Wrigley is a neighborhood of 34,600 residents in Long Beach, about 2 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Wrigley in Long Beach safe?
Crime in Wrigley is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of F. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 96% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Wrigley. Violent crime grades D and property crime F. Long Beach as a whole grades D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Wrigley run from C to F, so check the map below.
F
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
4% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Wrigley as a whole, and 96% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Wrigley scores 0.
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 Wrigley, Long Beach, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Wrigley 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 Wrigley
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. Wrigley has 2.4 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Wrigley compares within Long Beach
High crime is widespread across Wrigley: 83% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Wrigley run from C to F; every part of Wrigley has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
17%83%
C 17%D or F 83%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Wrigley has less crime than 0 of the 22 neighborhoods in Long Beach. It covers much of the Wrigley and West Side 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 Wrigley
CrimeGrade™ estimates Wrigley has about 62 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 66% 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Wrigley is assault, about 28% 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.
Where and when crime happens in Long Beach
The Long Beach Police Department polices Wrigley; 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 Wrigley compares with nearby neighborhoods
Wrigley has the most crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Wrigley apart: it has 0.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 89% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% 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 80% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.89% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 74% 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- (55 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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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
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 Wrigley
Crime costs Wrigley about $2,816 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, more than 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 $100 million a year, or $2,887 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 Wrigley 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 Wrigley, Long Beach, CA average a SchoolGrade of D+: 30% of students test proficient, against 29% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Wrigley on SchoolGrade
