Old Town, Torrance, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Old Town is a neighborhood of 12,000 residents in Torrance, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Old Town?
Old Town grades C- for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Theft makes up 53% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C-, and vehicle theft grades F. Torrance as a whole grades B- for property crime.
C-
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 363 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Old Town 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-. Old Town scores 363.
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 Old Town, Torrance, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Old Town in Torrance, 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 Old Town
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Old Town has 10.5 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Torrance as a whole, 49% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Old Town compares within Torrance
Property crime varies widely across Old Town: 28% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 55% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Old Town run from B- to F.
28%17%55%
A or B 28%C 17%D or F 55%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Old Town has less property crime than 1 of the 7 neighborhoods in Torrance. It covers much of the Harbor Gateway and Old Town areas and the South East Torrance area.
Is property crime going up in Torrance?
Reported property crime in Torrance as a whole has risen 37% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 20 to 27 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
TorranceUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Torrance. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Torrance
Property, US
2016
+10%
+15%
2017
+10%
+12%
2018
-6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+1%
-8%
2021
+16%
-10%
2022
+32%
-6%
2023
+33%
-7%
2024
+37%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Old Town
CrimeGrade™ estimates Old Town has about 53 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 80% more than Torrance 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 Old Town, about 53% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and burglary.
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 Torrance
The Torrance Police Department polices Old Town; these figures cover Torrance as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 48% of them, against 27% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (49%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (49%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (26%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Old Town and nearby neighborhoods
Old Town has more property crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Palos Verdes Peninsula and West Torrance have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Old Town. 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, Old Town is safer than 57% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Old Town apart: it has 30.6 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 177 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.30.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.177 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher 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.B- (55 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.7 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 79% 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 Old Town
Property crime costs Old Town about $5.1 million a year, or $430 per resident and about $958 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.
