Assault in the US

Mapped from police open data · updated 2026-11-12

Across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with a complete 2025 year of police open data that list assault, assault ran at about 1,325 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 5.0% from 2024 in the 55 cities with both years complete. The list below ranks those cities by their own rate; the second list shows the largest archives.

Highest assault rates per 100,000 (2025)

  1. 1. Detroit 3,585 per 100K · 23,149 incidents · MI
  2. 2. Peoria 3,477 per 100K · 3,884 incidents · IL
  3. 3. Memphis 2,846 per 100K · 17,385 incidents · TN
  4. 4. Baton Rouge 2,619 per 100K · 5,785 incidents · LA
  5. 5. Chicago 2,367 per 100K · 64,419 incidents · IL
  6. 6. Baltimore 2,047 per 100K · 11,634 incidents · MD
  7. 7. Tucson 1,986 per 100K · 11,000 incidents · AZ
  8. 8. Nashville 1,978 per 100K · 13,945 incidents · TN
  9. 9. Kansas City 1,846 per 100K · 9,527 incidents · MO
  10. 10. Evansville 1,806 per 100K · 2,084 incidents · IN
  11. 11. Chattanooga 1,752 per 100K · 3,355 incidents · TN
  12. 12. Spokane 1,681 per 100K · 3,877 incidents · WA
  13. 13. Las Vegas 1,677 per 100K · 28,785 incidents · NV
  14. 14. Milwaukee 1,647 per 100K · 9,283 incidents · WI
  15. 15. Norfolk 1,626 per 100K · 3,758 incidents · VA
  16. 16. Omaha 1,604 per 100K · 7,850 incidents · NE
  17. 17. Louisville 1,596 per 100K · 10,226 incidents · KY
  18. 18. Indianapolis 1,577 per 100K · 14,061 incidents · IN
  19. 19. Jacksonville 1,443 per 100K · 14,573 incidents · FL
  20. 20. Glendale 1,432 per 100K · 3,696 incidents · AZ

Largest assault archives

  1. 1. Chicago 1,191,578
  2. 2. Los Angeles 742,317
  3. 3. Austin 257,391
  4. 4. Detroit 223,149
  5. 5. San Antonio 151,605
  6. 6. Seattle 144,248
  7. 7. Oakland 130,504
  8. 8. Memphis 124,531
  9. 9. Nashville 105,879
  10. 10. Charlotte 102,434
  11. 11. New Orleans 101,289
  12. 12. Cincinnati 100,295
  13. 13. Indianapolis 99,568
  14. 14. Tucson 96,920
  15. 15. Kansas City 92,816
  16. 16. Jacksonville 91,015
  17. 17. Fort Worth 72,104
  18. 18. San Diego 71,641
  19. 19. New York 68,668
  20. 20. Buffalo 67,157
  21. 21. San Francisco 65,091
  22. 22. Skagit County 64,790
  23. 23. Las Vegas 64,656
  24. 24. Atlanta 61,528
  25. 25. Baltimore 58,588

Archive counts are full-archive incidents; portals differ in coverage and start year. Rates use US Census 2024 population and only cities whose feed covers all 12 months of 2025; departments classify offenses differently, so these are not official crime rates. What counts as assault.

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