Westwood, Los Angeles, CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Westwood is a neighborhood of 56,700 residents in Los Angeles, about 12 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Westwood?
Westwood has less violent crime than most US neighborhoods: an A+, safer than the neighborhoods where 73% of Americans live. Assaults make up 86% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Los Angeles as a whole grades C for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 928 of 1,000Less violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
73% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Westwood as a whole, and 27% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Westwood scores 928.
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 Westwood, Los Angeles, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Westwood 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 about violent crime in Westwood
Aggravated assaults and simple assaults both run low. In Westwood, each runs at less than half the US rate: 1.0 aggravated assaults and 4.0 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 and 9.7 nationally.
How Westwood compares within Los Angeles
Every part of Westwood where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Westwood run from A+ to B+.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Westwood has less violent crime than 48 of the 51 neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It covers much of the Mid City West, Westwood, and Hollywood Hills areas and the Pico-Robertson, Sawtelle, and West Los Angeles areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Westwood
CrimeGrade™ estimates Westwood has about 5.8 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 57% less than the US as a whole and 72% less than Los Angeles as a whole.
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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 Westwood, about 86% 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.
Violent crime in Westwood and nearby neighborhoods
Westwood has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Century City and Bel Air have less.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Westwood apart: it has 161 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 53 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places with both tend to report more robbery than places with only one of them; here robbery sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.161 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Westwood: C (39 of 100).53 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 88% 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.C+ (47 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 61% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.87% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 72% 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 Westwood
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Westwood about $25 million a year, or $433 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $6.1 million, or $108 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.
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.
