Los Angeles Sexual assault

Los Angeles · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Los Angeles police open data recorded 2,648 sexual assault incidents, 1.2% of all 219,415 incidents reported in the city that year and down 10.1% from 2024. That is about 68.3 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 2,181 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Los Angeles by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)2,181——
20252,64868.3down 10.1%
20242,94776.0up 15.3%
20232,55665.9down 3.1%
20222,63868.0up 3.1%
20212,55966.0up 2.2%
20202,50364.5down 16.4%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 45,961 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Central 244 incidents
  2. 77th Street 181 incidents
  3. Southwest 179 incidents
  4. Rampart 165 incidents
  5. Olympic 151 incidents
  6. Hollywood 151 incidents
  7. Mission 148 incidents
  8. Newton 121 incidents

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

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Los Angeles in 2025?

2,648, according to Los Angeles Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is sexual assault going up or down in Los Angeles?

Reported sexual assault was down 10.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 0.4% compared with 2022 (roughly flat 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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