Vernon is a city of 331 in Los Angeles County, about 5 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles · Updated November 2026
Is Vernon, CA safe?
Crime in Vernon is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 84% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Vernon. Violent crime grades B and property crime D-.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 436 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Vernon as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Vernon scores 436.
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 Vernon, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Vernon, 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 Vernon
Burglary stands out among C-graded cities. For the typical resident of a C-graded US city, the figure is 2.5 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Vernon has 207.5.
Car thefts and robberies both run high. In Vernon, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 388.7 car thefts and 85.9 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 0.62 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Vernon
CrimeGrade™ estimates Vernon has about 2,461 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for 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 Vernon, about 42% 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 Vernon
Vernon has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Vernon, 0% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 72% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (81%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (72%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (35%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (72%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (47%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Vernon compares with nearby cities
Vernon has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest cities; only Commerce has less.
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Vernon about $33,181 a year per household, more than triple 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 $36 million a year, or $108,385 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$3.1 million
$9,389
Rape
$210,000
$635
Robbery
$890,000
$2,678
Assault
$1.2 million
$3,641
Burglary
$620,000
$1,865
Theft
$1.7 million
$5,262
Vehicle theft
$2.0 million
$5,966
Arson
$180,000
$557
Vandalism
$1.2 million
$3,499
Total
$11 million
$33,492
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 Vernon 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 Vernon, CA average a SchoolGrade of C-: 30% of students test proficient, against 20% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Vernon on SchoolGrade
