Asheville Fraud
Asheville · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Asheville police open data recorded 616 fraud incidents, 6.7% of all 9,149 incidents reported in the city that year and up 8.6% from 2024. That is about 648 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 515 fraud incidents have been published.
Fraud in Asheville by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 515 | — | — |
| 2025 | 616 | 648 | up 8.6% |
| 2024 | 567 | 597 | down 0.4% |
| 2023 | 569 | 599 | down 1.9% |
| 2022 | 580 | 611 | down 1.4% |
| 2021 | 588 | 619 | down 14.0% |
| 2020 | 684 | 720 | down 17.4% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 6,487 fraud incidents.
Questions
How many fraud incidents were reported in Asheville in 2025?
616, according to Asheville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is fraud going up or down in Asheville?
Reported fraud was up 8.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 6.2% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Asheville Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.
Other crime types in Asheville
- Asheville theft 3,605 in 2025
- Asheville other 3,186 in 2025
- Asheville assault 988 in 2025
- Asheville burglary 572 in 2025
- Asheville robbery 77 in 2025
- Asheville vandalism 58 in 2025
- Asheville theft from vehicle 35 in 2025
- Asheville sexual assault 10 in 2025
- Asheville homicide 2 in 2025