Photo: Jengod · CC BY-SA 4.0Culver City has more crime per resident than 98% of U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts fell 27% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Typical years here bring 7.0 violent crimes plus 57.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 4.8 plus 21.3 in the rest of California. A Safety Grade of D− follows from crimes Culver City’s police reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #406 of 416 graded towns in California. It has more violent crime than 94% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 99%.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CA” is every other California city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Culver City
A job center
Culver City has 70,212 jobs based in town for 39,452 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Culver City’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Culver City property | Rest of California property | Culver City violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 55.0 | 24.8 | 7.4 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 67.0 | 24.9 | 7.9 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 58.6 | 20.8 | 6.7 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 48.2 | 18.4 | 6.6 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of California.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Culver City | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.4 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 7.9 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.7 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.6 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Culver City’s police reported 824 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Culver City per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 7 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
2,175 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
261 violent and 1,914 property, as reported to the FBI by Culver City’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Culver City’s roads in 2019–2023
Culver City had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 4 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (8 of 11) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 5.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for California towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.6, 231 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Culver City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culver City | D− | 7.0 | 57.9 |
| Ladera Heights | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Ladera Heights is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culver City | D− | 7.0 | 57.9 |
| Rancho Palos Verdes | B+ | 1.1 | 8.4 |
| Calexico | B | 1.5 | 7.2 |
| La Quinta | C | 1.7 | 20.2 |
| Monrovia | C | 2.4 | 21.9 |
| Stanton | C− | 4.3 | 15.9 |
The five graded California towns closest to Culver City’s population (39,452), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Culver City. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Culver City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (39,678 in 2025); our figure for Culver City is 39,452 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Culver City
Is Culver City, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Culver City reports more crime per resident than 98% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade and #406 of 416 in California. Its police reported 7.0 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.8 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Culver City?
7.0 violent and 57.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.8 and 21.3; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Culver City in 2025?
Culver City’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Culver City?
Culver City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Culver City”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.