Long Beach crime statistics for 2025 show a burglary pattern moving in two directions at once: total burglaries fell 17.6 percent over five years, yet the share hitting businesses rather than homes climbed 16 percentage points — from 38.0 percent in 2021 to 54.3 percent in 2025. Long Beach Police Department reported 1,826 burglaries to the California Department of Justice in 2025, and 992 of them — 54.3 percent — targeted a business, a share that has climbed in four of the last five years even as the raw burglary count dropped.
Isaac Roberts, Security Specialist, Guardian National Security (PPO #120268)
This 2026 report covers 2025 data — the most recent complete official year available from the California Department of Justice — against U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates.
Long Beach Crime Statistics at a Glance
- 11,272 property offenses were reported by Long Beach Police Department in 2025 — a rate of 2,502.3 per 100,000 residents.
- 54.3 percent of burglaries targeted a business, not a home — up from 38.0 percent in 2021, even as the total burglary count fell 17.6 percent over the same five years.
- Among commercial burglaries, 62.6 percent happened at night — every one of the 992 non-residential burglaries carries a recorded time, an unusually complete data set for this series.
- Vehicles were the target in 42.1 percent of all Long Beach larceny — 2,610 of 6,201 larceny offenses, on top of 3,245 completed vehicle thefts counted separately.
- Long Beach clears property crime below the California average in every measured category: burglary 5.8 percent (state 10.2 percent), vehicle theft 3.1 percent (state 6.6 percent), larceny 5.1 percent (state 12.6 percent).
- Property crime fell 11.8 percent between 2021 and 2025, but not in a straight line — 2024 was a spike year, and 2025’s total is down 27.1 percent from that single-year peak.
- Population: 450,469 in the city of Long Beach (U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025) — down slightly from 455,224 in 2021.
Every figure on this page comes from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes and Clearances collection or the U.S. Census Bureau, and every one can be re-derived from the raw files linked in the methodology section.
Long Beach Has Its Own Police Department, Separate From LAPD
Long Beach Police Department is a distinct law enforcement agency from the Los Angeles Police Department, even though Long Beach sits inside Los Angeles County. Guardian National Security’s Los Angeles property crime statistics page is built entirely from LAPD’s own incident-level open-data records — a city of Los Angeles dataset that does not include a single Long Beach incident. This page draws on a different source: the statewide CA DOJ Crimes and Clearances file that every county-level page in this series uses, filtered to the one row where the reporting agency is Long Beach PD.
The two pages also use different reporting formats and cannot be added together or compared figure-for-figure. LAPD’s numbers come from NIBRS incident records; Long Beach’s come from the summary Uniform Crime Reporting counts CA DOJ publishes for every agency in the state, the same format behind Guardian National Security’s Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura, Orange, San Diego and Inland Empire county pages. Anyone comparing Long Beach to Los Angeles should compare it to LAPD’s own published figures, not to a number computed by adding the two datasets together.
Long Beach Police Department Reported 11,272 Property Offenses in 2025
Long Beach Police Department recorded 11,272 property offenses in 2025: 6,201 larcenies, 3,245 vehicle thefts and 1,826 burglaries. Against a city population of 450,469, that is a property crime rate of 2,502.3 per 100,000 residents.
| Category | Offenses | Share of property crime | Rate per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larceny-theft | 6,201 | 55.0% | 1,376.6 |
| Vehicle theft | 3,245 | 28.8% | 720.4 |
| Burglary | 1,826 | 16.2% | 405.4 |
| Total property | 11,272 | 100% | 2,502.3 |
Violent crime is counted separately and is not included in any property figure on this page. Long Beach PD reported 2,778 violent offenses in 2025 — 29 homicides, 170 forcible rapes, 756 robberies and 1,823 aggravated assaults — a rate of 616.7 per 100,000 residents.
Long Beach’s Commercial-Burglary Share Rose 16 Points Since 2021
Long Beach’s commercial-burglary share has moved sharply upward even as the total number of burglaries fell. Of the 1,826 burglaries Long Beach PD reported in 2025, 992 were non-residential — 54.3 percent — against 834 residential. In 2021, the split ran the other way: only 841 of 2,216 burglaries, 38.0 percent, were commercial. The commercial share rose in four of the last five years, peaking at 66.2 percent in 2024 before pulling back to 54.3 percent in 2025.
Statewide, California reported 109,596 burglaries in 2025, of which 68,153 — 62.2 percent — were non-residential, according to Guardian National Security’s California commercial burglary statistics page. Long Beach’s 54.3 percent share sits below that statewide figure and near the low end of the six-county range Guardian National Security has measured across Southern California: Santa Barbara County at 54.0 percent, Ventura County at 56.2 percent, San Diego County at 58.6 percent, the Inland Empire at 59.4 percent, Kern County at 60.8 percent and Orange County at 64.5 percent.
Long Beach, a single city police department rather than a county aggregate, lands essentially tied with Santa Barbara County for the lowest commercial share measured in this series — even though its five-year trend line moved in the opposite direction, upward, while every county in the series that reports a comparable trend has moved down or stayed flat.
| Jurisdiction | Total burglary | Non-residential | Residential | Commercial share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara County | 830 | 448 | 382 | 54.0% |
| Long Beach (city) | 1,826 | 992 | 834 | 54.3% |
| Ventura County | 1,163 | 654 | 509 | 56.2% |
| San Diego County | 4,261 | 2,497 | 1,764 | 58.6% |
| Inland Empire (Riverside + San Bernardino) | 10,603 | 6,302 | 4,301 | 59.4% |
| Kern County | 3,539 | 2,152 | 1,387 | 60.8% |
| Orange County | 5,888 | 3,798 | 2,090 | 64.5% |
| California (statewide) | 109,596 | 68,153 | 41,443 | 62.2% |
This page does not claim to know why Long Beach’s commercial share rose while the county comparison group’s did not — the source data records the count, not a reason, and the trend deserves the same caution as any single-city figure: a large event, a reporting change, or a shift concentrated in a handful of businesses can move a share this size without reflecting a citywide pattern.
Forcible Entry Accounts for Six in Ten Long Beach Burglaries
Six in ten Long Beach burglaries involve forcible entry, not unlawful entry without force. Of the 1,826 burglaries reported in 2025, 1,159 were recorded as forcible entry and 667 as unlawful entry — a 63.5 to 36.5 percent split. The two categories sum exactly to the burglary total, so every reported burglary falls into one or the other. CA DOJ records this as a binary classification at the agency level and does not separately track attempted burglaries that did not result in entry — that finer breakdown exists only in the state’s annual summary tables, not in the agency-level file this page is built from, so no attempted-entry figure is claimed here.
At 63.5 percent, Long Beach’s forcible-entry share sits above San Diego County’s 58.5 percent, Santa Barbara County’s 61.2 percent and Ventura County’s 62.5 percent, but below Orange County’s 71.0 percent, Kern County’s 72.1 percent and the Inland Empire’s 74.7 percent — roughly the middle of the six-county range. What the category does establish is that more than a third of reported Long Beach burglaries involved no forced entry at all, which is the basis for door and window lock verification as a standard duty on a Guardian National Security post order.
Commercial Burglaries in Long Beach Skew Toward Nighttime
Commercial burglary in Long Beach skews toward nighttime, and the data behind that finding is unusually complete: every one of the 992 non-residential burglaries reported in 2025 carries a recorded time, with none logged as unknown. Of those, 621 — 62.6 percent — happened at night, and 371 — 37.4 percent — during the day.
| Time recorded | Burglaries | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Night | 621 | 62.6% |
| Day | 371 | 37.4% |
| Total, known time | 992 | 100% |
That places Long Beach toward the higher end of the night-share range Guardian National Security has measured: above Santa Barbara County (46.6 percent night), Orange County (54.3 percent), San Diego County (55.2 percent), the Inland Empire (55.6 percent) and Ventura County (58.8 percent), and just below Kern County (66.6 percent). Residential burglary runs closer to even — of 834 residential burglaries, 411 were night and 423 were day, a 49.3 to 50.7 percent split with, again, no unrecorded cases. A commercial site in Long Beach faces materially more nighttime exposure than a home does, which is the operational basis for overnight patrol coverage on commercial accounts specifically, distinct from residential post orders.
Vehicles Are the Target in Two of Every Five Long Beach Larcenies
Vehicles are the single largest target category inside Long Beach’s larceny figures. Of 6,201 larceny-theft offenses in 2025, 1,682 were thefts from a vehicle and 928 were thefts of vehicle parts or accessories — 2,610 offenses, 42.1 percent of all larceny — on top of 3,245 completed vehicle thefts counted under a separate offense heading. Combined, vehicles were the target in 5,855 Long Beach offenses in 2025.
These are counted under separate offense headings in the source data and are not combined anywhere by CA DOJ; the totals above are this page’s own arithmetic, stated so it can be checked. Long Beach’s 42.1 percent vehicle-related larceny share is nearly double Santa Barbara County’s 22.7 percent, the only other figure in this series measured the same way, which is relevant to anyone weighing parking lot coverage or vehicle patrol for a Long Beach property with any amount of parking, from a retail lot to an apartment garage.
Long Beach Clears Property Crime Below the California Average in Every Category
Long Beach clears property crime below the statewide average in every category CA DOJ publishes — the opposite of Santa Barbara County, the one sibling in this series that clears burglary, vehicle theft, property crime and violent crime above the state average across the board. Long Beach PD cleared 106 of 1,826 burglaries in 2025, a 5.8 percent clearance rate, against a statewide burglary clearance rate of 10.2 percent.
Vehicle theft cleared at 3.1 percent against California’s 6.6 percent, larceny-theft cleared at 5.1 percent against 12.6 percent statewide, and overall property clearance in Long Beach was 4.6 percent against 11.2 percent. Violent crime cleared closer to the state figure but still below it, at 37.5 percent against California’s 45.9 percent — driven mostly by a low robbery clearance rate (25.0 percent) and aggravated-assault clearance rate (42.2 percent); homicide cleared at 79.3 percent, above the typical pattern for property offenses.
| Category | Long Beach | California |
|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 5.8% | 10.2% |
| Vehicle theft | 3.1% | 6.6% |
| Larceny-theft | 5.1% | 12.6% |
| Property (overall) | 4.6% | 11.2% |
| Violent crime | 37.5% | 45.9% |
The dataset does not split clearances into residential and non-residential, so this page does not report a commercial-burglary-specific clearance rate. That figure is not published and is not estimated here. A lower clearance rate does not by itself mean a higher risk of loss before an arrest happens, but it does mean an arrest is a less likely outcome to rely on after a crime has already occurred — which is the case for prevention-focused coverage over a response that assumes police clearance.
Property Crime Fell in Long Beach Since 2021, but 2024 Was a Spike Year
Property crime in Long Beach fell 11.8 percent between 2021 and 2025, from 12,773 offenses to 11,272, but the five years did not move in a straight line. Property offenses rose in three of the four years after 2021, peaked at 15,454 in 2024, and then fell 27.1 percent in a single year to reach 2025’s total. Burglary followed the same shape: down from 2,216 in 2021, up to a 3,131 peak in 2024, then down 41.7 percent to 1,826 in 2025.
Vehicle theft followed the same up-then-down shape as property and burglary: down to 2,579 in 2022, up to a 4,346 peak in 2024, then down 25.3 percent to 3,245 in 2025 — a net 4.7 percent decline from 2021’s 3,404, but not a steady one. Violent crime rose 6.9 percent, from 2,599 to 2,778, also with 2024 as a peak year at 3,004.
| Year | Property | Burglary | Commercial burglary | Vehicle theft | Violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12,773 | 2,216 | 841 | 3,404 | 2,599 |
| 2022 | 10,556 | 2,100 | 1,001 | 2,579 | 2,438 |
| 2023 | 13,294 | 2,268 | 1,382 | 3,766 | 2,782 |
| 2024 | 15,454 | 3,131 | 2,074 | 4,346 | 3,004 |
| 2025 | 11,272 | 1,826 | 992 | 3,245 | 2,778 |
| Change, 2021→2025 | −11.8% | −17.6% | +16.3 pts share | −4.7% | +6.9% |
A headline of “property crime is down 11.8 percent since 2021” is accurate for the five-year window but hides a volatile middle: 2024 alone accounted for a sharper single-year swing than the entire five-year trend. The population base moved the other direction over this period, falling slightly from 455,224 in 2021 to 450,469 in 2025, so the property-crime decline is not an artifact of a growing denominator.
What the Long Beach Crime Statistics Mean for Property and Business Owners
Three findings in these Long Beach crime statistics change how a commercial site should be covered. First, the commercial-burglary share climbed 16 points since 2021 even while total burglaries fell — a shift toward businesses as targets, not away from them, that a five-year decline headline alone would miss. Second, commercial burglary with a known time skews toward night in Long Beach (62.6 percent), supporting overnight coverage as a default for commercial accounts, while residential burglary splits close to evenly between day and night.
Third, Long Beach clears property crime below the statewide average in every measured category, meaning an arrest is a comparatively less likely outcome after a crime occurs here than in most of the counties Guardian National Security has measured — a case for prevention-focused coverage rather than reliance on police response and clearance.
The vehicle-exposure finding matters separately from the burglary findings: 42.1 percent of Long Beach larceny targets a vehicle, nearly double the only other figure in this series measured the same way. Any Long Beach property with parking — a retail lot, an apartment garage, a logistics yard — carries that exposure regardless of whether the building itself is ever burglarized.
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Methodology and Source Notes
The Long Beach crime statistics on this page come from the California Department of Justice Crimes and Clearances (including Arson), 1985–2025 file, published July 2026 through OpenJustice — the same file and vintage behind Guardian National Security’s Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura, Orange, San Diego, Inland Empire and statewide California pages. Figures were produced by filtering that file to the single agency row CA DOJ lists as Long Beach, within Los Angeles County, for each year shown.
These are UCR summary counts, not NIBRS incident records. Long Beach PD reports monthly offense totals under the FBI’s summary Uniform Crime Reporting definitions to CA DOJ, which is a different measure from the incident-level NIBRS data the City of Los Angeles publishes for LAPD. The two must never be added together or compared directly, which is why this page does not attempt a combined Los Angeles County total and treats the Los Angeles property crime statistics page as a separate, non-comparable dataset rather than a parent page for this one.
Every figure was derived twice, by different routes. Each headline number was computed from the annual file and then recomputed by summing the twelve monthly rows for 2025 in the separate by-month file. All twenty tested fields matched exactly. Internal subtotals also reconcile: residential plus non-residential burglary equals total burglary, forcible plus unlawful entry equals total burglary, night plus day equals total commercial burglary with a known time, and burglary plus vehicle theft plus larceny equals total property crime. The six-county and statewide comparison figures on this page were independently computed from the same file using the identical method, not copied from any other page.
Raw file: Crimes and Clearances 1985–2025 (CSV). Definitions and reporting rules: CA DOJ context document. Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates.
Limits of this data. These are offenses reported to police; unreported crime is not counted. Clearance rates are not published split by residential and non-residential, so no commercial clearance rate is claimed. CA DOJ’s agency-level file records burglary entry as forcible or unlawful only; it does not separately track attempted burglaries that did not result in entry, so no attempted-entry figure is claimed for Long Beach specifically, even though the state’s own annual summary tables report one at the statewide level. A single city’s year-over-year figures, including the commercial-burglary-share trend on this page, can move for reasons the source data does not explain — a caution this page states rather than resolves.
Long Beach Crime Statistics: Frequently Asked Questions
How much crime is there in Long Beach?
Long Beach Police Department reported 11,272 property offenses and 2,778 violent offenses citywide in 2025. Against a population of 450,469, that works out to a property crime rate of 2,502.3 per 100,000 residents. The figures come from the California Department of Justice.
Property crime breaks into 6,201 larcenies, 3,245 vehicle thefts and 1,826 burglaries. It fell 11.8 percent since 2021, though not steadily — offenses actually rose in three of the four years after 2021, peaked at 15,454 in 2024, and then dropped 27.1 percent in a single year to reach 2025’s total. Violent crime moved the opposite direction, up 6.9 percent over the same five years, from 2,599 offenses in 2021 to 2,778 in 2025.
Are Long Beach burglaries more likely to target a business or a home?
Long Beach burglaries are slightly more likely to target a business than a home, based on Long Beach Police Department’s 2025 data, and that pattern has strengthened sharply since 2021. Of 1,826 burglaries in 2025, 992 were non-residential — 54.3 percent.
In 2021, only 38.0 percent of Long Beach burglaries were commercial. The share rose in four of the last five years, peaking at 66.2 percent in 2024 before settling at 54.3 percent in 2025 — a 16-point increase even as total burglaries fell 17.6 percent. That is near the low end of the six-county Southern California range Guardian National Security has measured, essentially tied with Santa Barbara County (54.0 percent) for lowest, though moving the opposite direction over time.
Is Long Beach part of the LAPD crime statistics Guardian National Security publishes?
No. Long Beach has its own police department, separate from LAPD, and Guardian National Security’s Los Angeles property crime statistics page is built entirely from LAPD’s own incident-level data for the city of Los Angeles specifically, even though Long Beach sits inside Los Angeles County.
This page uses a different source: the statewide CA DOJ Crimes and Clearances file, filtered to the row where the reporting department is Long Beach PD. LAPD reports incident-level NIBRS records; Long Beach reports summary counts, the same format Guardian National Security’s Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura, Orange, San Diego and Inland Empire pages use. The two formats are not combined here.
What time of day do commercial burglaries happen in Long Beach?
Commercial burglaries in Long Beach happen more often at night than during the day. Of the 992 non-residential burglaries Long Beach Police Department reported in 2025, all with a recorded time, 621 — 62.6 percent — occurred at night and 371 during the day.
That is a higher night share than five of six Southern California counties measured — above Santa Barbara (46.6 percent), Orange (54.3 percent), San Diego (55.2 percent), the Inland Empire (55.6 percent) and Ventura (58.8 percent) — and just below Kern County’s 66.6 percent, the highest. Residential burglary splits closer to evenly, 49.3 percent night to 50.7 percent day, so the night-heavy pattern is specific to commercial targets.
How many Long Beach crimes lead to an arrest?
Long Beach clears crime below the California average in every category CA DOJ publishes, according to Long Beach Police Department’s 2025 data. Long Beach PD cleared 106 of 1,826 burglaries that year, a 5.8 percent clearance rate, compared with 10.2 percent statewide.
Vehicle theft cleared at 3.1 percent against California’s 6.6 percent, and larceny-theft cleared at 5.1 percent against 12.6 percent statewide — both well under half the state’s rate. Overall property clearance came in at 4.6 percent against 11.2 percent, and violent crime cleared at 37.5 percent against 45.9 percent. No commercial-specific burglary clearance rate is published or claimed.
How much Long Beach crime involves vehicles?
Vehicles are the single largest target category in Long Beach’s larceny figures. Of 6,201 larceny-theft offenses in 2025, 2,610 — 42.1 percent — were thefts from a vehicle or of vehicle parts, on top of 3,245 completed vehicle thefts counted separately.
Long Beach’s 42.1 percent vehicle-related larceny share is nearly double Santa Barbara County’s 22.7 percent, the only comparable figure published elsewhere in this series. The exposure applies to any Long Beach property with parking — a retail lot, an apartment garage or a logistics yard — regardless of whether the building itself has ever been burglarized, which is why coverage plans built only around burglary risk can miss it.
Where do these Long Beach crime statistics come from?
These Long Beach crime statistics are drawn from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes and Clearances file, covering 1985 through 2025 and published through OpenJustice in July 2026, filtered specifically to the Long Beach Police Department agency row for each year shown.
Population figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates. Every headline figure on this page was independently re-derived a second way, by summing the twelve separate monthly rows for 2025 in CA DOJ’s by-month file rather than relying on the annual file alone, and all twenty tested fields matched exactly. The six-county and statewide comparison figures were computed from that same file using the identical method.
