Crime in Bell, California
Major crime in Bell is 29% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% higher for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.3% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Murder stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bell for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Bell
The middle half of Bell residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 81; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (71) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5046.6%
- 50–10038.7%
- 100–20013.3%
- 200–4001.4%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.3% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with California as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bell against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
521 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bell; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bell has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cudahy (1 mi), is 38% above Bell's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bell
What are the most common crimes in Bell?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 91 a year), shoplifting (about 69 a year) and other larceny (about 61 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Bell's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bell has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 91.2% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 30,968. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bell, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/bell
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cudahy1 mi98
- Maywood1 mi100
- Huntington Park2 mi178
- Bell Gardens2 mi89
- Walnut Park2 mi146
- South Gate2 mi204
- Florence-Graham3 mi226
- Lynwood4 mi158