Seattle Theft

Seattle · Theft · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Seattle police open data recorded 12,322 theft incidents, 15.9% of all 77,299 incidents reported in the city that year and down 5.9% from 2024. That is about 1,578 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,637 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 9,835 theft incidents have been published.

Theft in Seattle by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)9,835——
202512,3221,578down 5.9%
202413,1011,677up 4.8%
202312,5051,601down 18.2%
202215,2911,958up 11.1%
202113,7631,762down 35.3%
202021,2732,724up 39.3%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 250,763 theft incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most theft (2025)

  1. Capitol Hill 952 incidents
  2. Northgate 711 incidents
  3. Slu/Cascade 710 incidents
  4. Downtown Commercial 642 incidents
  5. Roosevelt/Ravenna 641 incidents
  6. Queen Anne 608 incidents
  7. Ballard South 569 incidents
  8. Roxhill/Westwood/Arbor Heights 517 incidents

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

Questions

How many theft incidents were reported in Seattle in 2025?

12,322, according to Seattle Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is theft going up or down in Seattle?

Reported theft was down 5.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 19.4% 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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