Lockwood Gardens Crime Rate Trends — Oakland
Lockwood Gardens is an East Oakland residential neighborhood near the 73rd Avenue corridor, named for the Lockwood Gardens housing development built in the 1940s. Bordered by I-580 and the Coliseum-area industrial belt.
Four signals surfaced in Lockwood Gardens this month — two one-month below-trend moves and two sustained structural shifts, all pointing in the same direction: vehicle-related theft is lower across multiple timeframes. The shape of May 2026 is a neighborhood where the biggest property crime categories have quietly compressed over the past year.
Motor vehicle theft leads the signal list: the current 12-month total of 125 sits well below a multi-year baseline mean of 255.79, and the category is down 34.2% against the prior 12 months (190 incidents). Theft from vehicle appears twice in the top signals — once as a one-month below-trend move, once as a sustained structural shift — with its own 12-month total of 26 against 53 the year before, a 50.9% decline. Burglary moved the other direction, up 21.5% year-over-year (96 vs. 79), and every other tracked category fell within range or continued a longer downward drift.
Notable signals 2
Motor Vehicle Theft
The past 12 months saw 125 incidents — about 51% below the 256 average from prior years.
Theft from Vehicle
The past 12 months saw 26 incidents — about 55% below the 57 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.
- Motor Vehicle Theft has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 125, down 34% from 190 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 26, down 51% from 53 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 May 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 Lockwood Gardens 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.”
Longfellow
127 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 above Lockwood Gardens's 125.
Open page →Grand Lake
128 incidents over the past 12 months — 3 above Lockwood Gardens's 125.
Open page →Seminary Park
128 incidents over the past 12 months — 3 above Lockwood Gardens's 125.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Lockwood Gardens, 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 OPD's CrimeWatch feed on Oakland Open Data, 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.