Bike theft in the US
Mapped from police open data · updated 2026-11-12
Across the 12 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with a complete 2025 year of police open data that list bike theft, bike theft ran at about 35.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 44.4% from 2024 in the 12 cities with both years complete. The list below ranks those cities by their own rate; the second list shows the largest archives.
Highest bike theft rates per 100,000 (2025)
- 1. Cambridge 346 per 100K · 419 incidents · MA
- 2. Gainesville 110 per 100K · 164 incidents · FL
- 3. Austin 98.7 per 100K · 981 incidents · TX
- 4. Tucson 89.9 per 100K · 498 incidents · AZ
- 5. Boston 80.9 per 100K · 545 incidents · MA
- 6. Norfolk 39.4 per 100K · 91 incidents · VA
- 7. Gresham 27.8 per 100K · 31 incidents · OR
- 8. Fayetteville 19.6 per 100K · 41 incidents · NC
- 9. Nashville 7.7 per 100K · 54 incidents · TN
- 10. Los Angeles 2.4 per 100K · 95 incidents · CA
- 11. St. Paul 2.0 per 100K · 6 incidents · MN
Largest bike theft archives
- 1. Austin 26,694
- 2. Los Angeles 25,623
- 3. Cambridge 7,458
- 4. Tucson 5,938
- 5. Gainesville 4,880
- 6. Skagit County 2,524
- 7. Boston 2,327
- 8. St. Paul 1,792
- 9. New Orleans 1,344
- 10. Fayetteville 1,011
- 11. Riverside 870
- 12. Norfolk 610
- 13. Glendale 558
- 14. Nashville 552
- 15. Stockton 465
- 16. Gresham 180
- 17. Bakersfield 166
- 18. St. Louis County 165
- 19. Kansas City 163
- 20. San Jose 73
- 21. Mesa 34
- 22. Birmingham 30
- 23. Houston 29
- 24. Colorado Springs 13
- 25. Richmond 9
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 bike theft.