Detroit Robbery

Detroit · Robbery · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Detroit police open data recorded 1,147 robbery incidents, 1.5% of all 78,473 incidents reported in the city that year and down 10.4% from 2024. That is about 178 per 100,000 residents, compared with 136 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,021 robbery incidents have been published.

Robbery in Detroit by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,021——
20251,147178down 10.4%
20241,280198down 7.0%
20231,377213down 0.1%
20221,378213down 8.1%
20211,499232down 17.3%
20201,813281down 21.0%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 16,913 robbery incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most robbery (2025)

  1. Downtown 68 incidents
  2. Midtown 34 incidents
  3. Dexter-Linwood 32 incidents
  4. Oakman Blvd Community 26 incidents
  5. Warrendale 23 incidents
  6. Claytown 23 incidents
  7. Bethune Community 20 incidents
  8. Franklin Park 19 incidents

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

Questions

How many robbery incidents were reported in Detroit in 2025?

1,147, according to Detroit Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is robbery going up or down in Detroit?

Reported robbery was down 10.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 16.8% 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.

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