County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Los Angeles County, CA
At 10,014,009 residents, Los Angeles County is a very large county in California. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Los Angeles County, CA reported 59 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Los Angeles County, CA agencies reported 5,909 violent and 17,982 property offenses. That equals about 59 violent and 180 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
5,909 violent offenses
59/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Los Angeles County, CA
Position in the state cohort
Los Angeles County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California counties
At 59.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Los Angeles County ranks 43 of 56 — above 13 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -54.5% against the cohort median of 129.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
Los Angeles County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 23,891 Part I offenses reported here are 22.6% of the 105,568 reported across all 56 comparable California counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 10,014,009 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 52.3% of reported property offenses in Los Angeles County, against a cohort median of 66.2%. The remainder is burglary (3,168) and motor vehicle theft (5,414). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 24.7% of the 23,891 Part I offenses reported in Los Angeles County for 2024, against a median of 29.6% across comparable California counties — a gap of 4.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 56.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 59.0 in 2024 (+5.4%). The highest observed value was 63.7 in 2022 and the lowest 56.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
17,982
Burglary
3,168
Larceny-Theft
9,400
Motor Vehicle Theft
5,414
Arson
258
Violent Crime
5,909
Murder
68
Rape
260
Robbery
1,424
Aggravated Assault
4,157
Reporting Agency
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office Summary Reporting (SRS)
Los Angeles County's crime figures on this page originate from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Counties in California
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the California counties closest to Los Angeles County in population. Their populations run from 1,936,259 to 3,298,634, against 10,014,009 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.