The Police IndexStop data: 2024 · Pay and hiring checked Nov 2026

What the job looks like at Woodlake Police

800 people stopped in 2024Busiest hour 6pm to 7pmSalary $62,616 to $76,104Tulare County

Woodlake Police is the police department for the city of Woodlake, in Tulare County. This page shows what its officers spend their time on, from the stops the department reported to the state for 2024.

People stopped
About 2 a day

800 people in 2024. A stop is a detention or search, so calls with no detention are not counted. Most common reason: registration, plates or insurance, 25%.

Busiest hour for stops
6pm to 7pm
22% of stops are between 10pm and 5am
6th of 9 in Tulare County
Stops that came from a call
5%
The rest the officer started
8th of 9 in Tulare County
Stops on foot
16%
126 of 800
7th of 9 in Tulare County
Median stop length
10 min

Pay at Woodlake Police in 2025

Published salary range
$62,616 to $76,104
Lowest and highest base salary for officer or deputy titles, as the employer reported it.
Median total pay
$70,920
What a full-year officer was actually paid, with overtime. Half earned more.
Median overtime
$6,984
11% on top of median regular pay. One in ten earned $31,290 or more.

Median total pay by rank

Officer or deputy$70,920
Sergeant$93,458

13 sworn staff were paid for the full year, 8 of them at officer or deputy level. Sheriff counts include jail and court deputies. Source: California State Controller, Government Compensation in California, raw export, 2025.

Where Woodlake Police works

Filled: Woodlake city limits.
Name in the state file
WOODLAKE PD
People stopped, 2024
800
Separate stops, 2024
757

Other departments in Tulare County

Tulare County SheriffPorterville PoliceVisalia PoliceDinuba PoliceTulare PoliceExeter PoliceFarmersville PoliceLindsay Department of Public Safety

What Woodlake Police officers stop people for

Registration, plates or insurance25%
Lights, tint or equipment21%
Speeding10%
Outstanding warrant9%
Red light, stop sign or traffic sign9%
Lane, turn or right-of-way violation2%
Consensual contact with a search2%
School or truancy matter1%
Phone use while driving1%
Parole or probation check1%
Everything else19%

The main reason recorded for each of 800 people stopped in 2024, grouped from the offense code.

When the work happens

22% of stops happen between 10pm and 5am.

Woodlake Police
Tulare County average
12am3am6am9am12pm3pm6pm9pm

Darker means a larger share of stops in that hour.

How the work is done

Each dot is a department in Tulare County. Woodlake Police is highlighted.

On foot16% 7th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%60%
For a traffic violation79% 4th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%60%80%
After a call for service5% 8th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%
Person perceived as unhoused1% 8th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%

How stops end

Verbal warning47% 3rd of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%60%
Citation15% 7th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%
Arrest11% 7th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%60%
Psychiatric hold0% 8th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%

One person can have more than one outcome, so these do not add to 100%.

Searches and handcuffs

Person searched4% 8th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%60%
Handcuffed4% 9th of 9 in Tulare County
0%20%40%60%
Hiring steps and test rules for this department are not on the site yet. Agencies differ in how consistently they record handcuffing and searches, so small gaps may not be real.

Sources: California Department of Justice stop data, 2024 · Map outlines: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files, 2023, 1:500,000.