimes per 100,000 population.
Figure 2-1 depicts the nine-year trend for both violent and property crimes in Morgan Hill.
Figure 2-2 compares the nine-year trend for the overall rate of crime (violent and property
combined) in Morgan Hill and California.