Palms, Los Angeles, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Palms is a neighborhood of 44,200 residents in Los Angeles, about 10 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Palms?
Property crime is high in Palms: an F, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 93% of Americans live. Theft makes up 65% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades F. Los Angeles as a whole grades F for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More property crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
7% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Palms as a whole, and 93% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Palms 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 Palms, Los Angeles, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Palms in Los Angeles, 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 Palms
Thefts run high. Palms has thefts at about double the US rate: 24.4 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
How Palms compares within Los Angeles
High property crime is widespread across Palms: 88% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 2% in areas graded A or B. Property crime grades across Palms run from B- to F.
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Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Palms has less property crime than 19 of the 51 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It covers much of the Pico-Robertson, Sawtelle, and West Los Angeles areas.
Property crime rates and types in Palms
CrimeGrade™ estimates Palms has about 38 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 58% more than the US as a whole and close to Los Angeles 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 Palms, about 65% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and vandalism.
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.
Property crime in Palms and nearby neighborhoods
Palms has more property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Century City and Jefferson have the least property crime nearby.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Palms apart: it has 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 93% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with little parking-lot space tend to report less theft, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 85% 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.93% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 78% 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. 62% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (68 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Palms: C (38 of 100).24 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 74% 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 Palms
Property crime costs Palms about $12 million a year, or $265 per resident and about $548 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
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.
