Los Angeles, CA has a F safety grade (17/100) with a violent crime rate of 729 per 100,000, 107% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Los Angeles, CA Crime Rate & Safety
At 3,796,352 residents, Los Angeles is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Los Angeles, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 107% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Los Angeles, CA shows violent crime at 728.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,483.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 107% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
728.5/100K violent
1483.9/100K property
+107% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Los Angeles, CA
Position in the state cohort
Los Angeles reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable California cities
At 728.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Los Angeles ranks 48 of 458 — above 410 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +121.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
Los Angeles's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the California cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Los Angeles's 728.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hawthorne (727.4), Weed (723.8), Fresno (735.5), Hawaiian Gardens (736.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 32.9% of the 83,991 Part I offenses reported in Los Angeles for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 15.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 57.4% of reported property offenses in Los Angeles, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (14,152) and motor vehicle theft (9,857). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 721.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 728.5 in 2024 (+0.9%). The highest observed value was 834.1 in 2022 and the lowest 721.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Los Angeles'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.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Los Angeles's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 470.5 Census sq mi, Los Angeles logged 119.7 property and 58.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Los Angeles's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,450); larceny-theft still leads at 38%.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (470.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-48%
2851.4 → 1483.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.2%
820 → 728.5/100K
Property offenses lead Los Angeles's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CA
Property Crime
56,335
1483.9
1985.9
Larceny-Theft
32,326
851.5
-
Burglary
14,152
372.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
9,857
259.6
-
Arson
407
10.7
-
Violent Crime
27,656
728.5
476.8
Aggravated Assault
17,895
471.4
-
Robbery
7,967
209.9
-
Rape
1,530
40.3
-
Murder
264
7
-
Los Angeles Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Los Angeles property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Los Angeles Police Department
Reporting agency for Los Angeles NIBRS-participating
Los Angeles Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Los Angeles's 83,991 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Angeles in population. Their populations run from 416,120 to 1,389,024, against 3,796,352 here. Or use our
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Los Angeles at 728.5/100K violent and 1,483.9/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Los Angeles reported 27,656 violent crimes and 56,335 property crimes, for a total of 83,991 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Los Angeles?
From 2023 to 2024, Los Angeles's violent crime rate decreased by 11.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 48%.
What is the most common crime in Los Angeles?
The most common crime type in Los Angeles is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.5% of all reported crimes (32,326 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Los Angeles's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Los Angeles, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.