The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Pomona, CA
Pomona is a city of 150,600 in Los Angeles County, about 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Pomona, CA safe?
Crime in Pomona is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 86% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Pomona. Violent crime grades C+ and property crime D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Pomona run from A- to F, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 396 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Pomona as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Pomona scores 396.
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 Pomona, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Pomona, 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 Pomona
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Pomona, 55% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Robberies run high. Pomona has robberies at about triple the US rate: 2.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Pomona
In Pomona, 18% of residents live in areas graded A or B, 43% in areas graded C and 39% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Pomona run from A- to F; every part of Pomona has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
18%43%39%
A or B 18%C 43%D or F 39%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Pomona, the southwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Pomona?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Pomona is up 11%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 6.2 to 7.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 28 to 27 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
PomonaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Pomona. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Pomona
Violent, US
Property, Pomona
Property, US
2016
-19%
+4%
+10%
+15%
2017
-10%
+4%
+5%
+12%
2018
-7%
+0%
+11%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-17%
+4%
+13%
-8%
2021
-3%
+6%
+21%
-10%
2022
+4%
+5%
+22%
-6%
2023
+6%
+2%
+3%
-7%
2024
+11%
-4%
-4%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Pomona
CrimeGrade™ estimates Pomona has about 51 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 37% more than the US as a whole and 28% more than 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 Pomona, about 32% 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.
Where and when crime happens in Pomona
Pomona has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Pomona, 25% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (54%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (55%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (29%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (36%)
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 Pomona compares with nearby cities
Pomona has the most crime of its 10 nearest cities.
Two things set Pomona apart: it has 64% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally, and 3.3% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places where many residents live in dense blocks 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.64% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 88% 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. 65% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (27 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 77% 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.0.8 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 83% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.7.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 75% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Pomona on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Pomona
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Pomona about $2,535 a year per household, about double the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $107 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $361 million a year, or $2,399 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$24 million
$156
Rape
$3.8 million
$25
Robbery
$9.8 million
$65
Assault
$27 million
$182
Burglary
$5.4 million
$36
Theft
$13 million
$85
Vehicle theft
$14 million
$91
Arson
$690,000
$5
Vandalism
$10 million
$67
Total
$107 million
$711
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 Pomona 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 Pomona, CA average a SchoolGrade of C: 34% of students test proficient, against 27% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Pomona on SchoolGrade
