Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0El Dorado Hills has no Safety Grade
Of the graded towns, Folsom is the closest, at C+. El Dorado Hills has no police department of its own: it’s an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) in El Dorado County. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office reports to the FBI for the parts of the county without police of their own, so there are no figures for El Dorado Hills alone, and no Safety Grade. Widen the search to 25 miles and 11 graded towns turn up.
What stands out about safety in El Dorado Hills
Policed by the county
El Dorado Hills is a census-designated place, with no town government. Crimes there are reported to the FBI inside the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office’s totals for the county. County police ↓
Counts, not rates
The FBI doesn’t publish how many people the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office covers, so its totals can’t be turned into a per-resident rate or a grade for El Dorado Hills. County police ↓
The nearest graded towns
The closest California towns with their own police figures are Folsom (C+, 5 mi), Rancho Cordova (C−, 12 mi), Citrus Heights (C−, 13 mi). Nearby towns can differ a lot from El Dorado Hills. Nearest ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office reports
Reports to the FBI for the parts of El Dorado County without police of their own, which include El Dorado Hills.
Property crimes
Violent crimes
2025 offenses reported by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office
Counts, not rates: the FBI doesn’t publish how many people each agency covers. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, Tables 10–11.
Crimes reported to the FBI for the whole area the department covers, by year.
The nearest California towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folsom | C+ | 5 mi | 1.9 | 14.2 |
| Rancho Cordova | C− | 12 mi | 4.6 | 19.7 |
| Citrus Heights | C− | 13 mi | 4.1 | 20.2 |
| Placerville | C− | 14 mi | 5.9 | 13.7 |
| Rocklin | B | 14 mi | 1.4 | 9.2 |
| Auburn | B− | 15 mi | 3.1 | 7.4 |
Straight-line distance from the center of El Dorado Hills. Nearby towns can differ a lot from El Dorado Hills.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Nine people died in crashes on El Dorado Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
El Dorado Hills had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for California towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of El Dorado Hills’s size would see about 14 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so El Dorado Hills’s own rate (3.5) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
El Dorado Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Park | — | — | — |
| Folsom | C+ | 1.9 | 14.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Cameron Park is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in El Dorado Hills
Is El Dorado Hills, CA safe?
There is no Safety Grade for El Dorado Hills. The nearest California towns with a grade are Folsom (C+, 5 mi), Rancho Cordova (C−, 12 mi), Citrus Heights (C−, 13 mi).
Who polices El Dorado Hills?
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. El Dorado Hills is an unincorporated community, and the department reports to the FBI for the parts of El Dorado County without police of their own.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in El Dorado Hills.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.