Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Harvard Park, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Harvard Park is 2,006 per 100,000 residents per year, 59% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 20 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

2,006 per 100,000 residents, per year

766 reported in the last 12 months

+59% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,978 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,137 reported in the last 12 months

+17% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

5,267 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,011 reported in the last 12 months

+30% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 38,178 for Harvard Park. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Harvard Park sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 20 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.

Harvard Park is among the highest in the city: rank 20 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Manchester Square (2,010), Victoria Park (2,008), Pico-Union (1,965), Hyde Park (1,950).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0158XX S Vermont Ave	60	102	8%
02W Slauson Ave & S Vermont Ave	16	6	2%
03S Vermont Ave & W Slauson Ave	15	3	2%
0417XX W Slauson Ave	12	4	2%
0517XX W 64th St	12	1	2%
0620XX W Florence Ave	11	2	1%
0765XX S Normandie Ave	10	6	1%
088XX W 70th St	9	8	1%
0962XX S Figueroa St	9	3	1%
1012XX W Gage Ave	9	2	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 21% of Harvard Park’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 Harvard Park

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Harvard Park happened between noon and 9 pm. No day of the week stood out.

Violent crime busiest hour 4 pm

Property crime busiest hour 7 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 Harvard Park by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	6	10	16
7 am	7	20	27
8 am	6	25	31
9 am	10	18	28
10 am	15	34	49
11 am	9	28	37
12 pm	11	32	43
1 pm	12	32	44
2 pm	10	43	53
3 pm	13	36	49
4 pm	29	53	82
5 pm	13	36	49
6 pm	16	41	57
7 pm	19	39	58
8 pm	22	43	65
9 pm	9	32	41
10 pm	16	25	41
11 pm	14	34	48
12 am	15	28	43
1 am	11	15	26
2 am	9	15	24
3 am	5	15	20
4 am	8	8	16
5 am	4	6	10
Total with a known time	289	668	957

Property crime in Harvard Park by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	7	18	25
7 am	7	25	32
8 am	6	22	28
9 am	14	26	40
10 am	11	22	33
11 am	13	29	42
12 pm	17	28	45
1 pm	10	32	42
2 pm	11	42	53
3 pm	6	40	46
4 pm	12	29	41
5 pm	13	42	55
6 pm	19	37	56
7 pm	15	43	58
8 pm	12	33	45
9 pm	15	35	50
10 pm	13	28	41
11 pm	10	13	23
12 am	7	24	31
1 am	8	13	21
2 am	3	15	18
3 am	6	16	22
4 am	15	15	30
5 am	8	7	15
Total with a known time	258	634	892

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	759	1,988	+59%
HomicideViolent	7	18	+136%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	688	1,802	+2%
Vehicle theftProperty	300	786	+87%
Property damage and arsonProperty	149	390	+9%
Weapons offensesOther	77	202	+170%
Drug offensesOther	31	81	−50%

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: 38,178 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 Harvard Park
Sep 2025	63
Oct 2025	52
Nov 2025	55
Dec 2025	69
Jan 2026	50
Feb 2026	71
Mar 2026	72
Apr 2026	63
May 2026	79
Jun 2026	71
Jul 2026	69
Aug 2026	52