The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Hawaiian Gardens, CA
Hawaiian Gardens is a city of 13,800 in Los Angeles County, about 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Hawaiian Gardens, CA safe?
Hawaiian Gardens is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D+, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Violent crime grades C and property crime F. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Hawaiian Gardens run from C to D-, so check the map below.
D+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 300 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Hawaiian Gardens as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Hawaiian Gardens scores 300.
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 Hawaiian Gardens, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Hawaiian Gardens, 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 Hawaiian Gardens
Burglaries and robberies both run high. In Hawaiian Gardens, each runs at more than double the US rate: 6.1 burglaries and 1.5 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 0.62 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Hawaiian Gardens
High crime is widespread across Hawaiian Gardens: 73% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Hawaiian Gardens run from C to D-; every part of Hawaiian Gardens has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
27%73%
C 27%D or F 73%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Hawaiian Gardens, the northeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Hawaiian Gardens?
Reported crime in Hawaiian Gardens has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 34% and property crime up 29%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.4 to 7.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 16 to 21 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime rose 39%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Hawaiian GardensUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Hawaiian Gardens. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Hawaiian Gardens
Violent, US
Property, Hawaiian Gardens
Property, US
2016
-6%
+4%
+32%
+15%
2017
+11%
+4%
+41%
+12%
2018
+5%
+0%
+10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-32%
+4%
-12%
-8%
2021
+3%
+6%
+27%
-10%
2022
+8%
+5%
+49%
-6%
2023
-4%
+2%
+26%
-7%
2024
+34%
-4%
+29%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Hawaiian Gardens
CrimeGrade™ estimates Hawaiian Gardens has about 37 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and close to 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 Hawaiian Gardens, about 26% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Hawaiian Gardens 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 Hawaiian Gardens compares with nearby cities
Hawaiian Gardens has more crime than 9 of its 10 nearest cities. Los Alamitos and Cypress have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Hawaiian Gardens. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Hawaiian Gardens has more crime than 88% of them.
Density, parking lots and walkability in Hawaiian Gardens
Two things set Hawaiian Gardens apart: it has 95% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 0.3 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 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.95% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 96% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower 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+ (44 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 89% of US city residents
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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
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.18 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 89% 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.3.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 76% of US city residents
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 Hawaiian Gardens
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Hawaiian Gardens about $2,246 a year per household, 86% more than 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 $32 million a year, or $2,316 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.7 million
$126
Rape
$430,000
$31
Robbery
$630,000
$46
Assault
$2.7 million
$193
Burglary
$750,000
$54
Theft
$680,000
$50
Vehicle theft
$1.2 million
$86
Arson
$36,000
$3
Vandalism
$420,000
$30
Total
$8.5 million
$619
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 Hawaiian Gardens 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 Hawaiian Gardens, CA average a SchoolGrade of C+: 37% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Hawaiian Gardens on SchoolGrade
