Tacoma Fraud

Tacoma · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Tacoma police open data recorded 745 fraud incidents, 4.1% of all 18,167 incidents reported in the city that year and down 6.9% from 2024. That is about 326 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 644 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Tacoma by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)644——
2025745326down 6.9%
2024800351up 2.3%
2023782343down 20.4%
2022982430up 1.7%
2021966423down 44.3%
20201,733759up 8.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 9,779 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. South Tacoma Neighborhood Council 151 incidents
  2. South End Neighborhood Council 130 incidents
  3. New Tacoma Neighborhood Council 122 incidents
  4. Eastside Neighborhood Council 93 incidents
  5. West End Neighborhood Council 82 incidents
  6. Central Neighborhood Council 76 incidents
  7. North End Neighborhood Council 53 incidents
  8. Northeast Tacoma Neighborhood Council 34 incidents

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

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Tacoma in 2025?

745, according to Tacoma Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Tacoma?

Reported fraud was down 6.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 24.1% 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.

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