Seattle Fraud

Seattle · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Seattle police open data recorded 2,258 fraud incidents, 2.9% of all 77,299 incidents reported in the city that year and up 2.6% from 2024. That is about 289 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, 1,628 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Seattle by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,628——
20252,258289up 2.6%
20242,201282down 3.3%
20232,276291up 6.8%
20222,132273up 1.9%
20212,092268down 13.3%
20202,413309down 25.1%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 56,441 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Capitol Hill 182 incidents
  2. Downtown Commercial 150 incidents
  3. Queen Anne 126 incidents
  4. Northgate 119 incidents
  5. Slu/Cascade 107 incidents
  6. Sodo 90 incidents
  7. Ballard South 83 incidents
  8. Lakecity 76 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Seattle in 2025?

2,258, according to Seattle Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Seattle?

Reported fraud was up 2.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 5.9% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Seattle 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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