Mid-Wilshire Crime Rate Trends — Los Angeles
Mid-Wilshire is a Central LA neighborhood organized around the Wilshire Boulevard corridor between Western and La Brea. Anchored by the Wilshire Country Club, the Larchmont commercial strip, and the Metro D Line's Wilshire/Western station.
Six signals surfaced in Mid-Wilshire this April — two one-month below-trend drops and four sustained structural shifts. The dominant pattern is a broad, multi-year pullback across property crime: the sustained shifts indicate this isn't a single quiet month but a structural change that has been building across the prior 24 months.
Motor vehicle theft is the sharpest single signal: the current 12-month total of 94 sits well below the baseline of 244.4, and the 12-month count is down 44.4% against the prior year's 169. Theft from vehicle appears twice in the top signals — both as a one-month drop and as a sustained structural shift — with the 12-month total at 190 against 370 the year before, a 48.6% decline. Vandalism and other larceny show similar structural moves, down 49.8% and 41.6% respectively over the same window. Robbery is the one category running counter to this pattern, up 12.3% year-over-year (73 incidents vs. 65).
Notable signals 2
Motor Vehicle Theft
The past 12 months saw 94 incidents — about 62% below the 244 average from prior years.
Theft from Vehicle
The past 12 months saw 190 incidents — about 57% below the 440 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.
- Other Larceny has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 376, down 42% from 644 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Theft from Vehicle has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 190, down 49% from 370 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Vandalism has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 143, down 50% from 285 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
- Motor Vehicle Theft has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 94, down 44% from 169 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 Mid-Wilshire compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month motor vehicle theft 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 motor vehicle theft levels.”
West Adams
93 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 below Mid-Wilshire's 94.
Open page →Jefferson Park
92 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 below Mid-Wilshire's 94.
Open page →Mid-City
96 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 above Mid-Wilshire's 94.
Open page →Do crime spikes here spill over to adjacent neighborhoods?
When Mid-Wilshire has spiked theft from vehicle historically (19 events on record), an adjacent neighborhood spiked the same category within 3 months 100% of the time. The strongest-travelling categories sit at the top of the table.
| Category | Spike events | Same-category spillover |
|---|---|---|
| Theft from vehicle | 19 | 100% |
| Other larceny | 16 | 100% |
| Aggravated assault | 10 | 30% |
| Vandalism | 8 | 100% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 6 | 100% |
Each row shows Mid-Wilshire's historical spike events for that category, and how often any of its 7 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 Mid-Wilshire, 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.