Los Angeles Fraud

Los Angeles · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Los Angeles police open data recorded 3,267 fraud incidents, 1.5% of all 219,415 incidents reported in the city that year and up 49.0% from 2024. That is about 84.2 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 2,422 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Los Angeles by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)2,422——
20253,26784.2up 49.0%
20242,19256.5up 110.0%
20231,04426.9up 1.1%
20221,03326.6up 29.0%
202180120.7down 1.8%
202081621.0down 48.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 35,621 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Pacific 291 incidents
  2. N Hollywood 257 incidents
  3. West LA 218 incidents
  4. Van Nuys 217 incidents
  5. Mission 199 incidents
  6. West Valley 194 incidents
  7. Devonshire 184 incidents
  8. Hollywood 178 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Los Angeles in 2025?

3,267, according to Los Angeles Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Los Angeles?

Reported fraud was up 49.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 216.3% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

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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