Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Pacoima, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Pacoima is 855 per 100,000 residents per year, 32% below Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 81 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

855 per 100,000 residents, per year

616 reported in the last 12 months

−32% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

1,091 per 100,000 residents, per year

786 reported in the last 12 months

−57% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

2,154 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,552 reported in the last 12 months

−47% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 72,055 for Pacoima. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Pacoima sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 81 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.

Pacoima is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 81 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Sun Valley (884), Valley Village (873), Encino (855), Lake Balboa (848).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
01127XX Osborne St	15	22	2%
02122XX Foothill Blvd	11	0	2%
03135XX Paxton St	9	48	1%
04127XX Van Nuys Blvd	8	3	1%
05100XX San Fernando Rd	8	0	1%
0697XX Laurel Canyon Blvd	6	21	1%
07104XX Laurel Canyon Blvd	6	1	1%
08Laurel Canyon Blvd & Osborne St	6	1	1%
09126XX Van Nuys Blvd	5	4	1%
10132XX Pinney St	5	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 13% of Pacoima’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 Pacoima

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Pacoima happened between 2 pm and 11 pm. No day of the week stood out.

Violent crime busiest hour 9 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; 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 Pacoima by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	2	8	10
7 am	9	12	21
8 am	6	13	19
9 am	10	11	21
10 am	4	11	15
11 am	9	28	37
12 pm	8	23	31
1 pm	7	26	33
2 pm	4	23	27
3 pm	10	24	34
4 pm	8	26	34
5 pm	13	26	39
6 pm	12	21	33
7 pm	11	27	38
8 pm	13	23	36
9 pm	14	34	48
10 pm	9	30	39
11 pm	12	13	25
12 am	13	17	30
1 am	12	17	29
2 am	7	8	15
3 am	4	3	7
4 am	2	4	6
5 am	4	14	18
Total with a known time	203	442	645

Property crime in Pacoima by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	3	15	18
7 am	7	20	27
8 am	6	21	27
9 am	3	11	14
10 am	6	26	32
11 am	9	17	26
12 pm	9	23	32
1 pm	7	29	36
2 pm	4	31	35
3 pm	7	23	30
4 pm	12	31	43
5 pm	11	27	38
6 pm	14	29	43
7 pm	10	35	45
8 pm	10	28	38
9 pm	15	23	38
10 pm	15	25	40
11 pm	11	12	23
12 am	8	22	30
1 am	6	16	22
2 am	8	11	19
3 am	6	14	20
4 am	6	11	17
5 am	2	10	12
Total with a known time	195	510	705

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	612	849	−32%
HomicideViolent	4	5.6	−29%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	438	608	−66%
Vehicle theftProperty	182	253	−40%
Property damage and arsonProperty	166	230	−35%
Drug offensesOther	85	118	−27%
Weapons offensesOther	65	90	+21%

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: 72,055 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 Pacoima
Sep 2025	50
Oct 2025	56
Nov 2025	47
Dec 2025	53
Jan 2026	43
Feb 2026	39
Mar 2026	57
Apr 2026	44
May 2026	55
Jun 2026	61
Jul 2026	61
Aug 2026	50