Violations by Area
Showing LA County totals. Click any neighborhood below to filter.
Housing Inspection Year
Right axis scaled to data range for readability
The City of Los Angeles accounts for 57.6% of all 48,085 inspections in this dataset, with 27,686 inspections across the study period. The next largest jurisdictions are Glendale (5.9%), Burbank (4.6%), and Santa Monica (2.5%). No other city exceeds 2% of total inspections. The City of Los Angeles is one of 85 cities under contract with LA County's Environmental Health Division, yet accounts for more than half of all inspections. That level of concentration in a single jurisdiction shapes how countywide trends should be interpreted.
Number of unique inspections per year.
| City ↕ | 2023 ↕ | 2024 ↕ | 2025 (Jan-Sep) ↕ |
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Share of inspections that found at least one violation. The Combined column pools all three years from raw counts.
| City ↕ | 2023 ↕ | 2024 ↕ | 2025 ↕ | Combined (2023-2025) ↕ |
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Combined Rate methodology: Calculated from raw counts (total inspections with violations across 2023-2025 divided by total inspections in the same period). Not an average of the three year-by-year percentages. This matters most for neighborhoods where one year had few inspections.
Sample-size methodology: Rates are not displayed for cells with fewer than 10 inspections because such small samples produce unreliable percentages. The raw count is shown instead in italics. Cells with 10-49 inspections show a ⚠ warning. A small inspection count in a given city is itself worth attention: it may reflect reduced DIB capacity or limited inspection coverage rather than improved housing conditions, since DIB inspects incorporated cities at its own discretion rather than under a mandate.
82% is the countywide average, but no city actually experienced an 82% decline. Burbank lost 10% of its inspections. Paramount lost all of them, from 115 down to zero. The county-level number hides two entirely different realities.
Because DIB has no required inspection schedule for incorporated cities, each city's inspection count reflects choices about where DIB sent inspectors, not necessarily conditions on the ground.
Twelve cities in total had inspection activity in 2023 and none at all in January through September 2025. The two largest inspection cities moved with the countywide trend, Los Angeles down 83% (15,572 to 2,670) and Santa Monica down 94% (912 to 59). Nothing in the data explains why coverage continued in one city and stopped in another.
This page suppresses violation rates for areas under 10 inspections because a rate is statistically meaningless at that size. But the small count is itself the finding. Sixteen of the 95 cities and areas in this analysis fall under that threshold across the entire period. A city showing four inspections is not necessarily a healthy city. It may simply be an uninspected one.