North Long Beach is a neighborhood of 79,100 residents in Long Beach, about 7 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is North Long Beach in Long Beach safe?
Crime in North Long Beach is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of F. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 92% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than North Long Beach. Violent crime grades D+ and property crime F. Long Beach as a whole grades D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within North Long Beach run from C to F, so check the map below.
F
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 62 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than North Long Beach as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. North Long Beach scores 62.
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 North Long Beach, Long Beach, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in North Long Beach 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 North Long Beach
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Long Beach as a whole, 92% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
Robbery at more than triple the US rate. North Long Beach has 2.4 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How North Long Beach compares within Long Beach
High crime is widespread across North Long Beach: 96% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across North Long Beach run from C to F; every part of North Long Beach has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
96%
C 4%D or F 96%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
North Long Beach has less crime than 6 of the 22 neighborhoods in Long Beach. It covers much of the North Long Beach area and the North West Long Beach and Los Cerritos areas.
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 North Long Beach
CrimeGrade™ estimates North Long Beach has about 52 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 40% more than the US as a whole and close to 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.
Theft is the most common crime in North Long Beach, about 26% 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.
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 North Long Beach; 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 North Long Beach compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to North Long Beach, 9 have less crime. City College Area and Lakewood Village have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from North Long Beach. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, North Long Beach has more crime than 75% of them.
Empty homes, transit and walkability in North Long Beach
Two things set North Long Beach apart: it has 2.7% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 5.4 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary, vandalism and arson 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.2.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 90% 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 North Long Beach: C (32 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 85% 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+ (45 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 60% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.5.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 75% 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 North Long Beach
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs North Long Beach about $2,567 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 $206 million a year, or $2,606 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 North Long Beach 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. North Long Beach 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 North Long Beach, Long Beach, CA average a SchoolGrade of D+: 29% of students test proficient, against 26% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in North Long Beach on SchoolGrade
