Buffalo Burglary

Buffalo · Burglary · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Buffalo police open data recorded 1,273 burglary incidents, 10.3% of all 12,333 incidents reported in the city that year and down 7.7% from 2024. That is about 460 per 100,000 residents, compared with 412 per 100,000 across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 763 burglary incidents have been published.

Burglary in Buffalo by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)763——
20251,273460down 7.7%
20241,379499down 1.4%
20231,398505up 10.6%
20221,264457down 6.6%
20211,354489down 15.6%
20201,604580down 14.1%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 58,817 burglary incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most burglary (2025)

  1. Broadway Fillmore 89 incidents
  2. Riverside 68 incidents
  3. Kensington-Bailey 59 incidents
  4. Elmwood Bryant 54 incidents
  5. West Side 52 incidents
  6. Elmwood Bidwell 52 incidents
  7. Upper West Side 52 incidents
  8. Genesee-Moselle 51 incidents

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

Questions

How many burglary incidents were reported in Buffalo in 2025?

1,273, according to Buffalo Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is burglary going up or down in Buffalo?

Reported burglary was down 7.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 0.7% compared with 2022 (roughly flat 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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