The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Covina, CA
Covina is a city of 65,700 in Los Angeles County, about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Covina, CA safe?
Crime in Covina is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 74% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Covina. Violent crime grades B and property crime B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Covina run from A to D+, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 647 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
26% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Covina as a whole, and 74% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Covina scores 647.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Covina, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Covina, 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 in Covina
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Covina, 65% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Covina
Most of Covina grades well: 81% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 1% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Covina run from A to D+; every part of Covina has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
81%18%
A or B 81%C 18%D or F 1%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Covina, the southeast side has the least crime and the northwest side the most.
Is crime going up in Covina?
Reported violent crime in Covina peaked in 2021 and has fallen 15% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 37% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.7 to 3.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 16 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 22%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
CovinaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Covina. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Covina
Violent, US
Property, Covina
Property, US
2016
-6%
+4%
+6%
+15%
2017
-1%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
+9%
+0%
-7%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-17%
+4%
-13%
-8%
2021
+12%
+6%
-15%
-10%
2022
-8%
+5%
+12%
-6%
2023
-0%
+2%
-19%
-7%
2024
-5%
-4%
-37%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Covina
CrimeGrade™ estimates Covina has about 28 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 24% less than the US as a whole and 29% less than California.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 29% of crime reported in Covina. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Covina
Covina has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 53% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (65%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (46%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (53%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (26%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (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.
How Covina compares with nearby cities
Covina has less crime than 6 of its 10 nearest cities.
Night lighting, parking lots and walkability in Covina
Two things set Covina apart: it has 0.7 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 46% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with little parking-lot space tend to report less theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.7 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 87% of US city residents
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 and assault. 66% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (26 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 75% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.46% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 81% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Covina: D+ (24 of 100).6 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 74% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 69% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Covina on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 crime costs Covina
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Covina about $1,231 a year per household, about the same as the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $95 million a year, or $1,440 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$6.9 million
$105
Rape
$890,000
$14
Robbery
$2.0 million
$30
Assault
$7.1 million
$108
Burglary
$2.1 million
$31
Theft
$2.8 million
$42
Vehicle theft
$3.5 million
$53
Arson
$400,000
$6
Vandalism
$1.7 million
$26
Total
$27 million
$414
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Covina means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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.
Schools in Covina, CA average a SchoolGrade of B-: 36% of students test proficient, against 33% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Covina on SchoolGrade
