Seattle Homicide

Seattle · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Seattle police open data recorded 30 homicide incidents, 0.0% of all 77,299 incidents reported in the city that year and down 42.3% from 2024. That is about 3.8 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, 23 homicide incidents have been published.

Homicide in Seattle by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)23——
2025303.8down 42.3%
2024526.7down 14.8%
2023617.8up 19.6%
2022516.5up 21.4%
2021425.4down 12.5%
2020486.1up 50.0%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 609 homicide incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)

  1. Northgate 3 incidents
  2. Sodo 3 incidents
  3. First Hill 2 incidents
  4. Pioneer Square 2 incidents
  5. Capitol Hill 2 incidents
  6. North Beacon Hill 2 incidents
  7. University 2 incidents
  8. Downtown Commercial 2 incidents

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

Questions

How many homicide incidents were reported in Seattle in 2025?

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

Is homicide going up or down in Seattle?

Reported homicide was down 42.3% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 41.2% compared with 2022 (falling 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.

Other crime types in Seattle

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