Los Angeles Crime Rate Trends
Data sourced from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Open Data portal and analyzed by Public Analyst.ai: 114 neighborhoods, 10 incident categories, twelve months of trailing comparison. Browse the rankings, scan the multi-year trends, or open a neighborhood-level breakdown.
Tarzana other larceny is the top signal in April 2026 — an above-trend move that tops the rankings for the first time this month. The category shows up across multiple neighborhoods in the top five, with Studio City, Beverlywood, and Woodland Hills all registering fresh spikes in the same bucket, making other larceny the defining pattern of this briefing.
Citywide volume is down 27.4% against the prior 12 months — 98,797 incidents against 136,047 in the year before. That decline is the structural backdrop. The signal mix, however, skews toward sustained below-trend movement: 246 sustained-shift signals and 289 below-trend signals against just 9 fresh spikes across 114 neighborhoods. Windsor Square vandalism is the one fresh spike outside the other-larceny cluster, standing apart from the dominant category.
The citywide decline is substantial and has been running for at least 12 months at this scale. The other-larceny concentration across Tarzana, Studio City, Beverlywood, and Woodland Hills is new this month and worth tracking — if it persists into May, it shifts from a single-month cluster to a sustained pattern. The structural downtrend otherwise holds.
Why these numbers are below LAPD's headline totals
Counts from March 2024 onwardrun roughly 10 to 20 percent below LAPD's command-staff totals citywide. LAPD's legacy crime feed froze after a late-2024 cyber incident, and the replacement NIBRS feed has been shipping fewer rows than LAPD's own statistics show. The shortfall is most visible in homicide and in dense south-LA neighborhoods, because the new feed lacks coordinates and resolves location through reporting districts. Trend direction is still meaningful; absolute levels are not directly comparable to LAPD's headline figures.
Los Angeles Crime Frequently Asked Questions
Trailing 12 months vs the prior 12 months, computed from the same NIBRS-aligned categories used everywhere else on the page. Updated each April 2026 briefing.
Is crime in Los Angeles down?
Yes — citywide incident volume is 27.4% lower than the prior 12 months.
Across the trailing 12-month window we tracked 98,797 incidents in NIBRS-aligned categories, compared to 136,047 in the year before — down 37,250 incidents.
Is violent crime in Los Angeles down?
Yes — homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, and sexual assault are down 18.8% combined in the trailing 12 months.
That's 20,681 violent incidents in the past year against 25,455 in the prior year. See the by-category section below for the per-bucket breakdown.
Is property crime in Los Angeles down?
Yes — burglary, theft from vehicle, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson are down 30.7% combined in the trailing 12 months.
That's 60,421 property incidents in the past year against 87,243 in the prior year.
What are the safest neighborhoods to stay in Los Angeles?
- Harvard Park — 0.0 incidents per 1,000 residents
- Pacific Palisades — 6.5 incidents per 1,000 residents
- San Pedro — 7.5 incidents per 1,000 residents
The three safest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, ranked by trailing-12-month incidents per 1,000 residents.
Computed as NIBRS-aligned trailing-12-month incident totals divided by the latest ACS 5-year residential population, expressed per 1,000 residents. Restricted to neighborhoods with at least 1,000 residents so park-only and industrial geographies — where visitor populations are not reflected in the residential denominator — are excluded.
Which neighborhood in Los Angeles saw the biggest crime drop?
San Pedro — 61.7% fewer incidents than the prior 12 months.
San Pedro logged 603 incidents in the trailing 12 months against 1,573 the year before.
Which neighborhood in Los Angeles saw the biggest crime increase?
Beverlywood — 28.3% more incidents than the prior 12 months.
Beverlywood logged 136 incidents in the trailing 12 months against 106 the year before.
The denominators behind the numbers
Sprawling Mediterranean-climate city laid out across the LA Basin, San Fernando Valley, the Santa Monica Mountains, and a southern peninsula running to the Port of LA at San Pedro. Neighborhood boundaries follow the LA Times' Mapping LA project (114 polygons) — the historical analytical standard for the city. Major freeways (101, 405, 110, 10, 5) and the Santa Monica Mountains define most neighborhood-cluster boundaries.
ACS 2024 5-year estimates, county-level (Los Angeles County). LA County is much broader than the City of Los Angeles — county-level medians (rent, home value, household income, age) are county-wide, not city-only. Per-tract counts (population, households, housing units) sum only the ~1,100 tracts whose interior point falls inside city limits.
City-level only. We deliberately do not juxtapose these with neighborhood-level crime data — see the methodology for why.
Largely car-oriented, low-density single-family fabric across most of the city, with high-rise cores in Downtown, Century City, Westwood, and along the Wilshire corridor (Koreatown, Mid-Wilshire). The Metro Rail B/D Line subway and the A/E/K light-rail lines shape transit travel for the central and Westside neighborhoods; the San Fernando Valley relies on the G Line bus rapid transit and freeways.
LAPD now publishes through three feeds — a frozen UCR-coded feed (2nrs-mtv8) that carries 2020 through 2024-02 history, and two NIBRS-coded feeds (y8y3-fqfu for 2024-03 through 2025-12, then k7nn-b2ep for 2026 onward). Our ingest stitches them by date. The NIBRS feeds don't carry lat/lng, so neighborhood is resolved via a hand-built LAPD-RD → Mapping-LA crosswalk: 1,129 of 1,135 reporting districts mapped, with the remaining 6 falling outside city limits. Approximately ~14-day reporting lag on the NIBRS side per LAPD docs.
Every neighborhood, color-coded
Largest moves this month
| # | Neighborhood | Category | MoM | YoY 12mo | vs baseline | 90-day trend | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tarzana | Other Larceny | -45% | +58% | +94% | SPIKE | |
| 02 | Windsor Square | Vandalism | -50% | +37% | +93% | SPIKE | |
| 03 | Studio City | Other Larceny | -21% | +34% | +49% | SPIKE | |
| 04 | Beverlywood | Other Larceny | 0% | +100% | +167% | SPIKE | |
| 05 | Woodland Hills | Other Larceny | -20% | +23% | +69% | SPIKE | |
| 06 | Canoga Park | Vandalism | -14% | +7% | +40% | SPIKE | |
| 07 | Chesterfield Square | Theft from Vehicle | -14% | +12% | +48% | SPIKE | |
| 08 | Hollywood Hills | Other Larceny | -13% | +3% | +23% | SPIKE | |
| 09 | Chesterfield Square | Motor Vehicle Theft | -13% | +49% | +34% | SPIKE | |
| 10 | Chatsworth Reservoir | Robbery | — | — | — | STREAK BREAK | |
| 11 | Chatsworth Reservoir | Theft from Vehicle | — | — | — | STREAK BREAK | |
| 12 | Green Meadows | Motor Vehicle Theft | -55% | -50% | -52% | DROP |
The long arc — eight years of monthly counts
Four neighborhoods worth your time
Tarzana
The past 12 months saw 397 incidents — about 94% above the 205 average from prior years.
Read briefing →SPIKE · VANDALISMWindsor Square
The past 12 months saw 67 incidents — about 93% above the 35 average from prior years.
Read briefing →SPIKE · OTHER LARCENYStudio City
The past 12 months saw 519 incidents — about 49% above the 349 average from prior years.
Read briefing →SPIKE · OTHER LARCENYBeverlywood
The past 12 months saw 46 incidents — about 167% above the 17 average from prior years.
Read briefing →Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality
Distribution of bucketed incidents citywide across the full analysis window. Useful for routine context — shopping-strip thefts vs. late-night assaults read very differently when you can see when each typically happens.
All 114 Los Angeles neighborhoods
Crime rate trends and April 2026 briefings for every tracked neighborhood. Alphabetical.
- Adams-Normandie crime rate
- Arleta crime rate
- Arlington Heights crime rate
- Atwater Village crime rate
- Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw crime rate
- Bel-Air crime rate
- Beverly Crest crime rate
- Beverly Grove crime rate
- Beverlywood crime rate
- Boyle Heights crime rate
- Brentwood crime rate
- Broadway-Manchester crime rate
- Canoga Park crime rate
- Carthay crime rate
- Central-Alameda crime rate
- Century City crime rate
- Chatsworth crime rate
- Chatsworth Reservoir crime rate
- Chesterfield Square crime rate
- Cheviot Hills crime rate
- Chinatown crime rate
- Cypress Park crime rate
- Del Rey crime rate
- Downtown crime rate
- Eagle Rock crime rate
- East Hollywood crime rate
- Echo Park crime rate
- El Sereno crime rate
- Elysian Park crime rate
- Elysian Valley crime rate
- Encino crime rate
- Exposition Park crime rate
- Fairfax crime rate
- Florence crime rate
- Glassell Park crime rate
- Gramercy Park crime rate
- Granada Hills crime rate
- Green Meadows crime rate
- Griffith Park crime rate
- Hancock Park crime rate
- Hansen Dam crime rate
- Harbor City crime rate
- Harbor Gateway crime rate
- Harvard Heights crime rate
- Harvard Park crime rate
- Highland Park crime rate
- Historic South-Central crime rate
- Hollywood crime rate
- Hollywood Hills crime rate
- Hollywood Hills West crime rate
- Hyde Park crime rate
- Jefferson Park crime rate
- Koreatown crime rate
- Lake Balboa crime rate
- Lake View Terrace crime rate
- Larchmont crime rate
- Leimert Park crime rate
- Lincoln Heights crime rate
- Los Feliz crime rate
- Manchester Square crime rate
- Mar Vista crime rate
- Mid-City crime rate
- Mid-Wilshire crime rate
- Mission Hills crime rate
- Montecito Heights crime rate
- Mount Washington crime rate
- North Hills crime rate
- North Hollywood crime rate
- Northridge crime rate
- Pacific Palisades crime rate
- Pacoima crime rate
- Palms crime rate
- Panorama City crime rate
- Pico-Robertson crime rate
- Pico-Union crime rate
- Playa del Rey crime rate
- Playa Vista crime rate
- Porter Ranch crime rate
- Rancho Park crime rate
- Reseda crime rate
- San Pedro crime rate
- Sawtelle crime rate
- Sepulveda Basin crime rate
- Shadow Hills crime rate
- Sherman Oaks crime rate
- Silver Lake crime rate
- South Park crime rate
- Studio City crime rate
- Sun Valley crime rate
- Sunland crime rate
- Sylmar crime rate
- Tarzana crime rate
- Toluca Lake crime rate
- Tujunga crime rate
- University Park crime rate
- Valley Glen crime rate
- Valley Village crime rate
- Van Nuys crime rate
- Venice crime rate
- Vermont Knolls crime rate
- Vermont Square crime rate
- Vermont Vista crime rate
- Vermont-Slauson crime rate
- Watts crime rate
- West Adams crime rate
- West Hills crime rate
- West Los Angeles crime rate
- Westchester crime rate
- Westlake crime rate
- Westwood crime rate
- Wilmington crime rate
- Windsor Square crime rate
- Winnetka crime rate
- Woodland Hills crime rate
How We Calculate Los Angeles Crime Trends
Open about how we define spikes, what we exclude as noise, where the data comes from, and how often the model is wrong.