Bakersfield Homicide
Bakersfield · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2024, the latest complete year, Bakersfield police open data recorded 25 homicide incidents, 0.3% of all 9,789 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 6.0 per 100,000 residents, compared with 11.0 per 100,000 across the 56 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2024 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 11 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Bakersfield by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 11 | — | — |
| 2025 (partial year) | 20 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | 6.0 | — |
| 2023 (partial year) | 3 | — | — |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 59 homicide incidents.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Bakersfield in 2024?
25, according to Bakersfield Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Where does this data come from?
Source: Bakersfield 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 Bakersfield
- Bakersfield burglary 2,968 in 2024
- Bakersfield auto theft 2,681 in 2024
- Bakersfield theft 1,520 in 2024
- Bakersfield assault 965 in 2024
- Bakersfield other 539 in 2024
- Bakersfield robbery 519 in 2024
- Bakersfield theft from vehicle 429 in 2024
- Bakersfield sexual assault 96 in 2024
- Bakersfield bike theft 47 in 2024