Seattle Robbery

Seattle · Robbery · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Seattle police open data recorded 1,452 robbery incidents, 1.9% of all 77,299 incidents reported in the city that year and down 15.6% from 2024. That is about 186 per 100,000 residents, compared with 136 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,169 robbery incidents have been published.

Robbery in Seattle by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,169——
20251,452186down 15.6%
20241,720220up 0.5%
20231,711219down 3.0%
20221,764226unchanged
20211,764226up 18.0%
20201,495191down 3.9%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 29,980 robbery incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most robbery (2025)

  1. Capitol Hill 142 incidents
  2. Downtown Commercial 123 incidents
  3. Northgate 102 incidents
  4. Chinatown/International District 70 incidents
  5. University 64 incidents
  6. Slu/Cascade 60 incidents
  7. Belltown 51 incidents
  8. First Hill 49 incidents

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

Questions

How many robbery incidents were reported in Seattle in 2025?

1,452, according to Seattle Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is robbery going up or down in Seattle?

Reported robbery was down 15.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 17.7% 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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