Downtown Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Downtown Long Beach is a neighborhood of 51,200 residents in Long Beach, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Downtown Long Beach?
Property crime is high in Downtown Long Beach: an F, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 94% of Americans live. Theft makes up 44% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C+, and vehicle theft grades F. Long Beach as a whole grades F for property crime.
F
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
6% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Downtown Long Beach as a whole, and 94% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Downtown Long Beach scores 0.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Downtown Long Beach, Long Beach, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Downtown Long Beach in Long Beach, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Downtown Long Beach
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Long Beach as a whole, 92% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
Burglary at about triple the US rate. Downtown Long Beach has 6.7 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
How Downtown Long Beach compares within Long Beach
High property crime is widespread across Downtown Long Beach: 94% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Downtown Long Beach run from C+ to F.
94%
C 6%D or F 94%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Downtown Long Beach has less property crime than 9 of the 22 neighborhoods in Long Beach. It covers much of the East Side, Downtown Long Beach, and Belmont Heights areas.
Is property crime going up in Long Beach?
Reported property crime in Long Beach as a whole has risen 39% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 25 to 34 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 13%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Long BeachUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Long Beach. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Long Beach
Property, US
2016
+23%
+15%
2017
+10%
+12%
2018
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+11%
-8%
2021
+15%
-10%
2022
+9%
-6%
2023
+24%
-7%
2024
+39%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Downtown Long Beach
CrimeGrade™ estimates Downtown Long Beach has about 58 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 39% more than Long Beach as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Downtown Long Beach, about 44% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Long Beach
The Long Beach Police Department polices Downtown Long Beach; these figures cover Long Beach as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Long Beach as a whole, 38% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (40%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (92%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (57%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Downtown Long Beach and nearby neighborhoods
Downtown Long Beach has less property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Downtown Long Beach. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Downtown Long Beach has more property crime than 76% of them.
Walkability, density and jobs in Downtown Long Beach
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Downtown Long Beach apart: it has a Walk Grade of A (83 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 97% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 86% of residents here live in walkable areas.A (83 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 86% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.97% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 84% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.66 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 79% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.14.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Downtown Long Beach
Property crime costs Downtown Long Beach about $25 million a year, or $479 per resident and about $1,003 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
