Photo: user:Epolk · CC BY-SA 3.0Los Alamitos reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Los Alamitos’ police in 2023–2025, it grades C− for safety: #245 of 416 graded towns in California.
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 Los Alamitos
2 of the 4 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 California towns on Los Alamitos’ borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Garden Grove (C+), Cypress (C), Seal Beach (D), Long Beach (D). Rossmoor is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
Among California towns, closer to the middle
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Los Alamitos’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 41% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 24% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Los Alamitos has 12,906 jobs based in town for 11,702 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 Los Alamitos’ 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. Its violent rate (3.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime is falling
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.
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| Year | Los Alamitos property | Rest of California property | Los Alamitos violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 28.5 | 24.8 | 2.9 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 24.4 | 25.0 | 3.8 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 18.3 | 20.8 | 3.5 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 15.8 | 18.5 | 2.6 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 16 property crimes reported
And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Los Alamitos’ police reported 117 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Los Alamitos | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.9 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
218 crimes reported in 2025
31 violent and 187 property, as reported to the FBI by Los Alamitos’ police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Seven people died in crashes on Los Alamitos’s roads in 2019–2023
Los Alamitos had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 3 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (5 of 7) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is more than 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 Los Alamitos’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Los Alamitos’s own rate (11.9) 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.
Los Alamitos and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Alamitos | C− | 3.3 | 19.4 |
| Cypress | C | 2.8 | 15.0 |
| Rossmoor | — | — | — |
| Seal Beach | D | 4.2 | 26.6 |
| Long Beach | D | 6.4 | 30.0 |
| Garden Grove | C+ | 2.3 | 14.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Rossmoor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Alamitos | C− | 3.3 | 19.4 |
| San Marino | B | 0.5 | 14.7 |
| Fortuna | B− | 2.1 | 12.0 |
| Scotts Valley | C+ | 2.2 | 14.6 |
| Tehachapi | C− | 4.6 | 21.5 |
| Commerce | D− | 13.7 | 123.4 |
The five graded California towns closest to Los Alamitos’ population (11,702), by grade.
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 Los Alamitos. 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 Los Alamitos’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (11,864 in 2025); our figure for Los Alamitos is 11,702 (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 Los Alamitos
Is Los Alamitos, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Los Alamitos reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #245 of 416 in California. Its police reported 3.3 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 Los Alamitos?
3.3 violent and 19.4 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 crime going up or down in Los Alamitos?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Is Los Alamitos safer than Cypress?
Cypress reports less crime per resident than Los Alamitos: Cypress grades C for safety and Los Alamitos C−. Cypress’s police reported 2.8 violent and 15.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Los Alamitos?
Los Alamitos’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Los Alamitos”. 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.