The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Cudahy, CA
Cudahy is a city of 22,100 in Los Angeles County, about 7 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Cudahy, CA safe?
Cudahy is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 90% of Americans live. Violent crime grades D+ and property crime D-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Cudahy run from C- to F, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 205 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Cudahy as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Cudahy scores 205.
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 Cudahy, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Cudahy, 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 Cudahy
Robberies run high. Cudahy has robberies at about triple the US rate: 1.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Cudahy
High crime is widespread across Cudahy: 89% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Cudahy run from C- to F; every part of Cudahy has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
11%89%
C 11%D or F 89%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Cudahy, the east side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Is crime going up in Cudahy?
Reported crime in Cudahy has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 70% and property crime up 55%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.8 to 6.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 9.1 to 14 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime rose 14% and property crime fell 14%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
CudahyUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Cudahy. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Cudahy
Violent, US
Property, Cudahy
Property, US
2016
-17%
+4%
+12%
+15%
2017
-18%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
+0%
+0%
-14%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+5%
+4%
+41%
-8%
2021
+76%
+6%
+56%
-10%
2022
+88%
+5%
+44%
-6%
2023
+50%
+2%
+80%
-7%
2024
+70%
-4%
+55%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Cudahy
CrimeGrade™ estimates Cudahy has about 33 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 10% less than the US as a whole and 16% 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.
Assault is the most common crime in Cudahy, about 27% of everything reported.
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.
The Cudahy Police Department reports to the FBI in a format that leaves out vandalism, so CrimeGrade™ makes its own vandalism estimate.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Cudahy compares with nearby cities
Cudahy has more crime than 5 of its 9 nearest cities. Downey and Commerce have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Cudahy apart: it has 97% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 4.4 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places where many residents live in dense blocks tend to report more robbery and car theft, and they run high here.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.97% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 97% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.4.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 94% 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.C+ (40 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 88% of US city residents
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 93% of US city residents
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.0.6 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 89% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Cudahy 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 Cudahy
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Cudahy about $2,524 a year per household, about double 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 $61 million a year, or $2,756 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$4.9 million
$222
Rape
$520,000
$23
Robbery
$1.2 million
$55
Assault
$3.6 million
$164
Burglary
$460,000
$21
Theft
$960,000
$43
Vehicle theft
$1.9 million
$84
Arson
$78,000
$4
Vandalism
$910,000
$41
Total
$15 million
$656
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 Cudahy 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. Cudahy 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.
Schools in Cudahy, CA average a SchoolGrade of C-: 32% of students test proficient, against 21% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Cudahy on SchoolGrade
