Seattle Sexual assault

Seattle · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Seattle police open data recorded 648 sexual assault incidents, 0.8% of all 77,299 incidents reported in the city that year and up 5.0% from 2024. That is about 83.0 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 601 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Seattle by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)601——
202564883.0up 5.0%
202461779.0down 0.5%
202362079.4up 6.7%
202258174.4up 6.0%
202154870.2up 3.0%
202053268.1down 25.4%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 9,804 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Downtown Commercial 52 incidents
  2. Capitol Hill 51 incidents
  3. Slu/Cascade 47 incidents
  4. First Hill 41 incidents
  5. Chinatown/International District 40 incidents
  6. Northgate 39 incidents
  7. Belltown 26 incidents
  8. Queen Anne 24 incidents

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

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Seattle in 2025?

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

Is sexual assault going up or down in Seattle?

Reported sexual assault was up 5.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 11.5% 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.

Other crime types in Seattle

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