Los Angeles crime by year: the official numbers
The California Department of Justice publishes the crimes each police department reports, by year, in its Crimes and Clearances file, which runs through 2025. These are the Los Angeles Police Department's counts. Violent crime covers homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime covers burglary, motor vehicle theft and larceny-theft.
| Year | Violent crimes | Property crimes | Homicides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19,171 | 83,139 | 260 |
| 2015 | 25,156 | 93,503 | 282 |
| 2016 | 28,817 | 99,151 | 293 |
| 2017 | 30,507 | 101,618 | 281 |
| 2018 | 30,126 | 101,267 | 258 |
| 2019 | 29,400 | 95,704 | 258 |
| 2020 | 28,882 | 85,932 | 351 |
| 2021 | 30,956 | 91,944 | 401 |
| 2022 | 31,772 | 103,171 | 387 |
| 2023 | 31,047 | 107,777 | 324 |
| 2024 | 29,089 | 102,289 | 280 |
| 2025 | 25,862 | 86,604 | 225 |
In 2025 LAPD reported 225 homicides, 1,357 rapes, 7,230 robberies and 17,050 aggravated assaults, and 11,949 burglaries, 20,093 vehicle thefts and 54,562 larceny-thefts. Violent crime fell 11.1% from 2024 and property crime 15.3%. Homicides peaked at 401 in 2021 in this table and were back to 225 in 2025. Over the six years from 2019, violent crime fell 12.0% and property crime 9.5%; statewide in the same file, violent crime fell 1.6% and property crime 22.9%. Vehicle thefts are the clearest change: 15,642 in 2019 and 20,093 in 2025, a rise of about 28%.
Los Angeles crime rates compared with California
Counts mislead when places differ in size, so convert them to rates. Using the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 population estimate of 3,857,263 for the city, LAPD's 2025 counts work out to about 6.7 violent and 22.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents. California as a whole, using the DOJ's 2025 statewide totals (170,397 violent and 705,925 property crimes) and a population of 39,287,377, comes to about 4.3 and 18.0 per 1,000. These rates are our calculations from the two official sources.
A city of nearly four million with a large downtown, Hollywood, Venice Beach and LAX draws millions of workers and visitors, and LAPD counts crimes against them too, so a per-resident rate overstates the risk to a household compared with a mostly residential suburb. The campuses report separately: UCLA's police department reported 51 violent and 690 property crimes to the DOJ for 2025, and Cal State LA's 6 and 110. Those counts are not in LAPD's totals.
Is crime in Los Angeles going up or down in 2026?
LAPD's COMPSTAT Unit publishes a citywide profile every four weeks. The profile prepared on October 27, 2026, covering the year to October 24, compares 2026 with the same period of 2025, both counted under the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS):
| Offense | Year to Oct 24, 2026 | Same period 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 242 | 279 | -13.3% |
| Rape | 1,077 | 1,074 | +0.3% |
| Robbery | 5,712 | 5,975 | -4.4% |
| Aggravated assault | 12,112 | 12,616 | -4.0% |
| Person crimes | 19,143 | 19,944 | -4.0% |
| Burglary | 7,086 | 9,585 | -26.1% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 13,078 | 16,510 | -20.8% |
| Theft from motor vehicle | 18,037 | 20,036 | -10.0% |
| Other larceny-theft | 24,868 | 25,386 | -2.0% |
| Property crimes | 63,069 | 71,517 | -11.8% |
So on LAPD's own preliminary figures, 2026 is running below 2025 in every category except rape, which is flat. LAPD marks the figures as preliminary and subject to revision, and notes that the report does not include every NIBRS category. Do not set these numbers beside the DOJ table above: LAPD moved to a new records system on March 7, 2024 to meet the FBI's NIBRS mandate, and its COMPSTAT figures for 2024 combine the old summary system with NIBRS, so year-to-year changes across that switch partly reflect counting rules.
Crime by LAPD division: the closest official area data
LAPD does not publish neighborhood rankings, and neither do we. The finest official breakdown it publishes every month is by its 21 community police divisions, grouped into four bureaus. The table uses the division COMPSTAT profiles for the year to October 24, 2026, against the same period of 2025. The areas column lists some of the communities each station says it serves.
| LAPD division | Bureau | Some communities served | Person crimes 2026 YTD | Change vs 2025 | Property crimes 2026 YTD | Change vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Central | Downtown, Bunker Hill, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Fashion District | 1,950 | +4.7% | 5,226 | -1.5% |
| Hollenbeck | Central | Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, Montecito Heights | 740 | -15.3% | 2,138 | -21.0% |
| Newton | Central | Central-Alameda, Historic South-Central, South Park, University Park | 1,482 | +8.3% | 3,089 | +14.2% |
| Northeast | Central | Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Echo Park | 565 | -9.5% | 3,275 | -3.6% |
| Rampart | Central | Echo Park, Westlake, MacArthur Park, Pico-Union | 1,556 | +1.8% | 2,986 | -0.3% |
| 77th Street | South | Chesterfield Square, Florence, Harvard Park, Vermont Knolls | 1,909 | +1.7% | 2,675 | -9.7% |
| Harbor | South | San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway | 537 | -24.6% | 2,192 | -20.0% |
| Southeast | South | Watts, Willowbrook, Green Meadows | 1,489 | -6.1% | 2,241 | +0.2% |
| Southwest | South | Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, Jefferson Park, University Park, West Adams | 1,436 | +3.2% | 3,517 | -6.9% |
| Devonshire | Valley | Chatsworth, Granada Hills, Northridge, Porter Ranch | 369 | -14.2% | 2,680 | -17.3% |
| Foothill | Valley | Pacoima, Arleta, Lake View Terrace, Sunland-Tujunga, Shadow Hills | 481 | -10.9% | 1,643 | -15.3% |
| Mission | Valley | Sylmar, Mission Hills, North Hills, Panorama City, Arleta | 738 | -8.0% | 2,400 | -18.5% |
| North Hollywood | Valley | North Hollywood, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Valley Village | 715 | -2.6% | 3,461 | -17.3% |
| Topanga | Valley | Canoga Park, West Hills, Winnetka, Woodland Hills | 541 | +2.5% | 2,976 | -16.2% |
| Van Nuys | Valley | Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Valley Glen | 582 | -11.0% | 2,753 | -24.0% |
| West Valley | Valley | Encino, Tarzana, Reseda, Lake Balboa | 559 | -11.6% | 2,614 | -20.0% |
| Hollywood | West | Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, Thai Town, Little Armenia, part of East Hollywood | 1,051 | -0.5% | 3,520 | -3.2% |
| Olympic | West | Koreatown, Wilshire Center, Harvard Heights, Country Club Park | 1,014 | -4.1% | 3,196 | -12.1% |
| Pacific | West | Venice, Mar Vista, Palms, Westchester, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista | 651 | -7.0% | 4,209 | -18.4% |
| West Los Angeles | West | Bel-Air, Westwood, Century City, Sawtelle, Pacific Palisades | 286 | -22.3% | 3,013 | -12.7% |
| Wilshire | West | Hancock Park, Larchmont, Mid-City, Fairfax, Carthay | 492 | -20.6% | 3,265 | -19.6% |
Read this table with care. These are counts, not rates, and the divisions differ widely in size and population; LAPD's station pages describe Pacific Division alone as 25.74 square miles with over 200,000 residents. Divisions that hold downtown, Hollywood or the airport record crimes against large daytime and visitor populations. The useful reading is the trend: property crime fell in 19 of the 21 divisions this year and was flat in Southeast, while Newton recorded rises in both person (+8.3%) and property (+14.2%) crimes. For a street-level view, use the tools below.
What these figures can and cannot tell you
They count crimes reported to police, not every crime, and some types, especially thefts from cars, often go unreported. Counts also shift with reporting systems and staffing as well as with crime itself, which matters in Los Angeles because of the 2024 switch to NIBRS. And a citywide or division total says nothing certain about one block: a division covers neighborhoods of every kind.
Clearances, crimes closed by an arrest or other means, show another side. In 2025 LAPD cleared 8,936 of 25,862 violent crimes, about 35%, and 5,291 of 86,604 property crimes, about 6%, per the DOJ file. Statewide the same file shows about 46% of violent and 11% of property crimes cleared. Since few property crimes are solved, locks, lighting, a garage or off-street parking for cars, cameras and insurance do more for a household than any area label. We do not rate neighborhoods as safe or unsafe, and private sites that turn mixed data into letter grades deserve skepticism.
How to check crime near a Los Angeles address
LAPD COMPSTAT profiles by division
The Crime Mapping and COMPSTAT page links a profile for the city, each bureau and each of the 21 divisions, updated every four weeks with the last four weeks, the year to date and the prior year. First find the division for your address with LAPD's station finder, then compare its trend with the citywide profile.
CrimeMapping.com for LAPD incidents
LAPD feeds its Part I crime reports to CrimeMapping.com, located to the hundred block. Filter the agency list to Los Angeles Police, set a radius of a few blocks around the address and look at several months, since a single week tells you little. The site also lets you set up crime alerts for an area. LAPD notes that the platform is being updated to take a new data feed, so check the date range shown.
Los Angeles Open Data: LAPD NIBRS datasets
The city's open data portal publishes LAPD's NIBRS offenses and victims datasets, introduced in October 2024 and refreshed every two weeks; the offenses file was consolidated in August 2026 to cover all records in LAPD's new system. The older Crime Data from 2020 to 2024 file (formerly 2020 to Present) is no longer updated and stays online for history. The NIBRS files let you filter by reporting district and offense if you are comfortable with a spreadsheet.
California DOJ OpenJustice
OpenJustice publishes crimes, clearances and arrests for every agency in the state on the same definitions. It is the best source for comparing Los Angeles with neighbors such as Glendale, Burbank, Culver City, Santa Monica or Long Beach, or with county areas patrolled by the Sheriff's Department.
FBI Crime Data Explorer
The FBI's Crime Data Explorer shows agency-level figures reported to the national program, with rates and trend charts, useful for comparing Los Angeles with cities in other states. Its years and categories differ slightly from the DOJ file, so do not mix the two in one comparison.
California Megan's Law website
The Department of Justice's Megan's Law site lets you search registered sex offenders it is allowed to display, by address or area. The DOJ notes that it has not assessed the risk any listed person poses, so treat it as one input among several.
Fire, earthquake, flood and tsunami risk in Los Angeles
Wildfire risk in the hills and the Palisades
The City of Los Angeles is still running a rebuild and recovery program in Pacific Palisades after the January 2025 fire, with dedicated permit help for Palisades rebuilds. Hillside areas from the Palisades and Brentwood to the Hollywood Hills, Mount Washington and the foothills above Sunland and Sylmar need a CAL FIRE hazard severity zone check and early insurance quotes; see our California wildfire zones guide and FAIR Plan guide.
Earthquake risk
Every Los Angeles address carries earthquake risk. For older wood-frame houses ask about foundation bolting, and for apartment and condo buildings ask for the building's seismic retrofit history and permits. Our earthquake insurance guide explains coverage.
Flood and tsunami risk on the coast
Venice, the Marina Peninsula, Playa del Rey, San Pedro and Wilmington sit on the coast or the harbor. Look up the parcel on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center and the California Geological Survey's tsunami hazard maps, and Cal OES MyHazards shows flood, fire, earthquake and tsunami layers for one address.
A checklist before you buy or rent in Los Angeles
- Find the LAPD division for the address and read its latest COMPSTAT profile against the citywide one.
- Look at at least 12 months of incidents within a few blocks on CrimeMapping.com.
- Visit at different times: a weekday evening, a weekend night, a school-day morning.
- Check the Megan's Law site and read the natural hazard disclosure.
- Pull the FEMA flood map, the CAL FIRE zone and MyHazards for the parcel.
- Get homeowners or renters insurance quotes before you remove contingencies.
- Ask neighbors and the neighborhood council what they have seen.
For prices by area, see our Los Angeles neighborhoods guide and Los Angeles ZIP code guide; for moving logistics, the Los Angeles relocation guide. Statewide comparisons are in our California crime data guide.