Detroit Homicide

Detroit · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Detroit police open data recorded 168 homicide incidents, 0.2% of all 78,473 incidents reported in the city that year and down 20.8% from 2024. That is about 26.0 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, 119 homicide incidents have been published.

Homicide in Detroit by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)119——
202516826.0down 20.8%
202421232.8down 12.4%
202324237.5down 18.8%
202229846.2up 6.4%
202128043.4down 7.3%
202030246.8up 12.3%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 2,402 homicide incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)

  1. Outer Drive-Hayes 6 incidents
  2. Mapleridge 6 incidents
  3. Regent Park 5 incidents
  4. Nolan 4 incidents
  5. College Park 4 incidents
  6. Morningside 4 incidents
  7. Cornerstone Village 4 incidents
  8. Greenfield 4 incidents

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

Questions

How many homicide incidents were reported in Detroit in 2025?

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

Is homicide going up or down in Detroit?

Reported homicide was down 20.8% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 43.6% compared with 2022 (falling 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.

Other crime types in Detroit

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