Los Angeles Homicide

Los Angeles · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Los Angeles police open data recorded 238 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 219,415 incidents reported in the city that year and down 17.9% from 2024. That is about 6.1 per 100,000 residents, compared with 8.8 per 100,000 across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 183 homicide incidents have been published.

Homicide in Los Angeles by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)183——
20252386.1down 17.9%
20242907.5down 19.4%
20233609.3down 13.9%
202241810.8up 1.0%
202141410.7up 13.7%
20203649.4up 41.6%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 5,002 homicide incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)

  1. Southeast 32 incidents
  2. 77th Street 31 incidents
  3. Central 30 incidents
  4. Newton 18 incidents
  5. Hollenbeck 16 incidents
  6. Southwest 11 incidents
  7. Rampart 11 incidents
  8. West LA 10 incidents

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

Questions

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

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

Is homicide going up or down in Los Angeles?

Reported homicide was down 17.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 43.1% compared with 2022 (falling 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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