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Some statistics you should know before buying a house in Oakland....
SOURCE: http://www.city-data.com/city/Oakland-California.html

According to our research there were 788 registered sex offenders living in Oakland, California in early 2007.
The ratio of number of residents in Oakland to the number of sex offenders is 510 to 1.



Full-time Law Enforcement Employees in 2006: 1,009 (688 officers).
Officers per 1,000 residents here:     1.71
US city average:     3.00

City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 320.9)
1999    812.9
2000        706.6   
2001        695.6
2002     740.7
2003    734.6
2004    705.9
2005    801.7
2006    969.2
2007    945.9


6.95% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($55,719 average adjusted gross income)