Homicide 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 homicide, homicide ran at about 8.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 18.8% 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 homicide rates per 100,000 (2025)
- 1. Memphis 29.1 per 100K · 178 incidents · TN
- 2. Detroit 26.0 per 100K · 168 incidents · MI
- 3. Baton Rouge 24.0 per 100K · 53 incidents · LA
- 4. Kansas City 23.8 per 100K · 123 incidents · MO
- 5. Baltimore 19.4 per 100K · 110 incidents · MD
- 6. Milwaukee 19.0 per 100K · 107 incidents · WI
- 7. Atlanta 18.7 per 100K · 97 incidents · GA
- 8. Louisville 16.5 per 100K · 106 incidents · KY
- 9. Chicago 16.1 per 100K · 437 incidents · IL
- 10. Cincinnati 15.6 per 100K · 49 incidents · OH
- 11. Fayetteville 14.8 per 100K · 31 incidents · NC
- 12. Indianapolis 14.6 per 100K · 130 incidents · IN
- 13. Oakland 11.9 per 100K · 53 incidents · CA
- 14. Norfolk 11.3 per 100K · 26 incidents · VA
- 15. Pittsburgh 10.7 per 100K · 33 incidents · PA
- 16. Buffalo 10.5 per 100K · 29 incidents · NY
- 17. Gresham 9.9 per 100K · 11 incidents · OR
- 18. Tucson 9.4 per 100K · 52 incidents · AZ
- 19. Charlotte 9.3 per 100K · 88 incidents · NC
- 20. Tacoma 7.9 per 100K · 18 incidents · WA
Largest homicide archives
- 1. Chicago 9,694
- 2. Los Angeles 5,002
- 3. Detroit 2,402
- 4. New Orleans 1,835
- 5. Rochester 1,794
- 6. Atlanta 1,775
- 7. Memphis 1,663
- 8. Oakland 1,642
- 9. Cincinnati 1,485
- 10. Kansas City 1,305
- 11. Indianapolis 1,166
- 12. Dallas 1,086
- 13. Buffalo 1,056
- 14. Austin 972
- 15. Charlotte 867
- 16. Baltimore 757
- 17. Seattle 609
- 18. Fort Worth 573
- 19. Jacksonville 532
- 20. Tucson 506
- 21. Baton Rouge 459
- 22. Fayetteville 430
- 23. San Diego 362
- 24. Denver 359
- 25. Stockton 325
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 homicide.