Elysian Valley Crime Rate Trends — Los Angeles
Elysian Valley, locally known as Frogtown, is a narrow strip of homes between the Los Angeles River and the I-5 freeway, north of Downtown. A formerly industrial pocket now anchored by the LA River bike path, the Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park, and the Riverside-Figueroa Bridge.
Elysian Valley's July 2026 briefing turns on a single structural signal: theft from vehicle has shifted upward over the trailing 12 months in a way that reads as a multi-month trend rather than a one-month fluctuation. The rest of the tracked categories produced no additional signals this month, which means the broader story is a neighborhood that is mostly stable, with one category that has quietly moved in a sustained direction.
Theft from vehicle stands out sharply in the 12-month comparison: 48 incidents in the current period against 22 in the prior year, a 118.2% increase. Burglary and vandalism also grew on a 12-month basis, 18 vs. 7 and 30 vs. 19 respectively, though neither crossed the threshold for a formal signal this period. On the other side, aggravated assault fell 36.4% year-over-year, 7 incidents against 11, and motor vehicle theft edged down 15.4%. The net picture is a neighborhood where violent crime and vehicle theft are retreating, but theft from vehicle has structurally reorganized upward.
Notable signals 0
Nothing notable surfaced this month — every category sits within normal range against its baseline.
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.
- Theft from Vehicle is climbing.
The trailing 12-month count is 48, up 118% from 22 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline up.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through July 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
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
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
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
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 Elysian Valley compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month theft from vehicle 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 theft from vehicle levels.”
Mount Washington
47 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 below Elysian Valley's 48.
Open page →Playa del Rey
47 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 below Elysian Valley's 48.
Open page →Elysian Park
52 incidents over the past 12 months — 4 above Elysian Valley's 48.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Elysian Valley, 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.