Detroit Fraud

Detroit · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Detroit police open data recorded 3,729 fraud incidents, 4.8% of all 78,473 incidents reported in the city that year and down 12.7% from 2024. That is about 578 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 3,085 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Detroit by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)3,085——
20253,729578down 12.7%
20244,271661up 11.6%
20233,828593up 15.8%
20223,306512down 7.2%
20213,561551down 29.2%
20205,027779down 18.0%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 46,427 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Downtown 141 incidents
  2. Franklin Park 90 incidents
  3. Midtown 71 incidents
  4. Oakman Blvd Community 70 incidents
  5. Claytown 63 incidents
  6. Dexter-Linwood 62 incidents
  7. New Center 61 incidents
  8. Regent Park 60 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Detroit in 2025?

3,729, according to Detroit Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Detroit?

Reported fraud was down 12.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 12.8% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Detroit 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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