Burglary in the US
Mapped from police open data · updated 2026-11-12
Across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with a complete 2025 year of police open data that list burglary, burglary ran at about 412 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 14.2% from 2024 in the 54 cities with both years complete. The list below ranks those cities by their own rate; the second list shows the largest archives.
Highest burglary rates per 100,000 (2025)
- 1. Oakland 2,006 per 100K · 8,897 incidents · CA
- 2. Nashville 1,195 per 100K · 8,422 incidents · TN
- 3. Seattle 983 per 100K · 7,679 incidents · WA
- 4. Baton Rouge 856 per 100K · 1,891 incidents · LA
- 5. Memphis 693 per 100K · 4,234 incidents · TN
- 6. Detroit 685 per 100K · 4,423 incidents · MI
- 7. Asheville 602 per 100K · 572 incidents · NC
- 8. Denver 572 per 100K · 4,173 incidents · CO
- 9. Cincinnati 549 per 100K · 1,729 incidents · OH
- 10. San Francisco 540 per 100K · 4,471 incidents · CA
- 11. Spokane 538 per 100K · 1,241 incidents · WA
- 12. Minneapolis 536 per 100K · 2,299 incidents · MN
- 13. Richmond 525 per 100K · 606 incidents · CA
- 14. Kansas City 520 per 100K · 2,684 incidents · MO
- 15. Tacoma 513 per 100K · 1,171 incidents · WA
- 16. Baltimore 483 per 100K · 2,742 incidents · MD
- 17. Louisville 482 per 100K · 3,086 incidents · KY
- 18. St. Paul 473 per 100K · 1,455 incidents · MN
- 19. Peoria 461 per 100K · 515 incidents · IL
- 20. Buffalo 460 per 100K · 1,273 incidents · NY
Largest burglary archives
- 1. Los Angeles 247,969
- 2. Chicago 239,622
- 3. Oakland 232,199
- 4. San Antonio 172,787
- 5. Austin 152,101
- 6. Seattle 146,418
- 7. Dallas 99,453
- 8. Atlanta 71,406
- 9. Nashville 71,153
- 10. Cincinnati 66,839
- 11. New Orleans 63,405
- 12. Buffalo 58,817
- 13. Fort Worth 57,316
- 14. San Francisco 56,849
- 15. Detroit 53,088
- 16. Charlotte 38,948
- 17. Memphis 35,255
- 18. Fayetteville 34,561
- 19. Stockton 31,047
- 20. Kansas City 29,891
- 21. Indianapolis 28,127
- 22. Denver 27,581
- 23. Las Vegas 26,459
- 24. Colorado Springs 25,220
- 25. Sonoma County 24,630
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 burglary.