Tacoma Auto theft
Tacoma · Auto theft · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Tacoma police open data recorded 1,791 auto theft incidents, 9.9% of all 18,167 incidents reported in the city that year and down 40.2% from 2024. That is about 785 per 100,000 residents, compared with 486 per 100,000 across the 56 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,226 auto theft incidents have been published.
Auto theft in Tacoma by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 1,226 | — | — |
| 2025 | 1,791 | 785 | down 40.2% |
| 2024 | 2,994 | 1,312 | down 51.1% |
| 2023 | 6,126 | 2,684 | up 10.8% |
| 2022 | 5,528 | 2,422 | up 58.3% |
| 2021 | 3,493 | 1,531 | up 69.2% |
| 2020 | 2,065 | 905 | up 28.5% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 26,584 auto theft incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most auto theft (2025)
- New Tacoma Neighborhood Council 404 incidents
- South End Neighborhood Council 302 incidents
- South Tacoma Neighborhood Council 273 incidents
- Eastside Neighborhood Council 209 incidents
- Central Neighborhood Council 205 incidents
- North End Neighborhood Council 186 incidents
- West End Neighborhood Council 122 incidents
- Northeast Tacoma Neighborhood Council 75 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many auto theft incidents were reported in Tacoma in 2025?
1,791, according to Tacoma Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is auto theft going up or down in Tacoma?
Reported auto theft was down 40.2% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 67.6% 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 assault 1,956 in 2025
- Tacoma burglary 1,171 in 2025
- Tacoma fraud 745 in 2025
- Tacoma robbery 345 in 2025
- Tacoma homicide 18 in 2025