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La Mesa Crime Rate Report (California)

La Mesa crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 27 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in La Mesa for 2026 is expected to be lower than in 2025.

The city violent crime rate for La Mesa in 2025 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 21.21% and the city property crime rate in La Mesa was lower than the national property crime rate average by 12.71%.

In 2025 the city violent crime rate in La Mesa was lower than the violent crime rate in California by 8.23% and the city property crime rate in La Mesa was lower than the property crime rate in California by 25.25%.

Property and Violent Crime
La Mesa Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
La Mesa Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

La Mesa Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2025 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault181
Arson9
Burglary126
Larceny and Theft573
Motor Vehicle Theft114
Murder and Manslaughter1
Rape15
Robbery44
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)1,012
Property Crime813
Violent Crime241
2026 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault179
Arson11
Burglary114
Larceny and Theft515
Motor Vehicle Theft150
Murder and Manslaughter2
Rape11
Robbery47
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)977
Property Crime778
Violent Crime239

Property and Violent Crime Totals

La Mesa Property Crime

La Mesa Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

La Mesa Crime 2025

La Mesa Crime 2026

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

La Mesa Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

La Mesa Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this La Mesa, California crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends found in the years of actual reported crime data on file. In this case, the La Mesa crime report data for 2026 was projected from 27 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2025.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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