The Plaza, Long Beach, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
The Plaza is a neighborhood of 23,300 residents in Long Beach, about 6 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in The Plaza?
Property crime is high in The Plaza: a C+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 78% 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 C. Long Beach as a whole grades F for property crime.
C+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 515 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
22% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than The Plaza as a whole, and 78% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Plaza scores 515.
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 The Plaza, Long Beach, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in The Plaza 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 The Plaza
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.
Burglaries run high. The Plaza has burglaries at more than double the US rate: 6.2 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
How The Plaza compares within Long Beach
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 84% of residents in The Plaza; 14% live in areas graded A or B and 2% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across The Plaza run from B to D+.
14%84%
A or B 14%C 84%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
The Plaza has less property crime than 17 of the 22 neighborhoods in Long Beach. It covers much of the Plaza, Lakewood Village, and City College Area areas and 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 The Plaza
CrimeGrade™ estimates The Plaza has about 24 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 43% less 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 The Plaza, about 44% of the total, followed by burglary 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.
Where and when property crime happens in Long Beach
The Long Beach Police Department polices The Plaza; 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 The Plaza and nearby neighborhoods
The Plaza has less property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from The Plaza. 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, The Plaza has more property crime than 67% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set The Plaza apart: it has 2.7% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 12 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. 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.2.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 90% 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 The Plaza: C- (30 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 87% 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. 86% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (17 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 80% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft.12 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 85% 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 The Plaza
Property crime costs The Plaza about $4.4 million a year, or $188 per resident and about $530 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. The Plaza is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
