Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Florence-Firestone, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Florence-Firestone is 2,433 per 100,000 residents per year, 93% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 8 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

2,433 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,114 reported in the last 12 months

+93% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,768 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,267 reported in the last 12 months

+9% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

5,544 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,538 reported in the last 12 months

+37% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 45,781 for Florence-Firestone. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Florence-Firestone sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 8 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.

Florence-Firestone is among the highest in the city: rank 8 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Vermont Vista (2,623), Hollywood (2,620), Century Palms/Cove (2,384), Elysian Park (2,357).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0176XX S Broadway	58	28	5%
023XX E Florence Ave	14	16	1%
0376XX S San Pedro St	13	5	1%
0467XX S Main St	13	2	1%
059XX E Slauson Ave	11	20	1%
0668XX Avalon Blvd	11	4	1%
079XX E 79th St	11	3	1%
0869XX S Main St	10	3	1%
093XX E 61st St	10	2	1%
1065XX S Broadway	9	6	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 14% of Florence-Firestone’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 Florence-Firestone by month
Month	Violent crimes in Florence-Firestone
Sep 2025	101
Oct 2025	92
Nov 2025	87
Dec 2025	92
Jan 2026	84
Feb 2026	81
Mar 2026	104
Apr 2026	111
May 2026	99
Jun 2026	88
Jul 2026	91
Aug 2026	84

When crime happens in Florence-Firestone

12 months to Sep 2026

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

Violent crime busiest hour 3 pm

Property crime busiest hour 3 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 Florence-Firestone by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	9	19	28
7 am	7	25	32
8 am	11	34	45
9 am	19	40	59
10 am	8	48	56
11 am	23	46	69
12 pm	13	33	46
1 pm	12	43	55
2 pm	18	54	72
3 pm	27	60	87
4 pm	22	43	65
5 pm	20	57	77
6 pm	22	59	81
7 pm	16	45	61
8 pm	22	42	64
9 pm	26	60	86
10 pm	15	25	40
11 pm	23	35	58
12 am	24	26	50
1 am	12	32	44
2 am	15	27	42
3 am	10	18	28
4 am	10	23	33
5 am	6	5	11
Total with a known time	390	899	1,289

Property crime in Florence-Firestone by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	4	23	27
7 am	13	25	38
8 am	13	39	52
9 am	9	25	34
10 am	10	33	43
11 am	16	27	43
12 pm	11	32	43
1 pm	20	24	44
2 pm	15	29	44
3 pm	20	44	64
4 pm	12	33	45
5 pm	15	44	59
6 pm	12	41	53
7 pm	19	30	49
8 pm	14	31	45
9 pm	17	43	60
10 pm	20	36	56
11 pm	14	32	46
12 am	13	20	33
1 am	9	22	31
2 am	8	21	29
3 am	9	21	30
4 am	8	29	37
5 am	7	18	25
Total with a known time	308	722	1,030

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	1,110	2,425	+93%
HomicideViolent	4	8.7	+12%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	653	1,426	−19%
Vehicle theftProperty	451	985	+135%
Property damage and arsonProperty	163	356	no change
Weapons offensesOther	118	258	+246%
Drug offensesOther	39	85	−47%

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: 45,781 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page: Crime in Los Angeles, CA
All neighborhoods: Los Angeles neighborhoods by reported crime rate