Torrance Crime Rate (2026 Report) | GNS

Torrance’s 2025 burglary data shows a reversal that five years of prior reporting had not shown: homes overtook businesses as the more frequent burglary target for the first time since 2021. Torrance Police Department reported 305 of the city’s 576 burglaries against homes in 2025 — 53.0 percent — up sharply from 36.0 percent in 2024, even as the city’s overall property crime total fell 5.4 percent from the year before. The Torrance crime rate for property offenses ran higher than the California average in 2025, while its violent crime rate ran lower, according to figures reported to the California Department of Justice.

Isaac Roberts, Security Specialist, Guardian National Security (PPO #120268)

This report covers 2025 data — the most recent complete official year available from the California Department of Justice — measured against U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates for the city of Torrance.

Torrance Crime Rate at a Glance

• 3,594 property offenses were reported by Torrance Police Department in 2025 — a rate of 2,597.0 per 100,000 residents, about 44.8 percent above California’s statewide property crime rate of 1,793.7 per 100,000.
• Burglary flipped from majority-commercial to majority-residential in a single year — the residential share rose from 36.0 percent in 2024 to 53.0 percent in 2025, the only year in this five-year window homes outnumbered businesses as burglary targets.
• Burglary is up 60.4 percent since 2021 (359 → 576), driven almost entirely by residential burglaries more than doubling (149 → 305, +104.7 percent) while non-residential burglaries rose a comparatively modest 29.0 percent.
• Torrance’s violent crime rate, 307.1 per 100,000, sits 29.1 percent below the California average of 433.0 per 100,000 — the opposite pattern from its property crime rate.
• 44.4 percent of Torrance larceny targets a vehicle — 1,082 of 2,438 larceny offenses — on top of 580 completed vehicle thefts counted separately, together touching 1,662 offenses.
• Torrance clears property crime well below the state average: burglary 8.0 percent (state 10.2 percent), vehicle theft 2.6 percent (state 6.6 percent), larceny 9.3 percent (state 12.6 percent).
• Population: 138,391 in the city of Torrance (U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025) — down 3.4 percent from 143,265 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.

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Torrance Police Department Reported 3,594 Property Offenses in 2025

Torrance Police Department recorded 3,594 property offenses in 2025: 2,438 larcenies, 580 vehicle thefts and 576 burglaries. Against a city population of 138,391, that is a property crime rate of 2,597.0 per 100,000 residents — above the statewide rate of 1,793.7 per 100,000 that Guardian National Security’s California commercial burglary statistics page independently derived from the same CA DOJ collection.

Violent crime is counted separately and is not included in any property figure on this page. Torrance PD reported 425 violent offenses in 2025 — 1 homicide, 28 forcible rapes, 141 robberies and 255 aggravated assaults — a rate of 307.1 per 100,000 residents, below the statewide violent crime rate of 433.0 per 100,000.

In 2025, Torrance Burglary Flipped From Mostly Commercial to Mostly Residential

Every year from 2021 through 2024, most Torrance burglaries targeted a business. In 2025, that reversed: 305 of 576 burglaries, 53.0 percent, targeted a home. The commercial share dropped from 64.0 percent in 2024 to 47.0 percent in 2025 — a 17-point swing in a single year, and the only year in this window residential burglaries outnumbered commercial ones.

The two structure types moved in opposite directions in 2025 specifically: non-residential burglary fell 35.5 percent from 2024’s 420 to 271, while residential burglary rose 29.2 percent from 236 to 305. Over the full five years, residential burglary more than doubled (149 → 305, +104.7 percent), while non-residential burglary rose a comparatively modest 29.0 percent (210 → 271). This page does not claim to know why the split moved — the source data records the count, not a reason, and a single year’s swing this size can reflect a reporting change, a cluster of incidents, or a genuine shift; the data does not distinguish between them.

Torrance’s 47.0 percent commercial share for 2025 is now below every Southern California city or county Guardian National Security has measured in this series — Santa Barbara County (54.0 percent), Long Beach (54.3 percent), Ventura County (56.2 percent), San Diego County (58.6 percent), the Inland Empire (59.4 percent), Kern County (60.8 percent) and Orange County (64.5 percent) — even though Torrance itself sat inside or above that range every year from 2021 to 2024. Long Beach is the closer comparison of the two: like Torrance, it is a single city police department rather than a county aggregate, but its commercial-burglary share has moved the opposite direction over the same five years, rising rather than falling.

Eight in Ten Torrance Burglaries Involve Forcible Entry

Torrance Police Department classifies burglary entry as forcible or unlawful. Of the 576 burglaries reported in 2025, 465 were forcible entry and 111 were unlawful entry without force — an 80.7 to 19.3 percent split. The two categories sum exactly to the burglary total. CA DOJ’s agency-level file does not separately track attempted burglaries that did not result in entry, so no attempted-entry figure is claimed for Torrance.

At 80.7 percent, Torrance’s forcible-entry share sits well above every county figure in this series, which range from 58.5 percent in San Diego County to 74.7 percent in the Inland Empire. Nearly four in five reported Torrance burglaries involve some form of forced entry, which is the basis for treating door and window hardware verification as a standard, not optional, item on a Guardian National Security post order in the city.

Commercial Burglaries Skew Toward Night, Residential Toward Day

Of the 271 non-residential burglaries Torrance PD reported in 2025, 157 — 57.9 percent — were logged as night, 108 — 39.9 percent — as day, and 6 — 2.2 percent — carry no recorded time. Residential burglary runs the other way: of 305 residential burglaries, 106 — 34.8 percent — were night, 196 — 64.3 percent — were day, and 3 — 1.0 percent — carry no recorded time.

This split is part of why a single citywide Torrance crime rate figure understates the picture: a Torrance business faces meaningfully more nighttime burglary exposure than a home does, while a Torrance home is burglarized more often during the day, when a property is more likely to sit unoccupied — the opposite risk window from a business. Guardian National Security applies that difference directly: overnight coverage as the default on commercial Torrance accounts, daytime patrol emphasis for residential and apartment or HOA accounts.

Nearly Half of Torrance Larceny Targets a Vehicle

Vehicles are the largest single target category inside Torrance’s larceny figures. Of 2,438 larceny-theft offenses in 2025, 592 were thefts from a vehicle and 490 were thefts of vehicle parts or accessories — 1,082 offenses, 44.4 percent of all larceny — on top of 580 completed vehicle thefts counted under a separate offense heading. Combined, vehicles were the target in 1,662 Torrance offenses in 2025, and vehicle theft alone accounts for 16.1 percent of the city’s total property crime.

The remaining larceny splits across shoplifting (565 offenses, 23.2 percent), theft from buildings (230, 9.4 percent), bicycle theft (135, 5.5 percent), pickpocketing (51, 2.1 percent) and all other categories combined, including coin-operated-machine and purse-snatch larceny (375, 15.4 percent). These are counted under separate offense headings in the source data; the totals above are this page’s own arithmetic, stated so it can be checked.

The Torrance crime rate for vehicle-related offenses does not show up in the burglary or headline property figures at all: any Torrance property with parking — a retail lot, an office garage, an apartment structure — carries meaningful vehicle-crime exposure independent of whether the building itself is ever burglarized, which is the basis for parking lot coverage and vehicle patrol as distinct line items from general site security.

Is Torrance Safe? What the Rate and Clearance Data Say

Torrance is not uniformly safer or riskier than the California average — the two major crime categories point in opposite directions. Torrance’s violent crime rate, 307.1 per 100,000 residents, runs 29.1 percent below the statewide rate of 433.0 per 100,000. Its property crime rate, 2,597.0 per 100,000, runs 44.8 percent above the statewide rate of 1,793.7 per 100,000. Anyone asking whether Torrance is safe gets a different answer depending on which category they mean.

Clearance rates add a second dimension. Torrance PD cleared 46 of 576 burglaries in 2025, an 8.0 percent clearance rate, against California’s statewide burglary clearance rate of 10.2 percent. Vehicle theft cleared at 2.6 percent against the state’s 6.6 percent, and larceny cleared at 9.3 percent against 12.6 percent statewide — Torrance clears every major property category below the state average. Violent crime cleared at 36.7 percent (156 of 425), also below California’s 45.9 percent.

A lower clearance rate does not, by itself, mean a higher chance of loss before an arrest happens — it means an arrest is a less likely outcome to rely on after a crime has already occurred. Combined with an above-average property crime rate, that is a case for prevention-focused coverage over one that assumes police response and clearance will resolve most property losses.

The Torrance Crime Rate Over Five Years

Property crime in Torrance rose 9.2 percent between 2021 and 2025, from 3,290 offenses to 3,594, but the five years did not move in a straight line. Offenses climbed every year through 2024, peaked at 3,800, then fell 5.4 percent to reach 2025’s total. Burglary followed a sharper version of the same shape: up from 359 in 2021 to a 656 peak in 2024, then down 12.2 percent to 576 in 2025 — but still 60.4 percent above its 2021 level.

Vehicle theft moved in the opposite direction of burglary: it fell 4.9 percent net over the five years (610 → 580), after peaking at 724 in 2022. Violent crime rose 39.8 percent, from 304 offenses in 2021 to 425 in 2025, with the increase concentrated in aggravated assault (162 → 255). The population base moved the other direction over this period, falling 3.4 percent from 143,265 in 2021 to 138,391 in 2025, so none of these percentage increases are an artifact of a growing denominator.

What These Torrance Crime Statistics Mean for Property and Business Owners

Three findings here change how a Torrance property should be covered. First, the burglary target flipped to majority-residential in 2025 for the first time in five years of data — a homeowner or HOA board that assumed burglary was mainly a commercial problem in Torrance is now working from an outdated picture. Second, the time-of-day split runs opposite by structure type: commercial burglary skews toward night, residential toward day, which argues for different coverage windows rather than one schedule applied to every account.

Third, Torrance’s property crime rate sits well above the state average while every property-crime category clears below the state average — a combination that favors prevention and deterrence over reliance on police response after a loss. The vehicle-exposure finding stands apart from the burglary findings entirely: 44.4 percent of Torrance larceny targets a vehicle, a risk that exists on any property with parking regardless of whether the building itself is ever burglarized.

Guardian National Security covers Torrance as part of its Los Angeles County security guard services, and publishes rates openly: unarmed guards $25–40 per hour, armed guards $35–65 per hour, mobile patrol $45–70 per hour, with a price-match guarantee on any comparable licensed quote. For a Torrance-specific quote and coverage plan built around the patterns above, see Guardian National Security’s Torrance security guard services page.

Methodology and Source Notes

The Torrance 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 Long Beach, 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 Torrance, within Los Angeles County, for each year shown.

These are UCR summary counts, not NIBRS incident records. Torrance PD reports monthly offense totals under the FBI’s summary Uniform Crime Reporting definitions to CA DOJ — a different measure from the incident-level NIBRS data the City of Los Angeles publishes for LAPD on Guardian National Security’s Los Angeles property crime statistics page, or from any county-wide Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department figure. Torrance is its own reporting agency, separate from both, so the Torrance crime rate figures on this page are never added to either of those totals.

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-nine tested fields matched exactly. Internal subtotals also reconcile: residential plus non-residential burglary equals total burglary in every year 2021–2025, forcible plus unlawful entry equals total burglary, night plus day plus unrecorded time equals each structure type’s burglary total, and burglary plus vehicle theft plus larceny equals total property crime.

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. Statewide comparison figures are cited from Guardian National Security’s California commercial burglary statistics page, itself sourced to CA DOJ’s Crime in California 2025 report and independently re-derivable from the same raw files linked above.

Deliberately NOT claimed on this page: a reason for the 2025 residential/commercial burglary flip (the source data records the count, not a motive); a commercial-specific burglary clearance rate (CA DOJ does not publish clearances split by residential versus non-residential structure type); a combined Los Angeles County total (Torrance PD, LAPD and the LA County Sheriff are three separate reporting agencies whose figures are not interchangeable or additive); any causal claim about the effect of private security patrol on these figures (no published dataset measures that for Torrance, and any specific percentage would not be traceable to a primary source).

Limits of this data. These are offenses reported to police; unreported crime is not counted. CA DOJ’s agency-level file records burglary entry as forcible or unlawful only and does not separately track attempted burglaries that did not result in entry, so no attempted-entry figure is claimed for Torrance. A single city’s year-over-year figures, including the 2025 burglary-target reversal on this page, can move for reasons the source data does not explain — a caution this page states rather than resolves.

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