Del Rey Crime Rate Trends — Los Angeles
Del Rey is a Westside neighborhood between Marina del Rey and Culver City, organized around Centinela Avenue and Culver Boulevard. Predominantly mid-century single-family homes and small apartment buildings; bordered by the Ballona Creek corridor.
Del Rey had four tracked signals in April 2026 — two one-month below-trend moves and two sustained structural shifts. The overall shape is broadly downward across property crime, with no spikes and no rare-event signals anywhere in the mix.
Burglary is the clearest story: it registered both a single-month drop and a sustained shift, and the 12-month total of 24 is down 60.0% against the prior year's 60 incidents. Other larceny also ran below trend — current 12-month volume is 109 against a multi-year baseline mean of 172.57, a structural gap that has persisted long enough to register as more than a quiet month. Theft from vehicle and vandalism are also down year-over-year, at -15.3% and -24.3% respectively, though neither crossed the signal threshold this period.
Notable signals 2
Other Larceny
The past 12 months saw 109 incidents — about 37% below the 173 average from prior years.
Burglary
The past 12 months saw 24 incidents — about 76% below the 100 average from prior years.
All categories, last 24 months
Each panel: recent monthly count vs. trailing 12-month context. MoM is the most recent month vs. the one before; 12mo YoY compares the trailing year to the year before that.
What's been quietly true for a year
Spikes get attention. Sustained shifts shape policy. These are multi-quarter patterns where the past 12-month total differs meaningfully from the year before — they often precede the baseline resetting.
- Burglary has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 24, down 60% from 60 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Other Larceny has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 109, down 37% from 173 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through April 2026, with a likely range we're 95% confident the actual count will fall inside. Categories with too little recent volume — or violent categories at the neighborhood level — show no forecast and are surfaced through signals above instead. See the methodology page for the gating rules.
Aggravated Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Arson
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
Burglary
Homicide
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Motor Vehicle Theft
Other Larceny
Robbery
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Sexual Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Theft from Vehicle
Vandalism
How Del Rey compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month other larceny volume — a pragmatic v1 of peer matching. Demographic / housing-stock peer matching isn't built yet (we deliberately don't ingest income or race data alongside crime). Volume similarity has the right intuition: “neighborhoods experiencing comparable other larceny levels.”
Harvard Heights
108 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 below Del Rey's 109.
Open page →Mar Vista
102 incidents over the past 12 months — 7 below Del Rey's 109.
Open page →Playa Vista
119 incidents over the past 12 months — 10 above Del Rey's 109.
Open page →Do crime spikes here spill over to adjacent neighborhoods?
When Del Rey has spiked theft from vehicle historically (9 events on record), an adjacent neighborhood spiked the same category within 3 months 0% of the time. The strongest-travelling categories sit at the top of the table.
| Category | Spike events | Same-category spillover |
|---|---|---|
| Theft from vehicle | 9 | 0% |
| Burglary | 8 | 0% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 4 | — too few |
| Robbery | 3 | — too few |
| Other larceny | 1 | — too few |
Each row shows Del Rey's historical spike events for that category, and how often any of its 3 adjacent neighborhoods spiked the same category within the next 3 months. A high same-category rate suggests a shock that travels (e.g. theft crews moving across Los Angeles); a low rate means spikes here tend to be local to the neighborhood. Categories with fewer than 5 historical spike events are listed but their rates are suppressed.
Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Del Rey, excluding generic crime taxonomy. Useful as texture — what kinds of specifics show up here that don't show up elsewhere.
Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality
Distribution of bucketed incidents in this neighborhood 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.
How we built this page
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.
Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page
Incident data is pulled from LAPD's open feed on the LA City Open Data portal — the NIBRS-coded feed from 2024-03 onward with UCR backfill to 2020. Mapped to 10 NIBRS-aligned categories and aggregated to neighborhood × category × month.Anomalies are surfaced using strict thresholds (~p < 0.01). Forecasts are Prophet with low-count gating; violent categories at the neighborhood level skip the forecast and show rare-event / streak signals instead.
Spike rule: 12-mo total > baseline mean + 2.5σ AND ≥ 20 incidents AND 6-mo confirms. Drop rule: 12-mo total < baseline mean − 2.5σ AND baseline mean ≥ 20. Rare event: any incident in the last 90 days, no prior comparable in ≥ 5 years.