Long Beach, CA Crime


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Long Beach, CA has a higher rate of both violent and property crime than the US average. Violent crime in Long Beach is 33.4, which is nearly 50% more than the US average of 22.7. Similarly, property crime in Long Beach is 41.2, which is 16% higher than the US average of 35.4. This indicates that Long Beach is a generally less safe area compared to other parts of the country when it comes to criminal activity.

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Long Beach violent crime is 33.4. (The US average is 22.7)
Long Beach property crime is 41.2. (The US average is 35.4)


NOTE: The city of Long Beach, California does not have FBI Crime Statistics. The closest similar sized city with FBI crime data is the city of Norwalk, California. The charts below are detailed crime statistics for the city of Norwalk, California. Click links below to see charts for each crime category.
 Violent Crimes  - Murder  Rape  Robbery  Assault
 Property Crimes  - Burglary  Larceny  Auto Theft
Signal Hill, CA Crime History
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Year Violent Murder Rape Robbery Assault Property Burglary Larceny Auto
2001399.710.531.6210.4147.38184.31788.35049.41346.5
2002465.1051.7299.7113.76986.41116.24671.41198.8
2003583.6029.7336.3217.660931137.54075.2880.3
2004525.59.758.4272.5184.96636.81255.44408.3973.1
2005529.3037.1278.6213.65413.71123.63342.9947.2
2006694.19.127.4301.4356.24676.2986.43114.4575.4
2007532.4026.6177.5328.34037.3709.82759.5567.9
2008529.999197.6314.44149.5772.42856.1520.9
2009479.118.154.2171.82353842867.82449.8524.3
2010364.3027.3154.8182.13897.6783.22504.3610.1
2011287.1026.9116.6143.54225.7888.22799.2538.3
20123848.926.8134214.34786.6776.93232.7776.9
2013017.8124.6142.34928.8845.23371.9711.7
2014350.58.817.5184140.24381.7552.13268.8560.9
2015497.68.651.5266171.66726.7875.25079.4772.2
2016590.9077.1248.4265.57330.6882.15480.9967.7
2017535.98.542.5289.2195.66370.77914431.41148.3
2018734.4085.4315.93335891.9913.74021.9956.4
2019817.308.6232.3576.45832.8946.34224662.4

   Crime in Nearby Cities
City Violent
per 100k
Property
per 100k
Pop. Miles Data
Year
Signal Hill, CA817.35,832.811,14602019
Long Beach, CA506.22,414.0476,47612019
Lakewood, CA277.02,303.278,33442019
Carson, CA482.92,179.591,04252019
Hawaiian Gardens, CA530.71,571.213,98762019
Bellflower, CA423.61,950.965,64762019
   Crime in Similar Size Cities
City Violent
per 100k
Property
per 100k
Pop. Miles Data
Year
Norwalk, CA411.21,495.2106,27882019
Downey, CA313.42,201.5107,59892019
Torrance, CA192.91,965.1147,148102019
Garden Grove, CA292.22,261.7176,230122019
Huntington Beach, CA191.22,053.1202,244122019
Inglewood, CA613.42,121.8110,811142019

   Visualize the relationship between violent and property crime in similar size cities.

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Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 4 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 6 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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