Buffalo Sexual assault

Buffalo · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Buffalo police open data recorded 288 sexual assault incidents, 2.3% of all 12,333 incidents reported in the city that year and down 3.0% from 2024. That is about 104 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, 215 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Buffalo by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)215——
2025288104down 3.0%
2024297107up 17.4%
202325391.5up 32.5%
202219169.0down 27.4%
202126395.1up 174.0%
20209634.7down 67.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 6,344 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Central 24 incidents
  2. Delavan Grider 21 incidents
  3. Kensington-Bailey 14 incidents
  4. Fruit Belt 12 incidents
  5. South Park 12 incidents
  6. Broadway Fillmore 12 incidents
  7. West Hertel 11 incidents
  8. Hopkins-Tifft 10 incidents

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

Questions

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

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

Is sexual assault going up or down in Buffalo?

Reported sexual assault was down 3.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 50.8% 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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