Fayetteville Homicide
Fayetteville · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Fayetteville police open data recorded 31 homicide incidents, 0.2% of all 14,436 incidents reported in the city that year and up 40.9% from 2024. That is about 14.8 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, 17 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Fayetteville by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 17 | — | — |
| 2025 | 31 | 14.8 | up 40.9% |
| 2024 | 22 | 10.5 | down 40.5% |
| 2023 | 37 | 17.7 | up 12.1% |
| 2022 | 33 | 15.8 | down 23.3% |
| 2021 | 43 | 20.5 | up 59.3% |
| 2020 | 27 | 12.9 | up 17.4% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 430 homicide incidents.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Fayetteville in 2025?
31, according to Fayetteville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is homicide going up or down in Fayetteville?
Reported homicide was up 40.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 6.1% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville
- Fayetteville theft 3,912 in 2025
- Fayetteville other 2,874 in 2025
- Fayetteville assault 2,413 in 2025
- Fayetteville vandalism 1,289 in 2025
- Fayetteville fraud 1,184 in 2025
- Fayetteville theft from vehicle 998 in 2025
- Fayetteville burglary 762 in 2025
- Fayetteville auto theft 699 in 2025
- Fayetteville robbery 222 in 2025
- Fayetteville bike theft 41 in 2025
- Fayetteville sexual assault 11 in 2025