Crime in West Athens, California
Major crime in West Athens is 2.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 5.5 times for persons crimes and 46% 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 stands out most, at 9.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Athens 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 West Athens
The middle half of West Athens residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 132 and 253; the typical (median) resident's is 239.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10013.9%
- 100–20018.5%
- 200–40067.6%
- 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 9.3% 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.
West Athens against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
89 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Athens; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Athens has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Westmont (1 mi), is 10% below West Athens's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Athens
What are the most common crimes in West Athens?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 104 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 62 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 40 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 9.1 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. West Athens's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Athens's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 8,207. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Athens, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/west-athens
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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