Seattle Theft from vehicle
Seattle · Theft from vehicle · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Seattle police open data recorded 11,718 theft from vehicle incidents, 15.2% of all 77,299 incidents reported in the city that year and down 9.1% from 2024. That is about 1,500 per 100,000 residents, compared with 634 per 100,000 across the 46 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 9,382 theft from vehicle incidents have been published.
Theft from vehicle in Seattle by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 9,382 | — | — |
| 2025 | 11,718 | 1,500 | down 9.1% |
| 2024 | 12,889 | 1,650 | up 6.5% |
| 2023 | 12,108 | 1,550 | down 22.2% |
| 2022 | 15,570 | 1,994 | up 3.1% |
| 2021 | 15,099 | 1,933 | up 21.9% |
| 2020 | 12,389 | 1,586 | up 1.6% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 246,445 theft from vehicle incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most theft from vehicle (2025)
- Queen Anne 1,007 incidents
- Capitol Hill 685 incidents
- Downtown Commercial 560 incidents
- Slu/Cascade 552 incidents
- Roosevelt/Ravenna 525 incidents
- University 512 incidents
- Northgate 501 incidents
- Ballard South 485 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many theft from vehicle incidents were reported in Seattle in 2025?
11,718, according to Seattle Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is theft from vehicle going up or down in Seattle?
Reported theft from vehicle was down 9.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 24.7% 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
- Seattle other 21,274 in 2025
- Seattle theft 12,322 in 2025
- Seattle assault 7,707 in 2025
- Seattle burglary 7,679 in 2025
- Seattle vandalism 6,412 in 2025
- Seattle auto theft 5,799 in 2025
- Seattle fraud 2,258 in 2025
- Seattle robbery 1,452 in 2025
- Seattle sexual assault 648 in 2025
- Seattle homicide 30 in 2025