Richmond Homicide
Richmond · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Richmond police open data recorded 6 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 6,394 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 5.2 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, 5 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Richmond by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 5 | — | — |
| 2025 | 6 | 5.2 | — |
| 2024 | 9 | 7.8 | — |
| 2023 | 7 | 6.1 | — |
| 2022 | 15 | 13.0 | — |
| 2021 | 14 | 12.1 | — |
| 2020 | 17 | 14.7 | — |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 127 homicide incidents.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Richmond in 2025?
6, according to Richmond Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Where does this data come from?
Source: Richmond 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 Richmond
- Richmond other 2,104 in 2025
- Richmond auto theft 857 in 2025
- Richmond theft 824 in 2025
- Richmond assault 722 in 2025
- Richmond vandalism 613 in 2025
- Richmond burglary 606 in 2025
- Richmond theft from vehicle 243 in 2025
- Richmond robbery 216 in 2025
- Richmond fraud 131 in 2025
- Richmond sexual assault 71 in 2025
- Richmond bike theft 1 in 2025