Oakland Homicide
Oakland · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Oakland police open data recorded 53 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 49,064 incidents reported in the city that year and down 15.9% from 2024. That is about 11.9 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, 39 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Oakland by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 39 | — | — |
| 2025 | 53 | 11.9 | down 15.9% |
| 2024 | 63 | 14.2 | down 34.4% |
| 2023 | 96 | 21.6 | down 6.8% |
| 2022 | 103 | 23.2 | up 5.1% |
| 2021 | 98 | 22.1 | up 15.3% |
| 2020 | 85 | 19.2 | up 30.8% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,642 homicide incidents.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Oakland in 2025?
53, according to Oakland Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is homicide going up or down in Oakland?
Reported homicide was down 15.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 48.5% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Oakland 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 Oakland
- Oakland other 13,457 in 2025
- Oakland theft 8,903 in 2025
- Oakland burglary 8,897 in 2025
- Oakland auto theft 6,766 in 2025
- Oakland assault 4,688 in 2025
- Oakland vandalism 3,539 in 2025
- Oakland robbery 1,592 in 2025
- Oakland fraud 791 in 2025
- Oakland sexual assault 372 in 2025
- Oakland theft from vehicle 5 in 2025
- Oakland bike theft 1 in 2025