Chattanooga Homicide
Chattanooga · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Chattanooga police open data recorded 12 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 20,245 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 6.3 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, 5 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Chattanooga by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 5 | — | — |
| 2025 | 12 | 6.3 | — |
| 2024 | 19 | 9.9 | — |
| 2023 | 29 | 15.1 | up 45.0% |
| 2022 | 20 | 10.4 | down 28.6% |
| 2021 | 28 | 14.6 | unchanged |
| 2020 | 28 | 14.6 | down 3.4% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 250 homicide incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)
- Boyce Station 1 incident
- Clifton Hills 1 incident
- Missionary Rdge 1 incident
- Glenwood 1 incident
- Cherokee Woods 1 incident
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Chattanooga in 2025?
12, according to Chattanooga Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Where does this data come from?
Source: Chattanooga 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 Chattanooga
- Chattanooga other 7,335 in 2025
- Chattanooga theft 3,747 in 2025
- Chattanooga assault 3,355 in 2025
- Chattanooga vandalism 1,525 in 2025
- Chattanooga theft from vehicle 1,465 in 2025
- Chattanooga fraud 1,045 in 2025
- Chattanooga auto theft 747 in 2025
- Chattanooga burglary 595 in 2025
- Chattanooga sexual assault 285 in 2025
- Chattanooga robbery 134 in 2025