Photo: Laurie Avocado · CC BY 2.0Hawaiian Gardens sees more violent crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts held about level from 2023 to 2025. From 2023 to 2025, crimes Hawaiian Gardens’ police reported put it at D for safety: #345 of 416 graded towns in California. Year on year, 6.3 violent crimes and 19.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 4.9 and 21.4 in the rest of California. 2 of the 3 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident.
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 Hawaiian Gardens
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 3 California towns on Hawaiian Gardens’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Cypress (C), Lakewood (C−), Long Beach (D). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Hawaiian Gardens’ 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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Hawaiian Gardens | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 7.4 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hawaiian Gardens’ police reported 250 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 6.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Hawaiian Gardens 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 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Hawaiian Gardens property | Rest of California property | Hawaiian Gardens violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24.0 | 24.8 | 5.8 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 20.3 | 25.0 | 5.2 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 21.0 | 20.8 | 7.4 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 18.5 | 18.5 | 6.2 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of California.
329 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.
83 violent and 246 property, as reported to the FBI by Hawaiian Gardens’ police.
One person died in crashes on Hawaiian Gardens’s roads in 2019–2023
Hawaiian Gardens had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for California towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hawaiian Gardens’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hawaiian Gardens’s own rate (1.5) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Hawaiian Gardens and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Gardens | D | 6.3 | 19.9 |
| Long Beach | D | 6.4 | 30.0 |
| Lakewood | C− | 3.9 | 22.8 |
| Cypress | C | 2.8 | 15.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Gardens | D | 6.3 | 19.9 |
| Mill Valley | B+ | 0.7 | 8.6 |
| Avenal | B− | 3.9 | 2.5 |
| Kingsburg | B− | 1.6 | 12.5 |
| California City | C− | 5.7 | 15.8 |
| Emeryville | D− | 11.6 | 132.7 |
The five graded California towns closest to Hawaiian Gardens’ population (13,373), 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 Hawaiian Gardens. 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 Hawaiian Gardens’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (13,302 in 2025); our figure for Hawaiian Gardens is 13,373 (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 Hawaiian Gardens
Is Hawaiian Gardens, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hawaiian Gardens reports more crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #345 of 416 in California. Its police reported 6.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Hawaiian Gardens?
6.3 violent and 19.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Hawaiian Gardens safer than Long Beach?
Long Beach reports more crime per resident than Hawaiian Gardens: Long Beach grades D for safety and Hawaiian Gardens D. Long Beach’s police reported 6.4 violent and 30.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Hawaiian Gardens?
Hawaiian Gardens’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hawaiian Gardens”. 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.