Los Altos is a neighborhood of 14,500 residents in Long Beach, about 5 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Los Altos in Long Beach safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Los Altos has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 72% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against C-. Long Beach as a whole grades D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Los Altos run from B+ to C+, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 671 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Los Altos as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Los Altos scores 671.
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 Los Altos, Long Beach, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Los Altos 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 in Los Altos
Burglaries run high for a B-graded neighborhood. Los Altos has 9.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 2.5.
One weak spot: robbery. It grades B in Los Altos, worse than in the neighborhoods where 77% of Americans live, against A- for violent crime as a whole.
How Los Altos compares within Long Beach
Most of Los Altos grades well: 87% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Los Altos run from B+ to C+; every part of Los Altos has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
87%13%
A or B 87%C 13%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Los Altos has less crime than 15 of the 22 neighborhoods in Long Beach. It covers much of the Los Altos area.
Is crime going up in Long Beach?
Reported crime in Long Beach as a whole has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 29% and property crime up 39%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.2 to 6.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 34 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 13%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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
Violent, Long Beach
Violent, US
Property, Long Beach
Property, US
2016
+18%
+4%
+23%
+15%
2017
+29%
+4%
+10%
+12%
2018
+37%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-3%
+4%
+11%
-8%
2021
+10%
+6%
+15%
-10%
2022
+6%
+5%
+9%
-6%
2023
+21%
+2%
+24%
-7%
2024
+29%
-4%
+39%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Los Altos
CrimeGrade™ estimates Los Altos has about 46 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 25% more than the US as a whole and 21% less than Long Beach as a whole.
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.
The largest share of crime reported in Los Altos is theft, about 41% of the total. It also makes up 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.
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 Long Beach
The Long Beach Police Department polices Los Altos; 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. Thefts from cars happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 57% of them, against 18% 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)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (41%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (38%)
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 Los Altos compares with nearby neighborhoods
Los Altos has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
One thing sets Los Altos apart: it has 1.3% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. 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.1.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 97% 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 and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Los Altos: C (32 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% 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 and assault. 58% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (31 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 55% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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.20% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 80% 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 crime costs Los Altos
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Los Altos about $1,271 a year per household, 5% 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 $14 million a year, or $961 per resident.
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 Los Altos 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 Los Altos, Long Beach, CA average a SchoolGrade of A+: 57% of students test proficient, against 50% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Los Altos on SchoolGrade
