Memphis Fraud

Memphis · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Memphis police open data recorded 3,212 fraud incidents, 3.9% of all 82,890 incidents reported in the city that year and down 14.6% from 2024. That is about 526 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, 2,430 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Memphis by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)2,430——
20253,212526down 14.6%
20243,763616down 11.1%
20234,232693down 1.1%
20224,280701up 24.7%
20213,431562down 5.7%
20203,640596—

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 24,988 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Appling Farms Precinct 547 incidents
  2. Ridgeway Precinct 392 incidents
  3. Raines Precinct 377 incidents
  4. Tillman Precinct 365 incidents
  5. Mt Moriah Precinct 352 incidents
  6. Austin Peay Precinct 331 incidents
  7. Crump Precinct 330 incidents
  8. Airways Precinct 274 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Memphis in 2025?

3,212, according to Memphis Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Memphis?

Reported fraud was down 14.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 25.0% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Memphis 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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