Auto theft in the US

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

Across the 56 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with a complete 2025 year of police open data that list auto theft, auto theft ran at about 486 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 32.9% from 2024 in the 51 cities with both years complete. The list below ranks those cities by their own rate; the second list shows the largest archives.

Highest auto theft rates per 100,000 (2025)

  1. 1. St. Paul 1,907 per 100K · 5,864 incidents · MN
  2. 2. Oakland 1,525 per 100K · 6,766 incidents · CA
  3. 3. Kansas City 1,135 per 100K · 5,859 incidents · MO
  4. 4. Minneapolis 1,124 per 100K · 4,817 incidents · MN
  5. 5. Detroit 1,030 per 100K · 6,652 incidents · MI
  6. 6. Memphis 894 per 100K · 5,460 incidents · TN
  7. 7. Milwaukee 868 per 100K · 4,889 incidents · WI
  8. 8. Dallas 831 per 100K · 11,023 incidents · TX
  9. 9. Tacoma 785 per 100K · 1,791 incidents · WA
  10. 10. Richmond 743 per 100K · 857 incidents · CA
  11. 11. Seattle 743 per 100K · 5,799 incidents · WA
  12. 12. Baltimore 723 per 100K · 4,108 incidents · MD
  13. 13. Louisville 712 per 100K · 4,561 incidents · KY
  14. 14. Cincinnati 696 per 100K · 2,192 incidents · OH
  15. 15. Buffalo 657 per 100K · 1,816 incidents · NY
  16. 16. Chicago 639 per 100K · 17,389 incidents · IL
  17. 17. Charlotte 637 per 100K · 6,012 incidents · NC
  18. 18. Baton Rouge 606 per 100K · 1,339 incidents · LA
  19. 19. Indianapolis 537 per 100K · 4,787 incidents · IN
  20. 20. Nashville 537 per 100K · 3,785 incidents · TN

Largest auto theft archives

  1. 1. Los Angeles 275,745
  2. 2. Chicago 260,112
  3. 3. Oakland 181,288
  4. 4. Dallas 131,229
  5. 5. Seattle 93,980
  6. 6. Austin 71,567
  7. 7. Detroit 71,493
  8. 8. St. Paul 69,737
  9. 9. Atlanta 69,674
  10. 10. San Francisco 57,247
  11. 11. Kansas City 54,456
  12. 12. Memphis 53,672
  13. 13. Charlotte 43,309
  14. 14. Minneapolis 40,078
  15. 15. San Diego 36,294
  16. 16. Indianapolis 36,244
  17. 17. Buffalo 34,213
  18. 18. Aurora 28,835
  19. 19. Nashville 27,636
  20. 20. Colorado Springs 27,442
  21. 21. Baltimore 26,755
  22. 22. Tacoma 26,584
  23. 23. Fort Worth 25,627
  24. 24. Las Vegas 24,937
  25. 25. New Orleans 24,482

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 auto theft.

All crime statistics · Crime rate rankings

TheCrimeMaps.com
TheCrimeMaps.com