Silver Lake is a neighborhood of 39,400 residents in Los Angeles, about 3 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Silver Lake in Los Angeles safe?
Crime in Silver Lake 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 Silver Lake. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, B+ against F. Los Angeles as a whole grades D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Silver Lake run from A- to F, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 375 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Silver Lake as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Silver Lake scores 375.
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 Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Silver Lake in Los Angeles, 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 Silver Lake
Vehicle theft at more than double the US rate. Silver Lake has 6.4 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Silver Lake compares within Los Angeles
Safety changes a lot from one part of Silver Lake to the next: 25% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 59% live in areas graded D or F. Grades across Silver Lake run from A- to F; every part of Silver Lake has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 25%C 16%D or F 59%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Silver Lake has less crime than 23 of the 51 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It covers much of the Koreatown, Mid Wilshire, and Hollywood areas and the Eagle Rock, El Sereno, and Echo Park areas.
Crime rates and types in Silver Lake
CrimeGrade™ estimates Silver Lake has about 49 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 31% more than the US as a whole and 23% less than Los Angeles 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 Silver Lake is theft, about 48% 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.
How Silver Lake compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Silver Lake, 7 have less crime. Atwater Village and Los Feliz have the least.
Parking lots, nightlife and walkability in Silver Lake
Two things set Silver Lake apart: it has 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 1.1 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places with little parking-lot space tend to report less theft, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 82% 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.B (57 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 69% 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.13.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 77% 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 Silver Lake
Crime costs Silver Lake about $1,185 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about the same as 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 $55 million a year, or $1,384 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 Silver Lake 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
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 Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA average a SchoolGrade of B+: 44% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Silver Lake on SchoolGrade
