Los Alamitos, CA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 0% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Los Alamitos, CA shows violent crime at 351.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,833.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 0% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
351.6/100K violent
1833.4/100K property
-0% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Los Alamitos, CA
Comparable rate records
Los Alamitos's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Los Alamitos's 351.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Healdsburg (352.4), Covina (352.5), Rosemead (352.9), Cerritos (350.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 45.2% of reported property offenses in Los Alamitos, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (97) and motor vehicle theft (23). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Los Alamitos sits mid-pack among comparable California cities
At 351.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Los Alamitos ranks 220 of 458 — above 238 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +7.0% against the cohort median of 328.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Los Alamitos's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Los Alamitos's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4 Census sq mi, Los Alamitos logged 54.6 property and 10.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Los Alamitos leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,082.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-14.4%
410.8 → 351.6/100K
Property offenses lead Los Alamitos's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
vs US avg
Property Crime
219
1833.4
1985.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
99
828.8
-
-
Burglary
97
812.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
23
192.5
-
-
Arson
3
25.1
-
-
Violent Crime
42
351.6
476.8
352
Aggravated Assault
35
293
-
-
Robbery
4
33.5
-
-
Rape
3
25.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Los Alamitos Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Los Alamitos Police Department
Reporting agency for Los Alamitos NIBRS-participating
Los Alamitos Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Los Alamitos's 261 reported offenses (1-year span 2024-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in California
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Los Alamitos in population. Their populations run from 11,464 to 12,432, against 11,945 here. Or use our
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Los Alamitos at 351.6/100K violent and 1,833.4/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Los Alamitos reported 42 violent crimes and 219 property crimes, for a total of 261 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Los Alamitos?
From 2023 to 2024, Los Alamitos's violent crime rate decreased by 14.4%.
What is the most common crime in Los Alamitos?
The most common crime type in Los Alamitos is larceny-theft, accounting for 37.9% of all reported crimes (99 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Los Alamitos figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Los Alamitos, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.