Los Angeles · March 2026 briefing

Los Angeles Crime Rate Trends

The city, by the numbers we publish each month: 114 neighborhoods, 10 incident categories, twelve months of trailing comparison. Browse the rankings, scan the multi-year trends, or open a neighborhood-level breakdown.

Read methodology→UPDATED · AS OF 2026-03

534

tracked signals this month — across spikes, drops, sustained shifts, rare events.

-27.0%

overall city incident volume vs. trailing 12-month avg.

114

neighborhoods covered. Each gets its own page.

incident categories tracked, NIBRS-aligned.

Citywide incident volume is down 27.0% against the trailing twelve months, with the largest moves concentrated in the neighborhoods listed in the rankings table below.

The headline this month is in Tarzana, where other larceny moved sharply against the prior baseline. Open the neighborhood page for the full briefing.

The full multi-year arc for each category sits in the chart below, and the rankings table surfaces every (neighborhood × category) cell with a tracked signal in Los Angeles for March 2026.

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 March 2026 briefing.

Is crime in Los Angeles down?

Yes — citywide incident volume is 27.0% lower than the prior 12 months.

Across the trailing 12-month window we tracked 101,129 incidents in NIBRS-aligned categories, compared to 138,606 in the year before — down 37,477 incidents.

Is violent crime in Los Angeles down?

Yes — homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, and sexual assault are down 17.7% combined in the trailing 12 months.

That's 21,097 violent incidents in the past year against 25,627 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 31.2% combined in the trailing 12 months.

That's 61,729 property incidents in the past year against 89,769 in the prior year.

Which neighborhood in Los Angeles saw the biggest crime drop?

San Pedro — 61.8% fewer incidents than the prior 12 months.

San Pedro logged 645 incidents in the trailing 12 months against 1,690 the year before.

Which neighborhood in Los Angeles saw the biggest crime increase?

Beverlywood — 23.2% more incidents than the prior 12 months.

Beverlywood logged 138 incidents in the trailing 12 months against 112 the year before.

City profile

The denominators behind the numbers

SOURCES · US CENSUS ACS 2023 · LA OPEN DATA · LAPD

Geography

Land area469.5 mi²

Water area33.6 mi²

CoastlinePacific (≈ 75 mi)

Elevation0–5,074 ft

LAPD geographic areas21

Neighborhoods114 (analysis units)

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.

Population

3,845,526

Density~8,191 / mi²

Median age37.9

Households~1.42M

Avg HH size2.85

ACS 2023 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.

Housing

Units~1.53M

Median rent$1,893

Median home value$783,300

Vacancy7.6%

Tenure

Renter 64%Owner 36%

Stock

SFH 42%2–4 unit 9%5+ unit 49%

Economy & people

Median HH income$87,760

Poverty rate16.5%

Unemployment7.9%

Bachelor's+37.8%

Foreign-born35.8%

Age distribution

<18 19%18–34 27%35–64 39%65+ 14%

City-level only. We deliberately do not juxtapose these with neighborhood-level crime data — see the methodology for why.

Built environment

Street miles~28,000

Parks (acres)~16,000

Metro rail stations108

Walk score69 (somewhat walkable)

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.

Policing context

LAPD sworn officers~8,800

Officers / 10K res.~22

911 calls / yr~3.5M

Public feed statusFrozen at 2024-12-30

LAPD's public Crime Data feed (resource 2nrs-mtv8 on data.lacity.org) stopped publishing new incidents on 2024-12-30 following a late-2024 cyber incident — the dataset still carries 2020-2024 history and continues to receive metadata revisions, but no new incident dates have landed since. As a result, the LA city page renders against a fixed 2024 calendar window and 2025/2026 archive routes are deliberately empty for this city. Our category mapper translates LAPD crime codes into the same UCR Part 1 buckets used elsewhere on the site, so the 2020-2024 window remains apples-to-apples with other cities.

Interactive map

Every neighborhood, color-coded

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RAW COUNT · 1Y

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Rankings

Largest moves this month

SORTED BY |Z|

#	Neighborhood	Category	MoM	YoY 12mo	\|z\|	Signal
01	Tarzana	Other Larceny	+35%	+62%	10.81	SPIKE
02	Windsor Square	Vandalism	+100%	+34%	7.62	SPIKE
03	Studio City	Other Larceny	-21%	+35%	6.82	SPIKE
04	Beverlywood	Other Larceny	0%	+118%	5.52	SPIKE
05	Woodland Hills	Other Larceny	+3%	+24%	4.13	SPIKE
06	Canoga Park	Vandalism	0%	+11%	4.07	SPIKE
07	Chesterfield Square	Theft from Vehicle	0%	+27%	3.88	SPIKE
08	Hollywood Hills	Other Larceny	+7%	+6%	3.59	SPIKE
09	North Hollywood	Vandalism	-45%	+3%	3.46	SPIKE
10	Valley Village	Vandalism	+11%	+2%	2.71	SPIKE
11	Chesterfield Square	Motor Vehicle Theft	-36%	+51%	2.69	SPIKE
12	Chesterfield Square	Vandalism	+100%	-5%	2.67	SPIKE

Showing top 12 of 20 (neighborhood × category) cells with tracked signals.

Multi-year trends

The long arc — eight years of monthly counts

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Latest 12mo196

YoY 12mo-1%

5-year change-50%

Window change—

Peak (12mo avg)35 · Aug '21

Trough (12mo avg)0 · Nov '18

ALL CATEGORIES · 8-YEAR ARC · 12-MO ROLLING MEAN

2018 ─────────────────── 2026

Read this month

Four neighborhoods worth your time

All 114 neighborhoods →

SPIKE · OTHER LARCENY

Tarzana

The past 12 months saw 399 incidents — about 95% above the 204 average from prior years.

Read briefing →SPIKE · VANDALISM

Windsor Square

The past 12 months saw 67 incidents — about 94% above the 35 average from prior years.

Read briefing →SPIKE · OTHER LARCENY

Studio City

The past 12 months saw 514 incidents — about 48% above the 348 average from prior years.

Read briefing →SPIKE · OTHER LARCENY

Beverlywood

The past 12 months saw 48 incidents — about 180% above the 17 average from prior years.

Read briefing →

When does it happen?

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.

HOUR OF DAY · ALL CATEGORIES

Hour 0 is mildly inflated by reports without a known time defaulting to midnight — see methodology.

DAY OF WEEK · ALL CATEGORIES

MONTH OF YEAR · ALL CATEGORIES

Browse

All 114 Los Angeles neighborhoods

Crime rate trends and March 2026 briefings for every tracked neighborhood. Alphabetical.

Methodology

Every signal, every forecast, documented

Open about how we define spikes, what we exclude as noise, where the data comes from, and how often the model is wrong.

Read the methodology

# anomaly rule — spike

flag = (z >= 2.5) AND (current_12mo >= 20) AND (current_6mo above sustained band)

where z = (current_12mo − μ_baseline) / σ_baseline

# exclusions (excerpt)

· simple assault (varies by reporting practice)

· drug offenses (reflect policing policy)

· admin records, weapons-possession, fraud

# 2025 backtest (citywide)

7 of 10 categories ≥ 90% coverage. see table →