THE NUMBERS
Inspection rankings in California.
Raw counts from official records, with the context you need to read them.
Read these with care. Health departments inspect on different schedules and by different rules, and bigger areas have more restaurants. A high closure count can mean strict enforcement as much as unsafe kitchens. This is not a safety ranking.
Most closure records, last six months
Highest share with a clean latest inspection
- 1Sacramento County, CA6,254 restaurants with violation records65%
- 2Marin County, CA1,244 restaurants with violation records57%
- 3San Francisco, CA7,865 restaurants with violation records39%
- 4San Diego County, CA15,989 restaurants with violation records29%
- 5Santa Clara County, CA9,720 restaurants with violation records21%
Only areas that publish individual violations and have at least 100 restaurants are listed. “Clean” means no violations recorded at the latest inspection.
Counts refresh every day from the departments’ own records. A closure record is a restaurant whose inspection was recorded as a closure in the past 180 days.