• How Safe Is Wildomar?

There's always room for improvement, but based on the stats from Safewise.com, it's time thrust out our chests and stand proud and tall!

As you can see in the image, Wildomar jumped up 21 spots to hit #22.

Gotta love being ranked above places like Dana Point, Eastvale and Irvine. Not to mention that Temecula, Menifee, Canyon Lake and Lake Elsinore didn't even make the list.

The only local city that ranked safer than Wildomar was Murrieta. 

California’s 50 Safest Cities of 2022

(the population is followed by the median income)

#1 Danville   44K   $160K

#2 Rancho Santa Margarita    47K   $121K

#3 Moorpark     36K    $107K

#4 Aliso Viejo    51K    $112K

#5 Yorba Linda    68K    $129K

#6 Laguna Niguel    66K    $108K

#7 Poway         49K     $107k

#8 Mission Viejo      94K     $118K 

#9 Rancho Palos Verdes   41k    $138K

#10 Thousand Oaks     126K    $109K

#11 San Ramon     76K     $109K

#12 Murrieta     117K     $90K

#13 Santa Clarita      221K     $99K

#14 Lake Forest     86K      $109K

#15 Temple City    35K     $78K

#16 Lincoln     48K     $88K

#17 Camarillo    70K    $93K

#18 Chino Hills     84K     $106K

#19 Oakley     42K    $104K

#20 San Juan Cap    36K   $91K

#21 Simi Valley   125K    $99K

#22 Wildomar  37K $74K

#23 San Marcos     98K    $80K

#24 Dana Point     33K    $99K

#25 Irvine     297K    $105K

#26 Eastvale      65K    $119K

#27 Santee        58K    $87K

#28 Encinitas     63K    $116K

#29 Cupertino     59K    $171K

#30 Folsom      82K    $114

As it happens, I had made a screenshot from 2021 when we were ranked #43.

It takes a team effort to make a city safer. It starts with the desires (the demands) of the residents and it takes a responsive city council that listens and changes the policies that need tweaking (beefed up code enforcement working as a team with RSO and SWAG). 

Though I've never met a single person that enjoys paying taxes, the big turning point was when the voters chose to add an additional penny per dollar sales tax back in 2018 by passing Measure AA, with 58% of the vote. 

That has allowed the City of Wildomar to focus on many quality of life issues that it simply couldn't address in the past.

(I can't imagine our city without the improvements the additional tax money has made possible)

Are we done? 

Have we crossed the finish line? 

No way, no how... not even Murrieta would say that about their city. 

There's always room for improvement, but what a great leap forward we've taken in just a few short years.

There are lots of other interesting stats found in the link below.

https://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-cities-california/

Wildomar Rap opinion time

A couple of things.

First, look at the median incomes of the safest cities and you'll see that Wildomar managed to get up there despite our lower median income. 

Our median income, reported as $74K, was the lowest in the top 30 rated cities. Don't get me started on where we rank when it comes to the size of our tax base and city budget. 

Yet, still, we ranked 22nd. 

That's worth repeating.

Second, very often we'll see things that upset us about our city or neighborhood on social media. When we hear about someone's car or trailer being stolen, a catalytic converter being stolen, we get angry... and rightfully so.

I'm not looking to minimize such things when I point out that crime is something that has been plaguing society since the caveman days... that's why we have a police force in the first place.

Then throw in the new approach that Sacramento has when it comes to crime and punishment and it gets very challenging for the law abiding to stay safe. 

As we have learned from Neighborhood Watch meetings, don't make yourself an easy target (sometimes easier said than done) and if you are victim of a crime (or see one) be sure to report it to the police. 

Posting it on Facebook or Nextdoor doesn't count as "reporting" it.

Just for fun, let's compare Wildomar to Lake Elsinore at the website bestplaces.net. As you can see, they are below the fifty percentile too. 

When you look at these FBI stats from bestplaces.net you see why Wildomar is ranked among the safer places to live with a score of 12.8 out of 100 for violent crime. (The closer to 0 and further away from 100, the better).

Link to bestplaces.net

For those that may not know, my name is Joseph Morabito and I've been writing Wildomar Rap since 2013. I also have the honor of being Mayor Pro-Tem of Wildomar this year and I'm on the ballot for re-election this November. 

Let's keep Wildomar going in the right direction. Please vote for me this November.

This blog is indeed an advantage for me to get my message out to the voters. 

My phone number is (951) 440-2284 if you have questions that you'd like to bounce off me... that's what I'm here for. 

Email at jmorabito@cityofwildomar.org



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