Sexual assault in the US
Mapped from police open data · updated 2026-11-12
Across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with a complete 2025 year of police open data that list sexual assault, sexual assault ran at about 80.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, down 3.0% from 2024 in the 38 cities with both years complete. The list below ranks those cities by their own rate; the second list shows the largest archives.
Highest sexual assault rates per 100,000 (2025)
- 1. Tucson 207 per 100K · 1,145 incidents · AZ
- 2. Chandler 181 per 100K · 508 incidents · AZ
- 3. Colorado Springs 173 per 100K · 856 incidents · CO
- 4. Minneapolis 160 per 100K · 686 incidents · MN
- 5. Chattanooga 149 per 100K · 285 incidents · TN
- 6. Kansas City 146 per 100K · 752 incidents · MO
- 7. Baton Rouge 134 per 100K · 297 incidents · LA
- 8. Chicago 122 per 100K · 3,327 incidents · IL
- 9. Spokane 119 per 100K · 275 incidents · WA
- 10. Glendale 118 per 100K · 305 incidents · AZ
- 11. Charlottesville 116 per 100K · 52 incidents · VA
- 12. Peoria 114 per 100K · 127 incidents · IL
- 13. Buffalo 104 per 100K · 288 incidents · NY
- 14. Raleigh 98.0 per 100K · 490 incidents · NC
- 15. Milwaukee 97.4 per 100K · 549 incidents · WI
- 16. Norfolk 93.5 per 100K · 216 incidents · VA
- 17. Gainesville 90.8 per 100K · 135 incidents · FL
- 18. Durham 87.8 per 100K · 265 incidents · NC
- 19. Pittsburgh 84.8 per 100K · 261 incidents · PA
- 20. Baltimore 84.1 per 100K · 478 incidents · MD
Largest sexual assault archives
- 1. Chicago 48,543
- 2. Los Angeles 45,961
- 3. Austin 20,366
- 4. San Antonio 12,034
- 5. Colorado Springs 11,321
- 6. Tucson 11,210
- 7. New Orleans 10,357
- 8. Seattle 9,804
- 9. Oakland 8,591
- 10. Charlotte 7,491
- 11. Kansas City 7,441
- 12. Cincinnati 6,909
- 13. Montgomery County 6,347
- 14. Buffalo 6,344
- 15. Raleigh 5,951
- 16. San Diego 5,739
- 17. Minneapolis 5,659
- 18. Cleveland 4,788
- 19. Sonoma County 3,949
- 20. Chattanooga 3,675
- 21. Spokane 2,305
- 22. Baltimore 2,233
- 23. Chandler 2,181
- 24. Glendale 2,115
- 25. Virginia Beach 2,074
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 sexual assault.