Violent crime
1,709 per 100,000 residents, per year
722 reported in the last 12 months
+35% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)
Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department
Crime in Watts, Los Angeles
The violent crime rate in Watts is 1,709 per 100,000 residents per year, 35% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 28 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.
The numbers
12 months to Aug 2026Property crime
2,081 per 100,000 residents, per year
879 reported in the last 12 months
−18% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)
All reported
4,090 per 100,000 residents, per year
1,728 reported in the last 12 months
+1% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)
Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 42,246 for Watts. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.
Where Watts sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate
rank 28 of 132Loading map…
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.
Watts is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 28 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Baldwin Hills (1,798), University Park (1,732), Lafayette Square (1,698), South Park (1,697).
Blocks with the most violent incidents
12 months to Sep 2026| Block | Violent | Property | Share of area’s violent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0116XX E 103rd St | 35 | 25 | 5% |
| 0221XX E 101st St | 10 | 8 | 1% |
| 03101XX Grape St | 9 | 7 | 1% |
| 0422XX E 111th St | 9 | 5 | 1% |
| 0513XX E 114th St | 9 | 2 | 1% |
| 0623XX E Century Blvd | 9 | 2 | 1% |
| 0722XX E 115th St | 8 | 6 | 1% |
| 0819XX E 115th St | 8 | 3 | 1% |
| 0922XX E Century Blvd | 8 | 3 | 1% |
| 1014XX E 115th St | 8 | 1 | 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 16% of Watts’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| Month | Violent crimes in Watts |
|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 50 |
| Oct 2025 | 74 |
| Nov 2025 | 46 |
| Dec 2025 | 53 |
| Jan 2026 | 47 |
| Feb 2026 | 55 |
| Mar 2026 | 57 |
| Apr 2026 | 65 |
| May 2026 | 81 |
| Jun 2026 | 58 |
| Jul 2026 | 76 |
| Aug 2026 | 60 |
When crime happens in Watts
12 months to Sep 2026In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Watts happened between 2 pm and 11 pm. No day of the week stood out.
Violent crime busiest hour 2 pm
Property crime busiest hour 10 am
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
| Hour | Friday and Saturday | Sunday to Thursday | All days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 am | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 7 am | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 8 am | 7 | 15 | 22 |
| 9 am | 18 | 21 | 39 |
| 10 am | 9 | 29 | 38 |
| 11 am | 9 | 34 | 43 |
| 12 pm | 7 | 34 | 41 |
| 1 pm | 9 | 23 | 32 |
| 2 pm | 20 | 44 | 64 |
| 3 pm | 19 | 36 | 55 |
| 4 pm | 10 | 39 | 49 |
| 5 pm | 11 | 45 | 56 |
| 6 pm | 16 | 32 | 48 |
| 7 pm | 17 | 33 | 50 |
| 8 pm | 19 | 27 | 46 |
| 9 pm | 18 | 35 | 53 |
| 10 pm | 11 | 33 | 44 |
| 11 pm | 13 | 20 | 33 |
| 12 am | 18 | 19 | 37 |
| 1 am | 7 | 21 | 28 |
| 2 am | 7 | 17 | 24 |
| 3 am | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 am | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 5 am | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Total with a known time | 261 | 606 | 867 |
| Hour | Friday and Saturday | Sunday to Thursday | All days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 am | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 7 am | 2 | 15 | 17 |
| 8 am | 5 | 19 | 24 |
| 9 am | 14 | 12 | 26 |
| 10 am | 12 | 33 | 45 |
| 11 am | 16 | 23 | 39 |
| 12 pm | 7 | 30 | 37 |
| 1 pm | 12 | 33 | 45 |
| 2 pm | 13 | 28 | 41 |
| 3 pm | 8 | 27 | 35 |
| 4 pm | 10 | 23 | 33 |
| 5 pm | 15 | 26 | 41 |
| 6 pm | 9 | 32 | 41 |
| 7 pm | 9 | 24 | 33 |
| 8 pm | 10 | 34 | 44 |
| 9 pm | 10 | 32 | 42 |
| 10 pm | 12 | 29 | 41 |
| 11 pm | 11 | 15 | 26 |
| 12 am | 9 | 20 | 29 |
| 1 am | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2 am | 5 | 14 | 19 |
| 3 am | 6 | 19 | 25 |
| 4 am | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 5 am | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Total with a known time | 210 | 524 | 734 |
Reported crime by type
last 12 months| Offense | Reported | Per 100k, per year | vs. Los Angeles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assault and batteryViolent | 717 | 1,697 | +35% |
| HomicideViolent | 5 | 12 | +52% |
| Theft, burglary and robberyProperty | 514 | 1,217 | −31% |
| Vehicle theftProperty | 188 | 445 | +6% |
| Property damage and arsonProperty | 177 | 419 | +17% |
| Weapons offensesOther | 101 | 239 | +221% |
| Drug offensesOther | 26 | 62 | −62% |
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
- 42,246 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
- City page
- Crime in Los Angeles, CA
- All neighborhoods
- Los Angeles neighborhoods by reported crime rate