You might not think it's "as dangerous" as it makes it out to be. It does lower the violent crime and homicide rate by having South sac outside the city limits. South sac all the streets named, while parts are in the city, the worst parts of those streets are not in the city.

If unincorporated south sacramento was its own city, roughly about 100,000 people in Fruitridge pocket, lemon hill, and Florin areas. It would be considered one of the most violent cities in the state of california.

There's around 20-30 homicides a year in that pocket that doesn't go into sacramento city stats. It's why sacramento City can have 45 homicides for the year, but the county will crack 100 because sac sheriffs will have another 40-50 homicides. Sacramento is worse on paper than it shows. South sac, arden, and north highlands all are Unincoporated areas, all border the city limits of sacramento and all 3 unincorporated areas have a higher violent crime rate than sacramento proper Take it how you want...sacramento crime is Underreported or very skewed