Los Angeles crime statistics vary depending on the geography, reporting standard, and offense label being counted. The figures below come from the City of Los Angeles Open Data Portal and count LAPD records by the year in Date Rptd. They describe records in the city, not population-adjusted rates and not all crime in Los Angeles County.
Contents
- Annual LAPD-recorded records
- Vehicles and burglary in 2024
- Theft, retail, and fraud in 2024
- Assault, robbery, and public safety in 2024
- Property-crime categories in 2023
- Person and public-order categories in 2023
- How to read these statistics
Annual LAPD-recorded records
The annual query of the Crime Data from 2020 to 2024 Socrata API counts records reported in the City of Los Angeles. It shows the following year-specific totals:
| Date Rptd year | LAPD crime records |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 192,708 |
| 2021 | 208,285 |
| 2022 | 235,067 |
| 2023 | 234,636 |
The portal contains 192,708 records for 2020, 208,285 for 2021, 235,067 for 2022, and 234,636 for 2023. These are counts of records in the portal rather than a rate per resident. The dataset notes also document a March 7, 2024 LAPD records-management and NIBRS transition, so the annual counts should be treated as reported-record totals within the dataset.
The annual figures answer a narrow question: how many records in this portal have each year extracted from Date Rptd. They do not answer how many crimes occurred in each calendar year in the wider region. The measure is therefore useful for describing the portal’s volume and for locating year-specific records, but it does not by itself describe risk for a resident, visitor, neighborhood, or individual household.
The 2020–2023 sequence also should not be read as a population-adjusted trend. No population denominator is supplied here, and the count does not distinguish reported records by neighborhood, time of day, or circumstance. A larger or smaller record count can reflect the records included in the portal and its reporting classifications; the figures alone do not identify the cause of a year-to-year change.
Vehicles and burglary in 2024
The 2024 offense-description query lists vehicle-stolen reports as the most numerous listed offense label, with 21,820 records. Other vehicle-related and burglary labels included 9,728 burglary-from-vehicle records and 7,816 theft-from-motor-vehicle records at $950 or under.
The same 2024 query counted 5,727 theft-from-motor-vehicle records over $950 and 4,746 burglary records. Smaller listed categories included 1,068 reports of other stolen motorized vehicles, including scooters and bikes; 1,004 stolen-bike reports; and 588 attempted vehicle-stolen reports.
These labels separate thefts from vehicles by the dataset’s dollar threshold and distinguish completed from attempted vehicle-stolen reports. They should not be added together as a single vehicle-crime total: categories may describe different reporting classifications, and the query returns offense-description labels rather than mutually exclusive analytical groupings.
Theft, retail, and fraud in 2024
Retail and theft labels made up several of the larger listed 2024 categories. Petty shoplifting at $950 or under accounted for 9,352 records, while plain petty theft at $950 or under accounted for 9,237. Identity-theft reports totaled 8,284, and grand theft over $950—excluding guns, fowl, livestock, and produce—totaled 6,414.
The 2024 offense query also listed 1,401 grand-theft shoplifting records over $950. Pickpocket reports totaled 1,313, grand embezzlement over $950 totaled 730, and bunco grand-theft reports totaled 566. Theft-from-person reports totaled 300.
| 2024 offense-description label | Records |
|---|---|
| Petty shoplifting, $950 or under | 9,352 |
| Plain petty theft, $950 or under | 9,237 |
| Identity theft | 8,284 |
| Grand theft over $950, specified exclusions | 6,414 |
| Grand-theft shoplifting over $950 | 1,401 |
| Pickpocket | 1,313 |
| Grand embezzlement over $950 | 730 |
| Bunco grand theft | 566 |
| Theft from person | 300 |
The dollar amounts here are part of the offense labels used by the portal. They are not estimates of the value lost, and the figures do not establish how many individual people or businesses were affected.
Assault, robbery, and public-safety offenses in 2024
Among the listed 2024 person and public-safety labels, simple-assault battery reports totaled 5,510. Aggravated-assault reports involving a deadly weapon totaled 3,745, while intimate-partner simple-assault reports totaled 3,136. Robbery reports totaled 2,525.
Other 2024 labels included 2,432 misdemeanor-vandalism records at $399 or under, 1,486 lewd-letter or lewd-telephone-call reports, and 1,385 criminal-threat reports without a weapon displayed. Brandished-weapon reports totaled 996. Intimate-partner aggravated-assault reports totaled 824, and restraining-order violation reports totaled 800. Forcible-rape reports totaled 269.
These are separate offense-description counts from the portal query. In particular, intimate-partner categories are shown separately from broader assault labels, so the counts should not be interpreted as a complete measure of all assault or domestic-violence records.
The same caution applies to labels that appear related but are not identical. Simple assault, aggravated assault involving a deadly weapon, brandished weapons, criminal threats, robbery, and intimate-partner assault are presented as separate descriptions. The listed counts are not a deduplicated person count, and the available figures do not establish whether one underlying event could produce more than one record or label.
Property-crime categories in 2023
The 2023 offense-description query provides a different year-specific view. Vehicle-stolen reports totaled 24,564 records, identity-theft reports totaled 14,695, and burglary reports totaled 14,340. Burglary-from-vehicle reports totaled 13,552.
The 2023 list also included 13,136 felony-vandalism records at $400 or over, including all church vandalism. Plain petty-theft reports at $950 or under totaled 11,456, while petty shoplifting at $950 or under totaled 9,856. Grand theft from a motor vehicle over $950 totaled 9,043, grand theft over $950 with the specified exclusions totaled 8,760, and petty theft from a motor vehicle at $950 or under totaled 8,008.
The labels and thresholds matter. For example, burglary-from-vehicle is listed separately from burglary, and the two motor-vehicle theft categories use different dollar thresholds. These counts describe portal classifications for 2023 rather than a single property-crime rate.
Person and public-order categories in 2023
The 2023 query counted 18,891 simple-assault battery records and 12,718 aggravated-assault records involving a deadly weapon. Intimate-partner simple-assault reports totaled 10,960, and robbery reports totaled 7,624.
Criminal threats without a weapon displayed totaled 4,723 records. Misdemeanor vandalism at $399 or under totaled 4,631, and trespassing reports totaled 4,466. Brandished-weapon reports totaled 3,604, intimate-partner aggravated-assault reports totaled 3,015, and restraining-order violation reports totaled 2,758.
Because these categories use the portal’s offense descriptions, they should be read as distinct year-specific labels. A broad label and a narrower label can represent different classification levels, and the dataset notes state that categories may include attempted or misdemeanor/felony subcategories separately.
How to read these statistics
The source is the City of Los Angeles Open Data Portal’s Crime Data from 2020 to 2024, with the annual and offense-label counts linked above. The portal data covers the City of Los Angeles and LAPD records; it does not represent every crime in Los Angeles County.
The 2023 and 2024 offense-label counts are not a clean trend series. LAPD and the Mayor’s 2024 year-end release note that 2024 Person and Property Crime totals combine SRS and NIBRS standards and are not directly comparable with earlier reporting. The LAPD 2024 year-end release provides that reporting context.
Accordingly, the 2024 figures above are 2024 portal records and the 2023 figures are 2023 portal records, not a directly comparable before-and-after estimate. They are also not forecasts, population-adjusted rates, clearance rates, or measures of unreported crime. For a neighborhood or travel decision, the relevant geography and the exact reporting period should be checked before interpreting any one category.
The safest comparison is between records with the same year, geography, query method, and offense label. Even then, the result remains a count of portal records. The supplied 2023 and 2024 queries are limited to the listed offense-description results, while the annual query groups all portal records by reporting year. Keeping those query scopes separate prevents a category count from being mistaken for an annual citywide total.