Night-time safety · Los Angeles · data through August 2026

Is Los Angeles safe at night?

48% of Los Angeles's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 18% of them fall between midnight and 6am. That share swings from 38% to 58% depending on which neighborhood you are in — which is the whole point: the question worth asking is not whether Los Angeles is safe after dark, but where and by which route.

These figures describe when reported incidents happen, not how dangerous a street is. Somewhere with a night-time crowd reports more after dark because more people are there — that is a fact about footfall as much as about risk, and it is why the tables below show the count and the share side by side.

Most reported reported incidents after dark

Neighborhood	6pm–6am	Share	Index
1 Downtown Los Angeles	5,352	48%	12/100
2 Westlake South	5,036	44%	12/100
3 MacArthur Park	4,358	42%	13/100
4 Westlake North	4,330	43%	14/100
5 Central Hollywood	3,858	56%	19/100
6 Hollywood Hills West	3,664	56%	20/100
7 Wilshire Center Koreatown	3,398	54%	20/100
8 Arts District Little Tokyo	3,167	49%	19/100
9 Hollywood Studio District	2,431	56%	27/100
10 Rampart Village	2,367	48%	24/100
11 Pico Union	2,112	50%	27/100
12 East Hollywood	2,004	53%	29/100
13 Greater Wilshire	1,875	50%	30/100
14 Historic Cultural North	1,825	41%	26/100
15 Empowerment Congress Southeast	1,689	47%	28/100
16 NoHo	1,620	42%	29/100
17 Voices	1,570	47%	30/100
18 South Central	1,558	50%	34/100
19 Zapata King	1,491	50%	33/100
20 CANNDU	1,441	47%	33/100
21 Los Feliz	1,429	41%	34/100
22 Hollywood United	1,380	52%	38/100
23 Central San Pedro	1,354	51%	36/100
24 Empowerment Congress North	1,324	47%	35/100
25 Mid City West	1,313	50%	42/100

Changes most after dark

Ranked by the share of reported incidents that fall between 6pm and 6am, against a Los Angeles median of 48%. A high share is not a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night sits near the top — so the count is shown beside it.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents	Index
Echo Park	58%	1,826	49/100
Hollywood Hills West	56%	6,500	20/100
Central Hollywood	56%	6,906	19/100
Hollywood Studio District	56%	4,362	27/100
Wilshire Center Koreatown	54%	6,329	20/100
Sun Valley	54%	992	61/100
East Hollywood	53%	3,766	29/100
Silver Lake	53%	828	69/100
Hollywood United	52%	2,634	38/100
Bel Air - Beverly Crest	52%	144	92/100
Arleta	52%	907	64/100
North Hills East	51%	2,481	41/100

Least night-weighted

Where what gets reported is most concentrated in daylight hours.

Neighborhood	Night share	Incidents
West Hills	38%	934
Northwest San Pedro	39%	890
Harbor Gateway South	40%	489
Historic Cultural North	41%	4,450
Westwood	41%	1,017
Los Feliz	41%	3,457
MacArthur Park	42%	10,394
Eagle Rock	42%	830

Common questions

Is Los Angeles safe to walk at night?

48% of Los Angeles's reported incidents happen between 6pm and 6am, and 18% fall in the small hours between midnight and 6am. That is a description of when incidents are reported, not a verdict on the city: the figure varies far more between neighborhoods than it does between cities, from 38% to 58% here. The useful question is which neighborhood and which route, not whether a whole city is safe.

Which neighborhood in Los Angeles has the most reported crime at night?

Downtown Los Angeles, with roughly 5,352 reported incidents between 6pm and 6am — 48% of its total. Somewhere busy usually tops this list because more people are out, so read it alongside the daytime picture on its own page rather than on its own.

Which neighborhood changes most after dark?

Echo Park is the most night-concentrated in Los Angeles: 58% of what is reported there happens between 6pm and 6am, against a Los Angeles median of 48%. A high share does not mean a high total — a quiet neighborhood whose few incidents mostly happen at night will rank high here — which is why the table shows the count beside it.

How does SafeRoute use this at night?

The app scores each walking route against the same LAPD data, and can weight it toward the time you are actually walking rather than a flat all-day average. It also shows how much of each route runs on lit streets, and lets you share a walk and check in on arrival.

Methodology

Every incident reported to the LAPD carries an occurrence time, which is bucketed into daytime (6am–6pm), evening (6pm–midnight) and the small hours (midnight–6am), split weekday against weekend, and weighted by severity so violence counts for more than shoplifting. A neighborhood's night share is the weighted proportion falling between 6pm and 6am; its night count is that share applied to its total. The city-wide chart weights each neighborhood by its own volume, so a busy centre is not averaged against a quiet suburb as though they were the same size.

Each incident reported to the LAPD (via LA Open Data) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the City of LA's 99 Neighborhood Councils; neighboring cities with their own police (Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Culver City and others) are outside LAPD's data and are not scored. Where a council spans large parkland, the map centers on its populated core rather than its geometric middle. Time-of-day charts use LAPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Locations are published to the nearest hundred block for privacy. Pages regenerate as new data is published.