2016–2025 · 5 published indicators
Los Angeles
crime trends.
LAPD open data for assault, auto theft, burglary, robbery, and grand theft.
Sources & methodologyA change in reporting. LAPD moved to NIBRS in March 2024. Assault, burglary and robbery change basis in 2024; auto theft and grand theft use legacy data through 2024 and NIBRS from 2025. Values across that break are not directly comparable. Read the source notes →
By category · 2025
Trends across 5 indicators
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Citywide · 99 neighbourhood councils
Assault count, 2025 · by neighbourhood council
Local boundaries shaded by one category at a time, in the active unit, for the selected year. Hover for a quick read; click to open the full neighbourhood council view.
Count by year
counts · 2016–2025 · baseline = all categoriesView chart data
Full years only; incomplete YTD totals are excluded. Not available means a value is missing, not zero.
| Year | Assault | All categories (baseline) |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 56,756 | 125,813 |
| 2017 | 48,036 | 105,650 |
| 2018 | 48,540 | 104,728 |
| 2019 | 47,907 | 99,642 |
| 2020 | 44,730 | 98,640 |
| 2021 | 45,529 | 106,279 |
| 2022 | 47,891 | 116,883 |
| 2023 | 48,172 | 117,847 |
| 2024 | 40,385 | 95,194 |
| 2025 | 44,344 | 101,023 |
How the series is built
2016 through 6 March 2024 uses LAPD's legacy crime files for every indicator. From 7 March 2024, assault, burglary, and robbery come from NIBRS. Auto theft and grand theft stay on the legacy file through the end of 2024, because that extract still holds those reports and the NIBRS file does not. 2025 and 2026 are NIBRS for every indicator. NIBRS can count more than one offense in an incident, so those years are not on the same basis as the legacy years.
Grand theft follows California's felony threshold of $950.01, not a $5,000 cut. Burglary here is premises burglary. Theft from a vehicle is not included. Sexual assault and homicide are excluded.
Population
Citywide rates use U.S. Census Bureau city estimates. 2016–2019 are from the 2010-based vintage and 2020–2025 from the 2020-based vintage, so the denominator changes base in 2020. Neighbourhood rates use 2020 Census block-group population assigned by each block group's internal point.
2.3% of these indicator reports could not be placed in a local area and stay in the city totals only.
Reading the data
Three numbers that need context
Data summary for Los Angeles-wide
| Year | Assault | Auto Theft | Burglary | Robbery | Grand Theft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 143.4 | 58.8 | 50.3 | 32.3 | 33.1 |
| 2017 | 120.8 | 48.2 | 42.0 | 27.2 | 27.6 |
| 2018 | 121.9 | 43.7 | 40.3 | 25.9 | 31.2 |
| 2019 | 120.3 | 39.4 | 34.4 | 24.2 | 32.0 |
| 2020 | 114.8 | 54.6 | 35.3 | 20.6 | 27.8 |
| 2021 | 118.8 | 63.5 | 34.0 | 22.2 | 38.9 |
| 2022 | 124.9 | 66.3 | 39.1 | 23.8 | 50.8 |
| 2023 | 125.2 | 67.4 | 39.8 | 22.6 | 51.3 |
| 2024 | 104.3 | 57.0 | 32.1 | 18.9 | 33.5 |
| 2025 | 114.6 | 51.0 | 29.9 | 18.8 | 46.8 |
About this data
How to read these figures
- What does “crime” mean for Los Angeles?
- Crime by neighbourhood council means the indicators Los Angeles Police Department publishes for Los Angeles (2016–2025). They are reported incident or offence counts, not arrests, charges, or a safety score. The same heading in another city is not the same offence.
- Where do the numbers come from?
- Police figures come from Los Angeles Police Department. Area boundaries come from City of Los Angeles · certified neighbourhood councils. Rates, when a denominator exists, use U.S. Census Bureau · population and are shown per 10,000 residents. A missing year, indicator, or boundary stays missing.
- How often is this updated?
- The site is updated periodically, with no fixed public schedule and no live feed. Comparable charts use full years. A year-to-date control, when the page has one, labels the partial year separately.
- What does this not show?
- Drug offences and overdose deaths are separate series, not part of these neighbourhood councils. There is no single cross-city crime index. Counting rules and source links are on the Los Angeles about page.