Morningside Park is a neighborhood of 14,800 residents in Inglewood, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Morningside Park in Inglewood safe?
Crime in Morningside Park is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C-. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 88% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Morningside Park. Violent crime grades C- and property crime D. Inglewood as a whole grades D. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Morningside Park run from C+ to F, so check the map below.
C-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 319 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Morningside Park as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Morningside Park scores 319.
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 Morningside Park, Inglewood, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Morningside Park in Inglewood, 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 Morningside Park
Robberies run high for a C-graded neighborhood. Morningside Park has 2.9 robberies a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a C-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 1.3.
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Morningside Park has 10.4 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Morningside Park
High crime is widespread across Morningside Park: 66% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Morningside Park run from C+ to F; every part of Morningside Park has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
34%66%
C 34%D or F 66%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is crime going up in Inglewood?
Since 2019, reported property crime in Inglewood as a whole is up 66%, while violent crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.2 to 6.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 21 to 36 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 12%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
InglewoodUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Inglewood. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Inglewood
Violent, US
Property, Inglewood
Property, US
2016
+21%
+4%
+3%
+15%
2017
+15%
+4%
+17%
+12%
2018
+1%
+0%
+17%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+2%
+4%
+8%
-8%
2021
+8%
+6%
+25%
-10%
2022
+6%
+5%
+34%
-6%
2023
+23%
+2%
+74%
-7%
2024
+8%
-4%
+66%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Morningside Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Morningside Park has about 79 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 36% more than Inglewood 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.
Theft is the most common crime in Morningside Park, about 44% of everything reported, but assault 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.
How Morningside Park compares with nearby neighborhoods
Morningside Park has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Morningside Park. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Morningside Park has more crime than 58% of them.
Nightlife, tree cover and walkability in Morningside Park
Two things set Morningside Park apart: it has 1.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and tree cover over 4% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally. Places like that tend to report more assault and robbery, and they run high here.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.4% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 73% 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.C+ (42 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 58% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 71% 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 Morningside Park
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Morningside Park about $2,343 a year per household, 94% 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 $46 million a year, or $3,092 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 Morningside Park 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 Morningside Park, Inglewood, CA average a SchoolGrade of D-: 23% of students test proficient, against 20% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Morningside Park on SchoolGrade
