2024 Compare Cities Crime:
Monterey, CA vs Pacific Grove, CA

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- Pacific Grove has 55% less violent crime than Monterey.
- Pacific Grove has 43% less property crime than Monterey.
 Monterey, CAPacific Grove, CAUnited States
 Violent Crime26.111.822.7
 Property Crime53.630.335.4

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Reviews for Monterey    21 Reviews

Over 7 years ago

The Monterey city area is an excellent place to live and one of the few California locales where it's relatively safe to raise a family. If I could no longer live here I  More

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I grew up on the Monterey Peninsula and had to leave to climb out of poverty. The median income is $35,000 and outside of the military, the jobs are mostly service  More

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My husband and I are just crazy about Monterey. I wonder if we take housing expenses (mortgage or rent) out of the picture, is Monterey still a very expensive city to  More

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Reviews for Pacific Grove    3 Reviews

We had vacationed in the Monterey Bay Area for 40 years and really liked it, so we leased an apartment in Pacific Grove for a year to see if we would like to purchase  More

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Over 18 years ago

PG is a wonderful town, although with a four-year old child, the town feels old. It is prohibitively expensive to live in PG with the Average home close to a million  More

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We were welcomed to the community and had great  More

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