Los Altos, Long Beach, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Los Altos is a neighborhood of 14,500 residents in Long Beach, about 5 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Los Altos?
Los Altos grades C- for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Theft makes up 49% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades F, and vehicle theft grades D. Long Beach as a whole grades F for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 371 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Los Altos as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Los Altos scores 371.
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 Los Altos, Long Beach, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Los Altos 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 Los Altos
Burglaries run high for a neighborhood with a C for property crime. Los Altos has 9.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded C for property crime, the figure is 3.6.
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.
How Los Altos compares within Long Beach
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 63% of residents in Los Altos; 0% live in areas graded A or B and 37% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Los Altos run from C+ to F.
63%37%
C 63%D or F 37%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Los Altos has less property crime than 15 of the 22 neighborhoods in Long Beach. It covers much of the Los Altos area.
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 Los Altos
CrimeGrade™ estimates Los Altos has about 38 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 61% more than the US as a whole and close to 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 Los Altos, about 49% of the total, followed by burglary 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 Los Altos; 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 Los Altos and nearby neighborhoods
Los Altos has less property crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Los Altos. 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, Los Altos has more property crime than 70% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets Los Altos apart: it has 1.3% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.1.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Los Altos: C (32 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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. 58% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (31 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 55% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.20% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 80% 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 Los Altos
Property crime costs Los Altos about $4.3 million a year, or $299 per resident and about $826 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.
