Children’s Bureau Snapshot

Child Abuse Statistics

Children’s Bureau understands how important it is for our community to be educated on child abuse in the Los Angeles & surrounding Southern California area. We put together a list of statistics pertaining to child abuse in order to help shed light on the issues our community faces. Help spread awareness, and visit the affiliate links on our Tools & Resources page for further information.

• There were more than 220,000 reports of child abuse and neglect in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in 2017 and over 32 percent of these children were under 5 years old. (Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; Orange County Social Services Agency Child Abuse Registry Statistics, University of California at Berkeley California Child Welfare Indicators Project)
• In the United States in 2000, over 3 million child abuse and neglect reports were filed and 1 million were confirmed.
• In the United States, there are 3,000 children abused each day and four of them will die. Forty percent of these children were under the age of six.
• The age group with the highest abuse rate is 0-3 years.
• Nationally, the highest form of abuse is neglect followed by physical abuse.