The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Montebello, CA
Montebello is a city of 60,700 in Los Angeles County, about 8 miles east of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Montebello, CA safe?
Crime in Montebello is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 80% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Montebello. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B+ against D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Montebello run from B+ to F, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 542 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
20% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Montebello as a whole, and 80% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Montebello scores 542.
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 Montebello, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Montebello, 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 Montebello
Car thefts run high for a B-graded city. Montebello has 8.0 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US city, the figure is 2.9.
Robbery at about double the US rate. Montebello has 1.3 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Montebello
Areas graded C are home to 46% of residents in Montebello; 22% live in areas graded A or B and 32% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Montebello run from B+ to F; every part of Montebello has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
22%46%32%
A or B 22%C 46%D or F 32%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Montebello, the northeast side has the least crime and the west side the most.
Is crime going up in Montebello?
Reported violent crime in Montebello has risen 69% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.9 to 4.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
MontebelloUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Montebello. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Montebello
Violent, US
2016
+18%
+4%
2017
+12%
+4%
2018
+21%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+50%
+4%
2021
+80%
+6%
2022
+89%
+5%
2023
+83%
+2%
2024
+69%
-4%
Crime rates and types in Montebello
CrimeGrade™ estimates Montebello has about 40 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 7% more than 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.
Theft is the most common crime in Montebello, about 35% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does far 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.
How Montebello compares with nearby cities
Montebello has less crime than 8 of its 9 nearest cities; only Monterey Park has less.
Night lighting, density and walkability in Montebello
Two things set Montebello apart: it has 73% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and a Walk Grade of C (36 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more robbery and car theft, and they run high here.
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
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.73% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 91% 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 (36 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 86% 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.3.3% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 83% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 80% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.11.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 59% 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 Montebello
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Montebello about $1,640 a year per household, 36% 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 $96 million a year, or $1,574 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$5.2 million
$85
Rape
$950,000
$16
Robbery
$2.5 million
$41
Assault
$7.7 million
$126
Burglary
$1.6 million
$27
Theft
$4.4 million
$72
Vehicle theft
$7.4 million
$122
Arson
$280,000
$5
Vandalism
$2.1 million
$35
Total
$32 million
$529
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 Montebello 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 Montebello, CA average a SchoolGrade of C: 33% of students test proficient, against 29% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Montebello on SchoolGrade
