Los Angeles Auto theft

Los Angeles · Auto theft · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Los Angeles police open data recorded 2,303 auto theft incidents, 1.0% of all 219,415 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 59.4 per 100,000 residents, compared with 486 per 100,000 across the 56 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,093 auto theft incidents have been published.

Auto theft in Los Angeles by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,093——
20252,30359.4—
202422,117570down 9.7%
202324,505632down 1.0%
202224,761638up 4.5%
202123,695611up 14.1%
202020,774536up 35.3%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 275,745 auto theft incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most auto theft (2025)

  1. Southwest 281 incidents
  2. Newton 201 incidents
  3. 77th Street 200 incidents
  4. Southeast 148 incidents
  5. Central 134 incidents
  6. Pacific 124 incidents
  7. Foothill 122 incidents
  8. Northeast 121 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many auto theft incidents were reported in Los Angeles in 2025?

2,303, according to Los Angeles Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Where does this data come from?

Source: Los Angeles Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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