Crime in La Puente, California
Major crime in La Puente is 8% below the U.S. rate per resident: 26% higher for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.2% 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, burglary and robbery stand out most, at about 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in La Puente 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 La Puente
The middle half of La Puente residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 126; the typical (median) resident's is 57. The citywide figure (92) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5030.1%
- 50–10038.9%
- 100–20026.7%
- 200–4001.3%
- 400+3.0%
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 9.2% 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.
La Puente against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
371 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than La Puente; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
La Puente has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Valinda (1 mi), is 25% below La Puente's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in La Puente
What are the most common crimes in La Puente?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 107 a year), burglary (about 90 a year) and other larceny (about 89 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 1.6 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. La Puente's figures add up its 26 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- La Puente's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 16.2% 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: 35,902. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in La Puente, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/la-puente
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Valinda1 mi69
- West Puente Valley2 mi92
- Hacienda Heights3 mi101
- West Covina3 mi115
- South San Jose Hills3 mi85
- Baldwin Park4 mi95
- El Monte5 mi152
- Rowland Heights5 mi157