Buffalo Assault

Buffalo · Assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Buffalo police open data recorded 2,208 assault incidents, 17.9% of all 12,333 incidents reported in the city that year and down 7.6% from 2024. That is about 798 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,325 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,393 assault incidents have been published.

Assault in Buffalo by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,393——
20252,208798down 7.6%
20242,390864up 9.3%
20232,186790up 28.0%
20221,708617down 33.7%
20212,575931up 4.9%
20202,455888down 23.1%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 67,157 assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most assault (2025)

  1. Broadway Fillmore 145 incidents
  2. Central 127 incidents
  3. Delavan Grider 112 incidents
  4. Schiller Park 93 incidents
  5. Kensington-Bailey 93 incidents
  6. Genesee-Moselle 87 incidents
  7. Riverside 81 incidents
  8. Lower West Side 79 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many assault incidents were reported in Buffalo in 2025?

2,208, according to Buffalo Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is assault going up or down in Buffalo?

Reported assault was down 7.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 29.3% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Buffalo 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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