Crime in Bellflower, California
Major crime in Bellflower is 37% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 29% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.7% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bellflower 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 Bellflower
The middle half of Bellflower residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 93 and 164; the typical (median) resident's is 130.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10030.6%
- 100–20061.9%
- 200–4007.6%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 9.7% 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.
Bellflower against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
115 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bellflower; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bellflower has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Paramount (2 mi), is 19% above Bellflower's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bellflower
What are the most common crimes in Bellflower?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are motor vehicle theft (about 333 a year), aggravated assault (about 299 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 274 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.8 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. Bellflower's figures add up its 49 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bellflower's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 59.2% 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: 74,213. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bellflower, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/bellflower
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Paramount2 mi164
- Lakewood3 mi131
- Norwalk3 mi105
- Artesia3 mi125
- Downey4 mi145
- Cerritos4 mi229
- East Rancho Dominguez4 mi89
- Santa Fe Springs5 mi283