Dallas Homicide
Dallas · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Dallas police open data recorded 71 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 95,405 incidents reported in the city that year and down 13.4% from 2024. That is about 5.4 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, 65 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Dallas by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 65 | — | — |
| 2025 | 71 | 5.4 | down 13.4% |
| 2024 | 82 | 6.2 | down 17.2% |
| 2023 | 99 | 7.5 | up 8.8% |
| 2022 | 91 | 6.9 | up 13.8% |
| 2021 | 80 | 6.0 | down 14.9% |
| 2020 | 94 | 7.1 | up 19.0% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,086 homicide incidents.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Dallas in 2025?
71, according to Dallas Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is homicide going up or down in Dallas?
Reported homicide was down 13.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 22.0% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Dallas 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 Dallas
- Dallas other 36,690 in 2025
- Dallas theft 15,343 in 2025
- Dallas auto theft 11,023 in 2025
- Dallas theft from vehicle 10,939 in 2025
- Dallas vandalism 6,592 in 2025
- Dallas burglary 5,673 in 2025
- Dallas assault 5,052 in 2025
- Dallas fraud 2,159 in 2025
- Dallas robbery 1,861 in 2025
- Dallas sexual assault 2 in 2025