Fraud in the US

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

Across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with a complete 2025 year of police open data that list fraud, fraud ran at about 309 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 5.9% from 2024 in the 53 cities with both years complete. The list below ranks those cities by their own rate; the second list shows the largest archives.

Highest fraud rates per 100,000 (2025)

  1. 1. Lincoln 823 per 100K · 2,475 incidents · NE
  2. 2. Asheville 648 per 100K · 616 incidents · NC
  3. 3. Spokane 647 per 100K · 1,492 incidents · WA
  4. 4. San Francisco 583 per 100K · 4,825 incidents · CA
  5. 5. Nashville 579 per 100K · 4,080 incidents · TN
  6. 6. Chicago 579 per 100K · 15,746 incidents · IL
  7. 7. Detroit 578 per 100K · 3,729 incidents · MI
  8. 8. Fayetteville 565 per 100K · 1,184 incidents · NC
  9. 9. Durham 557 per 100K · 1,681 incidents · NC
  10. 10. Chattanooga 546 per 100K · 1,045 incidents · TN
  11. 11. Athens 541 per 100K · 696 incidents · GA
  12. 12. Atlanta 531 per 100K · 2,760 incidents · GA
  13. 13. Memphis 526 per 100K · 3,212 incidents · TN
  14. 14. Evansville 506 per 100K · 584 incidents · IN
  15. 15. Baton Rouge 499 per 100K · 1,103 incidents · LA
  16. 16. Des Moines 470 per 100K · 1,001 incidents · IA
  17. 17. Louisville 467 per 100K · 2,995 incidents · KY
  18. 18. Omaha 454 per 100K · 2,223 incidents · NE
  19. 19. Indianapolis 453 per 100K · 4,034 incidents · IN
  20. 20. Raleigh 418 per 100K · 2,087 incidents · NC

Largest fraud archives

  1. 1. Chicago 283,997
  2. 2. Austin 60,162
  3. 3. Seattle 56,441
  4. 4. Detroit 46,427
  5. 5. San Francisco 46,294
  6. 6. Los Angeles 35,621
  7. 7. Charlotte 34,446
  8. 8. Fayetteville 33,714
  9. 9. Nashville 33,579
  10. 10. Indianapolis 31,696
  11. 11. Dallas 29,574
  12. 12. Raleigh 28,882
  13. 13. Oakland 28,696
  14. 14. Memphis 24,988
  15. 15. Montgomery County 24,801
  16. 16. Skagit County 22,864
  17. 17. Tucson 18,178
  18. 18. New Castle County 17,128
  19. 19. Jacksonville 17,103
  20. 20. Atlanta 15,937
  21. 21. Kansas City 15,869
  22. 22. Spokane 14,895
  23. 23. Chattanooga 14,493
  24. 24. King County 14,483
  25. 25. Fort Worth 14,140

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 fraud.

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