Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Sherman Oaks is 688 per 100,000 residents per year, 45% below Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 100 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

688 per 100,000 residents, per year

604 reported in the last 12 months

−45% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,398 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,106 reported in the last 12 months

−6% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

3,154 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,770 reported in the last 12 months

−22% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 87,828 for Sherman Oaks. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Sherman Oaks sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 100 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.

Sherman Oaks is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 100 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Del Rey (714), Hollywood Hills (701), Toluca Lake (678), Studio City (651).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0149XX Van Nuys Blvd	13	6	2%
02144XX Burbank Blvd	11	8	2%
03140XX Riverside Dr	10	173	2%
04145XX Burbank Blvd	9	8	1%
0550XX Greenbush Ave	9	4	1%
06144XX Emelita St	9	2	1%
0744XX Van Nuys Blvd	8	8	1%
08153XX Ventura Blvd	7	15	1%
09140XX Ventura Blvd	7	11	1%
10142XX Huston St	7	8	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 15% of Sherman Oaks’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 Sherman Oaks

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Sherman Oaks happened between 11 am and 8 pm. No day of the week stood out.

Violent crime busiest hour 1 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 Sherman Oaks by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	5	5	10
7 am	3	13	16
8 am	5	18	23
9 am	5	27	32
10 am	9	20	29
11 am	15	23	38
12 pm	11	33	44
1 pm	16	29	45
2 pm	8	24	32
3 pm	8	31	39
4 pm	9	29	38
5 pm	11	24	35
6 pm	3	30	33
7 pm	14	31	45
8 pm	9	18	27
9 pm	10	28	38
10 pm	10	23	33
11 pm	7	18	25
12 am	4	17	21
1 am	7	16	23
2 am	7	10	17
3 am	2	11	13
4 am	3	6	9
5 am	4	6	10
Total with a known time	185	490	675

Property crime in Sherman Oaks by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	12	21	33
7 am	11	31	42
8 am	25	62	87
9 am	25	47	72
10 am	25	50	75
11 am	27	54	81
12 pm	34	54	88
1 pm	33	58	91
2 pm	34	92	126
3 pm	39	66	105
4 pm	31	75	106
5 pm	48	109	157
6 pm	47	97	144
7 pm	31	85	116
8 pm	34	86	120
9 pm	22	87	109
10 pm	26	62	88
11 pm	19	37	56
12 am	19	41	60
1 am	16	37	53
2 am	8	26	34
3 am	10	42	52
4 am	17	29	46
5 am	11	24	35
Total with a known time	604	1,372	1,976

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	601	684	−45%
HomicideViolent	3	3.4	−56%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	1,598	1,819	+3%
Vehicle theftProperty	267	304	−28%
Property damage and arsonProperty	241	274	−23%
Drug offensesOther	46	52	−67%
Weapons offensesOther	14	16	−79%

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: 87,828 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 Sherman Oaks
Sep 2025	43
Oct 2025	63
Nov 2025	53
Dec 2025	46
Jan 2026	39
Feb 2026	40
Mar 2026	51
Apr 2026	62
May 2026	55
Jun 2026	54
Jul 2026	58
Aug 2026	40