Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Long Beach (2026)
Long Beach's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these LBPD police beats are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The LBPD police beats at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Long Beach LBPD police beats.
Volume, not a safety rate. LBPD police beat resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the LBPD police beat (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Long Beach zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same LBPD police beats as the safest neighborhoods in long beach list.
- 1Beat 60/100
- 2Beat 829/100
- 3Beat 444/100
- 4Beat 2157/100
- 5Beat 1161/100
- 6Beat 765/100
- 7Beat 2466/100
- 8Beat 567/100
- 9Beat 367/100
- 10Beat 971/100
- 11Beat 2272/100
- 12Beat 1273/100
- 13Beat 1077/100
- 14Beat 2079/100
- 15Beat 2380/100
- 16Beat 183/100
- 17Beat 288/100
- 18Beat 1988/100
- 19Beat 1488/100
- 20Beat 1690/100
- 21Beat 1891/100
- 22Beat 1592/100
- 23Beat 1392/100
- 24Beat 1796/100
- 25Beat 25100/100
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Long Beach — FAQ
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No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2026. See the full methodology →