Westlake Village, CA has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 148 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Westlake Village is a small municipal reporter (7,437 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with CA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Westlake Village, CA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Westlake Village, CA shows violent crime at 147.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,922.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Westlake Village reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,437. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Westlake Village's 147.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Los Gatos (147.7), Calexico (147.0), Oakley (146.1), Manhattan Beach (149.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 147.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Westlake Village ranks 381 of 458 — above 77 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -55.6% against the cohort median of 333.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 109.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 147.9 in 2024 (+34.9%). The highest observed value was 238.5 in 2023 and the lowest 109.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.1% of the 154 Part I offenses reported in Westlake Village for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 10.0 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
Larceny-theft is 60.8% of reported property offenses in Westlake Village, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (35) and motor vehicle theft (21). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Westlake Village'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.
Based on 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,437. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 5.2 Census sq mi, Westlake Village logged 27.6 property and 2.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Westlake Village leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,938.
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Westlake Village offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 143 | 1922.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 87 | 1169.8 |
| Burglary | 35 | 470.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 21 | 282.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 26.9 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 147.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 134.5 |
| Robbery | 1 | 13.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,207 | 109.7 | 1571.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,005 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,678 | 130.2 | 1888.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,548 | 238.5 | 1934.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,437 | 147.9 | 1922.8 |
Westlake Village Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Westlake Village's 154 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Westlake Village in population. Their populations run from 7,171 to 7,458, against 7,437 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Westlake Village sits at 147.9/100K violent (grade B); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Westlake Village reported 11 violent crimes and 143 property crimes, for a total of 154 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Westlake Village's violent crime rate decreased by 38%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.6%.
The most common crime type in Westlake Village is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.5% of all reported crimes (87 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Westlake Village is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Westlake Village's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Westlake Village, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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