Crime in East Los Angeles, California
Major crime in East Los Angeles is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.8 times for persons crimes and 32% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.3% 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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Robbery and motor vehicle theft stand out most, at about 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Los Angeles 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 East Los Angeles
The middle half of East Los Angeles residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 96 and 187; the typical (median) resident's is 131. The citywide figure (159) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10031.7%
- 100–20050.5%
- 200–40012.6%
- 400+5.3%
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 9.3% 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.
East Los Angeles against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
62 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Los Angeles; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Los Angeles has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Monterey Park (3 mi), is 28% below East Los Angeles's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Los Angeles
What are the most common crimes in East Los Angeles?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 762 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 564 a year) and burglary (about 392 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 3.3 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. East Los Angeles's figures add up its 73 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Los Angeles's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 65.0% 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: 109,288. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Los Angeles, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/east-los-angeles
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Monterey Park3 mi115
- Maywood3 mi100
- Montebello3 mi143
- Bell4 mi71
- Alhambra4 mi118
- South San Gabriel4 mi57
- Huntington Park4 mi178
- Bell Gardens4 mi89