Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Boyle Heights is 1,446 per 100,000 residents per year, 15% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 39 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

1,446 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,137 reported in the last 12 months

+15% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,127 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,672 reported in the last 12 months

−17% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

3,787 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,977 reported in the last 12 months

−6% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 78,611 for Boyle Heights. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Boyle Heights sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 39 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.

Boyle Heights is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 39 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Crenshaw District (1,483), Adams-Normandie (1,462), Wellington Square (1,418), St. Elmo Village (1,417).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0119XX Marengo St	30	2	3%
022XX N Soto St	24	13	2%
0317XX E Cesar E Chavez Ave	18	9	2%
0427XX E 1st St	17	8	1%
051XX S Soto St	17	4	1%
0617XX Zonal Ave	17	2	1%
0724XX E 1st St	17	2	1%
0835XX Whittier Blvd	16	9	1%
0923XX E 1st St	16	5	1%
1036XX E Olympic Blvd	14	48	1%

“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 16% of Boyle Heights’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 Boyle Heights by month
Month	Violent crimes in Boyle Heights
Sep 2025	100
Oct 2025	104
Nov 2025	100
Dec 2025	94
Jan 2026	74
Feb 2026	78
Mar 2026	108
Apr 2026	96
May 2026	91
Jun 2026	100
Jul 2026	110
Aug 2026	82

When crime happens in Boyle Heights

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Boyle Heights happened between 3 pm and 1 am. Friday and Saturday had the most.

Violent crime busiest hour 3 pm

Property crime busiest hour 6 pm

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 Boyle Heights by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	6	9	15
7 am	7	16	23
8 am	17	39	56
9 am	17	36	53
10 am	15	36	51
11 am	26	31	57
12 pm	9	41	50
1 pm	22	43	65
2 pm	21	31	52
3 pm	26	55	81
4 pm	17	45	62
5 pm	24	54	78
6 pm	17	53	70
7 pm	14	51	65
8 pm	17	55	72
9 pm	17	42	59
10 pm	25	42	67
11 pm	25	35	60
12 am	26	38	64
1 am	27	17	44
2 am	17	19	36
3 am	18	13	31
4 am	8	9	17
5 am	12	8	20
Total with a known time	430	818	1,248

Property crime in Boyle Heights by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	20	31	51
7 am	9	23	32
8 am	15	41	56
9 am	19	37	56
10 am	19	41	60
11 am	21	42	63
12 pm	21	42	63
1 pm	14	40	54
2 pm	24	63	87
3 pm	24	45	69
4 pm	26	39	65
5 pm	20	64	84
6 pm	27	67	94
7 pm	26	55	81
8 pm	25	54	79
9 pm	23	60	83
10 pm	27	56	83
11 pm	31	47	78
12 am	15	41	56
1 am	17	27	44
2 am	10	21	31
3 am	15	13	28
4 am	8	22	30
5 am	10	29	39
Total with a known time	466	1,000	1,466

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	1,128	1,435	+14%
HomicideViolent	9	11	+47%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	957	1,217	−31%
Vehicle theftProperty	431	548	+31%
Property damage and arsonProperty	284	361	+1%
Drug offensesOther	87	111	−31%
Weapons offensesOther	81	103	+38%

Source and dates

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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: 78,611 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page: Crime in Los Angeles, CA
All neighborhoods: Los Angeles neighborhoods by reported crime rate