Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Baldwin Hills is 1,798 per 100,000 residents per year, 42% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 26 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

1,798 per 100,000 residents, per year

541 reported in the last 12 months

+42% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

3,024 per 100,000 residents, per year

910 reported in the last 12 months

+19% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

5,014 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,509 reported in the last 12 months

+24% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 30,096 for Baldwin Hills. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Baldwin Hills sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 26 of 132
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1the block with the most violent incidents10the tenthCounted over the last 12 months. Point at a mark, or at a row in the table below, to see which street it is.

SaferHigher rateNot rated: park or fewer than 2,500 residentsArea shading: violent crimes per 100,000 residents per year, so you can see how this neighbourhood compares with the ones around it.

Baldwin Hills is among the highest in the city: rank 26 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Koreatown (1,846), Exposition Park (1,801), University Park (1,732), Watts (1,709).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026
BlockViolentPropertyShare of area’s violent
0150XX Obama Blvd23184%
0246XX Coliseum St1783%
0345XX W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd1593%
0439XX Crenshaw Blvd1362%
0537XX S La Brea Ave11182%
0640XX Nicolet Ave11102%
0741XX Palmwood Dr1152%
0839XX Gibraltar Ave1092%
09Obama Blvd & S La Brea Ave1032%
1040XX Abourne Rd1012%

“Block” is the hundred-block LAPD publishes for each incident (for example 7XX S Figueroa St), never an exact address. Only blocks with 5 or more violent incidents in the window are listed; the top 10 account for 24% of Baldwin Hills’s violent incidents. These are the numbered marks on the map above; hover a row to find it.

Violent crime, month by month

Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
Violent crimes in Baldwin Hills by month
MonthViolent crimes in Baldwin Hills
Sep 202546
Oct 202542
Nov 202548
Dec 202545
Jan 202661
Feb 202642
Mar 202630
Apr 202647
May 202654
Jun 202638
Jul 202637
Aug 202651

When crime happens in Baldwin Hills

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Baldwin Hills happened between 1 pm and 10 pm. Saturday had the most.

Violent crime busiest hour 5 pm

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Property crime busiest hour 1 pm

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Each line is an average day of that kind, as a multiple of the average hour of the week (dashed line), smoothed over three hours. Days run from 6 am to 6 am, so a Friday night stays on Friday. Times are when the incident happened, as recorded by Los Angeles Police Department; 1% of incidents have no usable time (many unknown times are recorded as midnight or noon) and are left out.

See the numbers by hour
Violent crime in Baldwin Hills by hour, last 12 months
HourFriday and SaturdaySunday to ThursdayAll days
6 am11415
7 am71724
8 am91625
9 am71522
10 am51823
11 am92130
12 pm132437
1 pm161935
2 pm82230
3 pm82230
4 pm132639
5 pm123042
6 pm142337
7 pm72633
8 pm122032
9 pm102838
10 pm61420
11 pm71623
12 am121224
1 am6511
2 am4913
3 am61319
4 am7613
5 am6410
Total with a known time205420625
Property crime in Baldwin Hills by hour, last 12 months
HourFriday and SaturdaySunday to ThursdayAll days
6 am71017
7 am71522
8 am61824
9 am71724
10 am102131
11 am183654
12 pm163248
1 pm154863
2 pm153853
3 pm162541
4 pm123446
5 pm142539
6 pm243862
7 pm162440
8 pm112233
9 pm82533
10 pm92231
11 pm62127
12 am62127
1 am51116
2 am11819
3 am279
4 am31013
5 am4610
Total with a known time248534782

Reported crime by type

last 12 months
OffenseReportedPer 100k, per yearvs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent5401,794+43%
HomicideViolent13.3−57%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty6342,107+19%
Property damage and arsonProperty151502+41%
Vehicle theftProperty125415−1%
Drug offensesOther32106−34%
Weapons offensesOther2686+16%

Source and dates

k7nn-b2ep
Source
Los Angeles Police Department, via Los Angeles Open Data (dataset k7nn-b2ep), aggregated by neighborhood
Window
September 2025 to August 2026 (12 months)
Population
30,096 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page
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All neighborhoods
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