Tacoma Homicide
Tacoma · Homicide · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Tacoma police open data recorded 18 homicide incidents, 0.1% of all 18,167 incidents reported in the city that year. That is about 7.9 per 100,000 residents, compared with 8.8 per 100,000 across the 59 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 18 homicide incidents have been published.
Homicide in Tacoma by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 18 | — | — |
| 2025 | 18 | 7.9 | — |
| 2024 | 20 | 8.8 | down 28.6% |
| 2023 | 28 | 12.3 | down 33.3% |
| 2022 | 42 | 18.4 | up 44.8% |
| 2021 | 29 | 12.7 | up 16.0% |
| 2020 | 25 | 11.0 | — |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 210 homicide incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most homicide (2025)
- Eastside Neighborhood Council 6 incidents
- New Tacoma Neighborhood Council 4 incidents
- South Tacoma Neighborhood Council 3 incidents
- South End Neighborhood Council 2 incidents
- Central Neighborhood Council 1 incident
- West End Neighborhood Council 1 incident
- North End Neighborhood Council 1 incident
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many homicide incidents were reported in Tacoma in 2025?
18, according to Tacoma Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
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 auto theft 1,791 in 2025
- Tacoma burglary 1,171 in 2025
- Tacoma fraud 745 in 2025
- Tacoma robbery 345 in 2025