Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in West Los Angeles, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in West Los Angeles is 771 per 100,000 residents per year, 39% below Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 89 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

771 per 100,000 residents, per year

290 reported in the last 12 months

−39% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

3,316 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,247 reported in the last 12 months

+30% vs. Los Angeles (2,548)

All reported

4,259 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,602 reported in the last 12 months

+5% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 37,611 for West Los Angeles. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where West Los Angeles sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 89 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.

West Los Angeles is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 89 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Lakeview Terrace (797), Harbor City (788), Miracle Mile (770), Sylmar (763).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
01118XX Santa Monica Blvd	14	61	5%
02110XX Santa Monica Blvd	13	6	4%
0316XX Butler Ave	12	37	4%
04113XX Santa Monica Blvd	6	4	2%
05120XX Wilshire Blvd	5	23	2%
06108XX Santa Monica Blvd	5	6	2%

“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 6 account for 19% of West Los Angeles’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

Violent crimes in West Los Angeles by month
Month	Violent crimes in West Los Angeles
Sep 2025	25
Oct 2025	32
Nov 2025	22
Dec 2025	23
Jan 2026	26
Feb 2026	28
Mar 2026	20
Apr 2026	20
May 2026	12
Jun 2026	29
Jul 2026	23
Aug 2026	30

When crime happens in West Los Angeles

12 months to Sep 2026

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

Violent crime busiest hour 2 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 West Los Angeles by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	3	5	8
7 am	1	7	8
8 am	4	6	10
9 am	4	11	15
10 am	6	7	13
11 am	5	6	11
12 pm	8	11	19
1 pm	2	15	17
2 pm	10	20	30
3 pm	4	9	13
4 pm	5	14	19
5 pm	8	13	21
6 pm	4	11	15
7 pm	7	13	20
8 pm	4	8	12
9 pm	5	11	16
10 pm	6	9	15
11 pm	4	10	14
12 am	6	8	14
1 am	3	4	7
2 am	4	4	8
3 am	0	3	3
4 am	0	0	0
5 am	1	1	2
Total with a known time	104	206	310

Property crime in West Los Angeles by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	4	17	21
7 am	6	14	20
8 am	17	22	39
9 am	20	37	57
10 am	16	44	60
11 am	14	41	55
12 pm	17	30	47
1 pm	18	45	63
2 pm	23	35	58
3 pm	28	38	66
4 pm	26	58	84
5 pm	24	61	85
6 pm	17	72	89
7 pm	21	70	91
8 pm	21	44	65
9 pm	17	40	57
10 pm	13	30	43
11 pm	13	17	30
12 am	12	25	37
1 am	5	13	18
2 am	3	16	19
3 am	4	18	22
4 am	4	22	26
5 am	6	6	12
Total with a known time	349	815	1,164

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	289	768	−39%
HomicideViolent	1	2.7	−66%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	955	2,539	+43%
Property damage and arsonProperty	162	431	+21%
Vehicle theftProperty	130	346	−18%
Drug offensesOther	55	146	−9%
Weapons offensesOther	10	27	−64%

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: 37,611 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page: Crime in Los Angeles, CA
All neighborhoods: Los Angeles neighborhoods by reported crime rate