Detroit Shooting
Detroit · Shooting · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Detroit police open data recorded 457 shooting incidents, 0.6% of all 78,473 incidents reported in the city that year and down 8.0% from 2024. That is about 70.8 per 100,000 residents, compared with 24.1 per 100,000 across the 7 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 389 shooting incidents have been published.
Shooting in Detroit by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 389 | — | — |
| 2025 | 457 | 70.8 | down 8.0% |
| 2024 | 497 | 77.0 | down 14.2% |
| 2023 | 579 | 89.7 | down 4.9% |
| 2022 | 609 | 94.3 | down 25.5% |
| 2021 | 817 | 127 | — |
| 2020 | 3 | 0.5 | — |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 3,353 shooting incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most shooting (2025)
- Franklin Park 11 incidents
- Greenfield 11 incidents
- Warrendale 10 incidents
- Cornerstone Village 10 incidents
- Barton-McFarland 10 incidents
- Dexter-Linwood 9 incidents
- Winship 9 incidents
- Mapleridge 9 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many shooting incidents were reported in Detroit in 2025?
457, according to Detroit Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is shooting going up or down in Detroit?
Reported shooting was down 8.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 25.0% 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
- Detroit assault 23,149 in 2025
- Detroit other 12,339 in 2025
- Detroit theft 11,567 in 2025
- Detroit vandalism 9,502 in 2025
- Detroit auto theft 6,652 in 2025
- Detroit theft from vehicle 5,160 in 2025
- Detroit burglary 4,423 in 2025
- Detroit fraud 3,729 in 2025
- Detroit robbery 1,147 in 2025
- Detroit sexual assault 180 in 2025
- Detroit homicide 168 in 2025