Los Angeles Theft from vehicle
Los Angeles · Theft from vehicle · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Los Angeles police open data recorded 24,333 theft from vehicle incidents, 11.1% of all 219,415 incidents reported in the city that year and down 10.4% from 2024. That is about 627 per 100,000 residents, compared with 634 per 100,000 across the 46 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 18,694 theft from vehicle incidents have been published.
Theft from vehicle in Los Angeles by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 18,694 | — | — |
| 2025 | 24,333 | 627 | down 10.4% |
| 2024 | 27,163 | 700 | down 11.9% |
| 2023 | 30,817 | 795 | down 4.9% |
| 2022 | 32,402 | 835 | up 9.2% |
| 2021 | 29,669 | 765 | up 7.2% |
| 2020 | 27,668 | 713 | down 11.1% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 471,779 theft from vehicle incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most theft from vehicle (2025)
- Central 2,768 incidents
- N Hollywood 1,525 incidents
- Olympic 1,500 incidents
- Northeast 1,390 incidents
- Pacific 1,336 incidents
- Van Nuys 1,305 incidents
- Wilshire 1,300 incidents
- Rampart 1,205 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many theft from vehicle incidents were reported in Los Angeles in 2025?
24,333, according to Los Angeles Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is theft from vehicle going up or down in Los Angeles?
Reported theft from vehicle was down 10.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 24.9% 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.
Other crime types in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles theft 57,476 in 2025
- Los Angeles assault 44,582 in 2025
- Los Angeles other 40,032 in 2025
- Los Angeles vandalism 25,395 in 2025
- Los Angeles burglary 11,761 in 2025
- Los Angeles robbery 7,285 in 2025
- Los Angeles fraud 3,267 in 2025
- Los Angeles sexual assault 2,648 in 2025
- Los Angeles auto theft 2,303 in 2025
- Los Angeles homicide 238 in 2025
- Los Angeles bike theft 95 in 2025