Buffalo Homicide

Buffalo · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Buffalo police open data recorded 29 homicide incidents, 0.2% of all 12,333 incidents reported in the city that year and down 31.0% from 2024. That is about 10.5 per 100,000 residents, compared with 8.8 per 100,000 across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 12 homicide incidents have been published.

Homicide in Buffalo by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)12——
20252910.5down 31.0%
20244215.2unchanged
20234215.2down 20.8%
20225319.2down 22.1%
20216824.6up 4.6%
20206523.5up 44.4%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,056 homicide incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)

  1. Pratt-Willert 4 incidents
  2. Black Rock 3 incidents
  3. Elmwood Bidwell 3 incidents
  4. Kenfield 3 incidents
  5. Riverside 2 incidents
  6. Genesee-Moselle 2 incidents
  7. North Park 1 incident
  8. Central 1 incident

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

Questions

How many homicide incidents were reported in Buffalo in 2025?

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

Is homicide going up or down in Buffalo?

Reported homicide was down 31.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 45.3% compared with 2022 (falling 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.

Other crime types in Buffalo

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