Mesa Crime Map
Arizona · December 2022 · updated 2026-11-12
| December 2022 | 2,185 incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 (full year) | 29,974 incidents |
| Full archive | 29,974 incidents (2022–2022) |
| Per 100K / year | 5,796 |
Source: Mesa Police Department open data. ⚠ feed frozen since 2022-12-31
About crime in Mesa
Latest available snapshot. Mesa has 2,185 incidents for December 2022. Counts reflect the source coverage published for this city.
2022 category breakdown
| Other | 13,356 |
| Theft | 4,576 |
| Assault | 4,089 |
| Burglary | 1,940 |
| Vandalism | 1,917 |
| Theft from vehicle | 1,482 |
| Fraud | 1,159 |
| Auto theft | 1,141 |
Across 2022, the current archive contains 29,974 incidents for Mesa. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.
Mesa crime overview
Essay updated 2026-11-11 · figures above are from the latest data
TL;DR. Mesa recorded 29,979 police-reported incidents in 2022, according to Mesa Police Department data through December 2022. Other was the most common category with 13,356 incidents, or 44.6% of the total, followed by Theft with 4,576 incidents and Assault with 4,089 incidents. Violent-category incidents totaled 4,374, or 14.6% of all reports, at a rate of 5,797 reported incidents per 100,000 residents using Census 2024 population estimates.
About this data
TheCrimeMaps plots police-reported incidents in Mesa, Arizona, using open data from the Mesa Police Department. The map shows where officers recorded incidents during calendar year 2022, which includes 12 months of data. Points cover categories such as Theft, Assault and Burglary, alongside an Other group that includes Other crime, Drugs, Impaired & dangerous driving, Threats, Harassment and Weapons offenses.
In 2022, Mesa recorded 29,979 police-reported incidents. That equals 5,797 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2022, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 517,151 for the city. Violent incidents, counted as assault plus sexual assault plus robbery plus shooting plus homicide in 2022, totaled 4,374, or 14.6% of the total and 845.8 reported incidents per 100,000 residents. Data run through December 2022.
Recent trend
The archive for Mesa currently contains a single complete year. In 2022, Mesa Police Department data show 29,979 police-reported incidents across 12 months, with data through December 2022. With only 2022 in the year series, there is no second complete year to support an annual change calculation, and no same-month comparison is provided. The all-years archive total is also 29,979, spanning 2022 to 2022 with zero undated incidents. No annual change is shown because a second complete year is not present in the archive.
Category breakdown
Other accounted for 13,356 incidents, or 44.6% of the 2022 total, making it the largest grouping. Within Other, Other crime contributed 6,918 incidents, or 23.1% of the total, followed by Drugs at 4,319 incidents, or 14.4%. Theft was next at 4,576 incidents, or 15.3%, while Assault totaled 4,089 incidents, or 13.6%. Burglary added 1,940 incidents, or 6.5%, Vandalism added 1,917 incidents, or 6.4%, and Theft from vehicle added 1,482 incidents, or 4.9%. The remainder of Other comprised Impaired & dangerous driving with 775 incidents, or 2.6%, Threats with 729 incidents, or 2.4%, Harassment with 325 incidents, or 1.1%, and Weapons offenses with 290 incidents, or 1.0%.
What this means
Mesa’s 2022 record centers on 29,979 incidents, with the ranking led by Other at 13,356 incidents, or 44.6%. Theft follows at 4,576 incidents, or 15.3%, just above Assault at 4,089 incidents, or 13.6%. The next tier includes Burglary at 1,940 incidents, or 6.5%, and Vandalism at 1,917 incidents, or 6.4%. Theft from vehicle adds 1,482 incidents, or 4.9%. With only 2022 at 29,979 in the series, the shape for this year is a broad Other group plus theft and assault as the main specified categories.
FAQ
How many police-reported incidents were there in Mesa in 2022?
Mesa had 29,979 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2022, covering 12 months of data. That equals 5,797 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2022, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 517,151 for the city. The violent total, defined as assault plus sexual assault, robbery, shooting and homicide, was 4,374 incidents, or 14.6% of the 2022 total.
What type of incident was reported most often in Mesa in 2022?
Other was the largest category in 2022 with 13,356 incidents, or 44.6% of the 29,979 total. In this release Other groups other crime with 6,918 incidents, drugs with 4,319 incidents, impaired and dangerous driving with 775 incidents, threats with 729 incidents, harassment with 325 incidents and weapons offenses with 290 incidents. The next most-reported categories were theft with 4,576 incidents and assault with 4,089 incidents.
Is crime in Mesa going up or down?
A year-over-year change cannot be calculated from this release because the archive contains only 2022, with 29,979 incidents in 12 months of data. That year is marked complete, and no partial years are listed for comparison. The all-years total is also 29,979, covering 2022 to 2022, so readers should use the 2022 count on its own rather than as part of a trend.
Which Mesa neighborhoods had the most reported incidents in 2022?
This Mesa release does not rank any named neighborhoods by incidents in 2022, with a neighborhood count of 0. The citywide total for 2022 was 29,979 incidents, but the data provided does not break that total into neighborhood counts or shares. Without ranked neighborhood counts for 2022, block- and area-level comparisons cannot be made from the figures in this release.
Where do the Mesa crime numbers come from?
The figures come from the Mesa Police Department, the upstream open-data source for this page. That source accounts for the 29,979 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2022, including 4,576 thefts, 4,089 assaults and 1,940 burglaries. Categories and totals reflect police reporting in 2022, with the Other breakdown listing other crime, drugs, impaired and dangerous driving, threats, harassment and weapons offenses.
How up to date is the Mesa crime data?
The data runs through December 2022, and the 2022 period includes 12 months of data. The headline total of 29,979 incidents describes calendar year 2022 only, not later months. The all-years archive total is also 29,979, covering 2022 to 2022 with 0 undated incidents, so there are no newer months in this release to extend the series beyond December 2022.
Explore Mesa
By category
- Mesa Assault (4,089)
- Mesa Sexual assault (4)
- Mesa Robbery (276)
- Mesa Burglary (1,940)
- Mesa Auto theft (1,141)
- Mesa Theft from vehicle (1,482)
- Mesa Theft (4,576)
- Mesa Bike theft (34)
- Mesa Vandalism (1,917)
- Mesa Fraud (1,159)
- Mesa Other (13,356)
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Neighborhoods
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