Old Town, Torrance, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Old Town is a neighborhood of 12,000 residents in Torrance, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Old Town?
Old Town earns an A- for violent crime, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 61% of Americans live. Assaults make up 76% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Torrance as a whole grades A for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 807 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
39% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Old Town as a whole, and 61% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Old Town scores 807.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Old Town, Torrance, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Old Town in Torrance, 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 about violent crime in Old Town
Robbery is the exception. Old Town grades A- for violent crime, but robbery grades B-, worse than in the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live.
How Old Town compares within Torrance
Every part of Old Town where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Old Town run from A to B+.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Old Town has less violent crime than 1 of the 7 neighborhoods in Torrance. It covers much of the Harbor Gateway and Old Town areas and the South East Torrance area.
Is violent crime going up in Torrance?
Reported violent crime in Torrance as a whole has risen 56% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.0 to 3.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime rose 16%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
TorranceUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Torrance. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Torrance
Violent, US
2016
-10%
+4%
2017
-6%
+4%
2018
-6%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
2021
+15%
+6%
2022
+34%
+5%
2023
+34%
+2%
2024
+56%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Old Town
CrimeGrade™ estimates Old Town has about 16 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 20% more than the US as a whole and more than double the rate for Torrance as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Old Town, about 76% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Torrance
The Torrance Police Department polices Old Town; these figures cover Torrance as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Torrance as a whole, 33% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 63% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (63%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (33%)
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.
Violent crime in Old Town and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Old Town, 6 have less violent crime. Palos Verdes Peninsula and West Torrance have the least.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Old Town apart: it has 177 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 1.3 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.177 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.3 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher 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 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.3% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 79% 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 violent crime costs Old Town
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Old Town about $17 million a year, or $1,394 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $4.2 million, or $353 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Old Town is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse 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.
