Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Central, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Central is 1,609 per 100,000 residents per year, 28% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 33 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

1,609 per 100,000 residents, per year

559 reported in the last 12 months

+28% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,568 per 100,000 residents, per year

892 reported in the last 12 months

+1% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

4,479 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,556 reported in the last 12 months

+11% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 34,738 for Central. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Central sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 33 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.

Central is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 33 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Figueroa Park Square (1,694), Leimert Park (1,693), Wilshire Center (1,609), Venice (1,597).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0134XX S Central Ave	21	16	4%
0221XX S Central Ave	16	12	3%
0340XX S Main St	14	140	3%
0432XX S Central Ave	13	86	2%
0513XX E 21st St	10	6	2%
0642XX S Central Ave	8	6	1%
079XX E Jefferson Blvd	7	6	1%
0838XX Wall St	7	4	1%
0910XX E 23rd St	7	3	1%
1040XX S Central Ave	7	3	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 20% of Central’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

When crime happens in Central

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Central happened between 1 pm and 10 pm. No day of the week stood out.

Violent crime busiest hour 4 pm

Property crime busiest hour 5 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; 2% 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 Central by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	3	8	11
7 am	8	12	20
8 am	9	13	22
9 am	13	24	37
10 am	8	23	31
11 am	5	22	27
12 pm	13	21	34
1 pm	11	26	37
2 pm	7	20	27
3 pm	8	28	36
4 pm	8	37	45
5 pm	7	29	36
6 pm	6	25	31
7 pm	8	26	34
8 pm	13	28	41
9 pm	10	27	37
10 pm	14	21	35
11 pm	10	19	29
12 am	13	15	28
1 am	9	11	20
2 am	2	2	4
3 am	9	3	12
4 am	4	4	8
5 am	1	4	5
Total with a known time	199	448	647

Property crime in Central by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	4	9	13
7 am	5	6	11
8 am	5	20	25
9 am	14	19	33
10 am	9	25	34
11 am	15	30	45
12 pm	11	31	42
1 pm	13	24	37
2 pm	8	24	32
3 pm	18	33	51
4 pm	10	40	50
5 pm	21	52	73
6 pm	9	43	52
7 pm	17	39	56
8 pm	21	31	52
9 pm	17	17	34
10 pm	7	26	33
11 pm	10	15	25
12 am	10	14	24
1 am	9	5	14
2 am	13	14	27
3 am	6	17	23
4 am	6	15	21
5 am	6	8	14
Total with a known time	264	557	821

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	554	1,595	+27%
HomicideViolent	5	14	+85%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	582	1,675	−5%
Vehicle theftProperty	188	541	+29%
Property damage and arsonProperty	122	351	−2%
Weapons offensesOther	81	233	+213%
Drug offensesOther	24	69	−57%

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: 34,738 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page: Crime in Los Angeles, CA
All neighborhoods: Los Angeles neighborhoods by reported crime rate

Month	Violent crimes in Central
Sep 2025	43
Oct 2025	42
Nov 2025	32
Dec 2025	39
Jan 2026	44
Feb 2026	35
Mar 2026	43
Apr 2026	64
May 2026	53
Jun 2026	56
Jul 2026	55
Aug 2026	53