Data through August 2026, Los Angeles Police Department

Crime in Wilshire Center, Los Angeles

The violent crime rate in Wilshire Center is 1,609 per 100,000 residents per year, 28% above Los Angeles as a whole (1,262). It ranks 34 of 132 neighborhoods, where 1 is the highest rate.

The numbers

12 months to Aug 2026

Violent crime

1,609 per 100,000 residents, per year

758 reported in the last 12 months

+28% vs. Los Angeles (1,262)

Property crime

2,596 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,223 reported in the last 12 months

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

All reported

4,466 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,104 reported in the last 12 months

+10% vs. Los Angeles (4,045)

Rates use an estimated population (2020 Census blocks, scaled to today’s city total) of 47,107 for Wilshire Center. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending August 2026.

Where Wilshire Center sits in Los Angeles, and where incidents concentrate

rank 34 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.

Wilshire Center is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 34 of 132. Nearby in the ranking: Leimert Park (1,693), Central (1,609), Venice (1,597), Gramercy Place (1,519).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026

Block	Violent	Property	Share of area’s violent
0131XX Wilshire Blvd	35	60	5%
0234XX W 3rd St	21	25	3%
03W 3rd St & S Vermont Ave	18	5	2%
042XX S Mariposa Ave	16	13	2%
053XX S Catalina St	15	17	2%
063XX N Vermont Ave	15	12	2%
076XX Shatto Pl	14	8	2%
087XX S Vermont Ave	13	6	2%
093XX N Madison Ave	13	4	2%
1036XX W 3rd St	12	8	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 10 account for 23% of Wilshire Center’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 Wilshire Center by month
Month	Violent crimes in Wilshire Center
Sep 2025	58
Oct 2025	56
Nov 2025	58
Dec 2025	67
Jan 2026	66
Feb 2026	63
Mar 2026	66
Apr 2026	67
May 2026	78
Jun 2026	63
Jul 2026	62
Aug 2026	54

When crime happens in Wilshire Center

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Wilshire Center happened between 3 pm and 1 am. No day of the week stood out.

Violent crime busiest hour 6 pm

Property crime busiest hour 3 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 Wilshire Center by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	5	13	18
7 am	9	17	26
8 am	8	17	25
9 am	9	22	31
10 am	11	22	33
11 am	11	27	38
12 pm	12	29	41
1 pm	8	26	34
2 pm	10	27	37
3 pm	18	32	50
4 pm	11	42	53
5 pm	14	15	29
6 pm	18	36	54
7 pm	14	29	43
8 pm	15	37	52
9 pm	12	27	39
10 pm	13	37	50
11 pm	11	23	34
12 am	13	35	48
1 am	21	18	39
2 am	7	16	23
3 am	9	14	23
4 am	8	13	21
5 am	5	6	11
Total with a known time	272	580	852

Property crime in Wilshire Center by hour, last 12 months
Hour	Friday and Saturday	Sunday to Thursday	All days
6 am	5	10	15
7 am	3	19	22
8 am	5	30	35
9 am	12	23	35
10 am	20	28	48
11 am	11	29	40
12 pm	18	29	47
1 pm	15	37	52
2 pm	22	47	69
3 pm	24	48	72
4 pm	18	39	57
5 pm	14	46	60
6 pm	19	51	70
7 pm	25	38	63
8 pm	23	39	62
9 pm	21	46	67
10 pm	20	44	64
11 pm	16	43	59
12 am	14	28	42
1 am	10	24	34
2 am	12	21	33
3 am	9	12	21
4 am	3	12	15
5 am	5	24	29
Total with a known time	344	767	1,111

Reported crime by type

last 12 months

Offense	Reported	Per 100k, per year	vs. Los Angeles
Assault and batteryViolent	756	1,605	+28%
HomicideViolent	2	4.2	−45%
Theft, burglary and robberyProperty	809	1,717	−3%
Property damage and arsonProperty	237	503	+41%
Vehicle theftProperty	177	376	−11%
Drug offensesOther	97	206	+28%
Weapons offensesOther	26	55	−26%

Source and dates

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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: 47,107 residents, estimated from 2020 Census blocks
City page: Crime in Los Angeles, CA
All neighborhoods: Los Angeles neighborhoods by reported crime rate