Crime in Bell Gardens, California
Major crime in Bell Gardens is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 14% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.5% 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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Weapons violations and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bell Gardens 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 Gardens
The middle half of Bell Gardens residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 52 and 109; the typical (median) resident's is 65. The citywide figure (89) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5020.3%
- 50–10052.9%
- 100–20022.2%
- 200–4004.6%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 4.5% 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 Gardens against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
387 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bell Gardens; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bell Gardens has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cudahy (2 mi), is 10% above Bell Gardens's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bell Gardens
What are the most common crimes in Bell Gardens?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are motor vehicle theft (about 127 a year), shoplifting (about 111 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 102 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 2.1 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 Gardens's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bell Gardens has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 95.8% 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: 37,074. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bell Gardens, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/bell-gardens
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cudahy2 mi98
- Bell2 mi71
- Downey2 mi145
- Maywood2 mi100
- South Gate3 mi204
- Huntington Park4 mi178
- Walnut Park4 mi146
- Lynwood4 mi158