Crime in South Gate, California
Major crime in South Gate is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 42% higher for persons crimes and 2.2 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Robbery stands out most, at 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Gate 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 South Gate
The middle half of South Gate residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 112 and 219; the typical (median) resident's is 138. The citywide figure (204) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10013.3%
- 100–20057.8%
- 200–40024.8%
- 400+4.1%
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 9.5% 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.
South Gate against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
29 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Gate; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Gate 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, Lynwood (2 mi), is 23% below South Gate's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Gate
What are the most common crimes in South Gate?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 728 a year), other larceny (about 686 a year) and shoplifting (about 550 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 4.2 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. South Gate's figures add up its 55 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Gate has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 86.1% 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: 89,423. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Gate, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/south-gate
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lynwood2 mi158
- Cudahy2 mi98
- Walnut Park2 mi146
- Bell2 mi71
- Huntington Park2 mi178
- Willowbrook3 mi160
- Bell Gardens3 mi89
- Florence-Graham3 mi226