Where police report the fewest incidents
This ranks areas by the rate of police-reported incidents, violent offences weighted 60% and property offences 40%, inverted so that fewer reported incidents scores higher. It uses street-level records from the LAPD and the LA County Sheriff, and county-level counts from the California Department of Justice everywhere else.
It is the one measure the Explorer ships switched off. Reported incidents are a record of what was reported to and logged by police, which is shaped by how much a community reports and how heavily an area is patrolled, as well as by what happened. That is a genuinely useful signal and a partial one, and it deserves to be chosen rather than applied by default.
Same weighting, on a map of all 7,644 areas, where you can change the balance and see every measure behind a place.
Fewest reported incidents
Mean score across every measured cell in each neighborhood, ranked against 254 neighborhoods. Names carried by fewer than three measured cells are left out, as are the cluster names this project invented where no established neighborhood name existed.
| # | Neighborhood | Reported-incident score | Median rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Crest | 98 | $3,500/mo |
| 2 | Castaic | 95 | $2,300/mo |
| 3 | Bel-Air | 95 | $2,950/mo |
| 4 | Stevenson Ranch | 95 | $2,450/mo |
| 5 | Rolling Hills | 94 | $3,475/mo |
| 6 | La Crescenta-Montrose | 93 | $2,350/mo |
| 7 | Pacific Palisades | 91 | $3,025/mo |
| 8 | Diamond Bar | 91 | $2,600/mo |
| 9 | Rancho Santa Margarita | 90 | $2,750/mo |
| 10 | Temple City | 88 | $2,025/mo |
| 11 | East San Gabriel | 88 | $2,200/mo |
| 12 | La Habra Heights | 87 | $2,050/mo |
| 13 | Laguna Niguel | 87 | $2,900/mo |
| 14 | East Whittier | 86 | $1,850/mo |
| 15 | Cypress Village | 85 | $3,100/mo |
| 16 | Oak Creek | 85 | $2,975/mo |
| 17 | Orchard Hills | 85 | $3,125/mo |
| 18 | Woodbridge | 85 | $2,925/mo |
| 19 | El Camino Real | 85 | $2,750/mo |
| 20 | Northwood Point | 85 | $3,075/mo |
| 21 | Turtle Rock | 85 | $3,475/mo |
| 22 | Palos Verdes Estates | 85 | $3,075/mo |
| 23 | Northwood | 85 | $3,075/mo |
| 24 | Hacienda Heights | 84 | $2,225/mo |
| 25 | UCI Area | 84 | $2,450/mo |
Areas with no coverage are absent from this ranking rather than placed at the bottom: no data is not the same as no incidents. This measures reported incidents and nothing else, and a rate is not a prediction about any particular street or building.
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How this is measured
- Reported incidents 100%. Police-reported incidents: LAPD and LA County Sheriff street-level records, CA DOJ OpenJustice agency counts elsewhere (violent and property offense sets, 3-year window)
Every measure is a percentile rank from 0 to 100 against all 7,644 populated cells in Los Angeles and Orange County, so a score describes how an area compares within the region rather than against a national baseline. This lens scores 5,831 of them. Block-group figures are blended onto the grid by distance-weighted nearest centroids.
Data compiled 2026-08-20, methodology v1. Free to reuse with credit under CC BY 4.0; place counts come from OpenStreetMap and carry share-alike. Full terms, column definitions and limitations are on the data page.
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