Tacoma Assault
Tacoma · Assault · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Tacoma police open data recorded 1,956 assault incidents, 10.8% of all 18,167 incidents reported in the city that year and down 10.6% from 2024. That is about 857 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,325 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,690 assault incidents have been published.
Assault in Tacoma by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 1,690 | — | — |
| 2025 | 1,956 | 857 | down 10.6% |
| 2024 | 2,189 | 959 | down 8.3% |
| 2023 | 2,386 | 1,046 | down 13.6% |
| 2022 | 2,763 | 1,211 | up 18.1% |
| 2021 | 2,339 | 1,025 | up 35.6% |
| 2020 | 1,725 | 756 | down 5.1% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 18,611 assault incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most assault (2025)
- New Tacoma Neighborhood Council 484 incidents
- South End Neighborhood Council 405 incidents
- South Tacoma Neighborhood Council 307 incidents
- Central Neighborhood Council 253 incidents
- Eastside Neighborhood Council 211 incidents
- West End Neighborhood Council 162 incidents
- North End Neighborhood Council 82 incidents
- Northeast Tacoma Neighborhood Council 26 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many assault incidents were reported in Tacoma in 2025?
1,956, according to Tacoma Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is assault going up or down in Tacoma?
Reported assault was down 10.6% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 29.2% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Tacoma 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 Tacoma
- Tacoma theft 6,402 in 2025
- Tacoma vandalism 3,631 in 2025
- Tacoma other 2,108 in 2025
- Tacoma auto theft 1,791 in 2025
- Tacoma burglary 1,171 in 2025
- Tacoma fraud 745 in 2025
- Tacoma robbery 345 in 2025
- Tacoma homicide 18 in 2025