Hollywood Hills West Crime Rate Trends — Los Angeles
Hollywood Hills West is a hillside neighborhood in the Santa Monica Mountains west of the Hollywood Bowl, organized around Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Predominantly hillside single-family homes on winding canyon streets.
Hollywood Hills West registered one tracked signal in March 2026 — a sustained structural shift in vandalism, not a single noisy month. That distinction matters: sustained shifts reflect multi-month movement between trailing 12-month windows, and vandalism is down 37.5% against the prior year.
Vandalism sits at 70 incidents over the current 12 months against 112 in the year before — the clearest move in the neighborhood's data. Property crime more broadly is running lower: burglary is down 24.7% (70 vs. 93), other larceny is down 31.5% (76 vs. 111), and motor vehicle theft is down 29.7% (26 vs. 37). Robbery and aggravated assault are essentially flat, up 10.0% and 4.2% respectively on very small absolute counts. Every other tracked category was within normal range.
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.
- Vandalism has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 70, down 38% from 112 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 March 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 Hollywood Hills West compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month vandalism 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 vandalism levels.”
Glassell Park
68 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 below Hollywood Hills West's 70.
Open page →Tujunga
68 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 below Hollywood Hills West's 70.
Open page →West Los Angeles
67 incidents over the past 12 months — 3 below Hollywood Hills West's 70.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Hollywood Hills West, 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
Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page
Incident data is pulled from SFPD's open dataset, 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.