Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Los Angeles (2024)
Los Angeles's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these LAPD areas are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The LAPD areas at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Los Angeles LAPD areas.
Volume, not a safety rate. LAPD reporting area 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 LAPD reporting area (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 Los Angeles 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 LAPD areas as the safest neighborhoods in los angeles list.
- 1Southwest0/100
- 277th Street2/100
- 3Central16/100
- 4Pacific26/100
- 5Southeast35/100
- 6N Hollywood39/100
- 7Hollywood58/100
- 8Wilshire59/100
- 9Van Nuys63/100
- 10Mission65/100
- 11Devonshire65/100
- 12West Valley66/100
- 13Olympic66/100
- 14Harbor67/100
- 15Topanga68/100
- 16Newton72/100
- 17Rampart75/100
- 18West La84/100
- 19Northeast88/100
- 20Foothill97/100
- 21Hollenbeck100/100
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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 2024. See the full methodology →