Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Van Nuys, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Van Nuys is 1,346 per 100,000 residents per year, 7% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 45 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

1,346 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,216 reported in the last 12 months

+7% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,445 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,209 reported in the last 12 months

−4% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

4,040 per 100,000 residents, per year

3,650 reported in the last 12 months

no change vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 90,338 for Van Nuys. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Van Nuys sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 45 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.

Van Nuys is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 45 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Temple-Beaudry (1,374), Marina Peninsula (1,367), Vernon Central (1,339), Little Bangladesh (1,325).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0162XX Sylmar Ave	25	25	2%
0281XX Langdon Ave	23	4	2%
03136XX Sherman Way	20	12	2%
0461XX N Sepulveda Blvd	17	54	1%
0576XX Van Nuys Blvd	16	22	1%
06144XX Vanowen St	16	4	1%
0765XX Van Nuys Blvd	15	47	1%
0869XX N Sepulveda Blvd	15	13	1%
09151XX Vanowen St	14	7	1%
10135XX Sherman Way	14	4	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 Van Nuys’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 Van Nuys

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Van Nuys happened between noon and 10 pm. Sunday had the most.

Violent crime busiest hour 4 pm

Property crime busiest hour 6 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 Van Nuys by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	5	14	19
7 am	13	21	34
8 am	18	43	61
9 am	21	42	63
10 am	12	44	56
11 am	17	49	66
12 pm	20	35	55
1 pm	15	52	67
2 pm	14	59	73
3 pm	20	46	66
4 pm	17	65	82
5 pm	24	54	78
6 pm	18	47	65
7 pm	19	47	66
8 pm	19	56	75
9 pm	20	51	71
10 pm	13	39	52
11 pm	22	44	66
12 am	16	35	51
1 am	15	21	36
2 am	13	19	32
3 am	17	15	32
4 am	8	11	19
5 am	5	13	18
Total with a known time	381	922	1,303

Property crime in Van Nuys by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	13	30	43
7 am	22	34	56
8 am	18	62	80
9 am	18	57	75
10 am	35	81	116
11 am	27	62	89
12 pm	33	72	105
1 pm	30	85	115
2 pm	38	85	123
3 pm	31	73	104
4 pm	31	93	124
5 pm	45	86	131
6 pm	43	92	135
7 pm	35	90	125
8 pm	39	68	107
9 pm	20	64	84
10 pm	29	55	84
11 pm	13	42	55
12 am	14	42	56
1 am	14	32	46
2 am	17	26	43
3 am	16	32	48
4 am	14	36	50
5 am	8	16	24
Total with a known time	603	1,415	2,018

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	1,207	1,336	+7%
HomicideViolent	9	10.0	+28%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	1,570	1,738	−2%
Vehicle theftProperty	335	371	−12%
Property damage and arsonProperty	304	337	−6%
Drug offensesOther	167	185	+15%
Weapons offensesOther	58	64	−14%

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: 90,338 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 Van Nuys
Sep 2025	111
Oct 2025	95
Nov 2025	99
Dec 2025	97
Jan 2026	90
Feb 2026	94
Mar 2026	89
Apr 2026	113
May 2026	112
Jun 2026	102
Jul 2026	106
Aug 2026	108