Atlanta Sexual assault

Atlanta · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Atlanta police open data recorded 363 sexual assault incidents, 0.6% of all 64,793 incidents reported in the city that year and up 9.7% from 2024. That is about 69.8 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 179 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Atlanta by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)179——
202536369.8up 9.7%
202433163.6up 6.1%
202331260.0down 14.0%
202236369.8up 12.0%
202132462.3—
2020 (partial year)———

— : the police feed published no sexual assault incidents that year (usually a change in how it labels offenses), so the count is unknown rather than zero.

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,872 sexual assault incidents.

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Atlanta in 2025?

363, according to Atlanta Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is sexual assault going up or down in Atlanta?

Reported sexual assault was up 9.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and unchanged compared with 2022 (roughly flat over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Atlanta 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.

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