Tempe Crime Map

Arizona · Latest 24h · updated 2026-11-12

Latest 24h	1 incident (2026-11-12)
2026 YTD	14,355 911 calls through October
2025 (full year)	18,639 911 calls
Full archive	95,254 incidents (2022–2026)

Tempe’s 2025 and 2026 data is 911 calls for service (reports of possible crimes), not crime reports, so it has no crime rate and stays out of the rankings.

Source: Tempe Police Department 911 calls open data.

About crime in Tempe

Latest mapped day. Tempe recorded 1 incident on 2026-11-12. This is a short-window snapshot of police open data, not a personal-safety score.

Year-over-year context

Tempe recorded 19,283 incidents in 2024 and 18,639 in 2025, a 3.3% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.

Latest 24h (2026-11-12) category breakdown

Theft

Across 2022–2026, the current archive contains 95,254 incidents for Tempe. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.

Tempe crime overview

Essay updated 2026-11-12 · figures above are from the latest data

TL;DR. Tempe recorded 18,639 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, with Other as the leading category at 7,192 incidents, or 38.6% of the total. Theft followed with 4,584 incidents. Violent-category incidents totaled 2,401. Reported incidents fell 3.3% from 19,283 in 2024. Data covers 12 months of 2025 and is current through November 2026, sourced from Tempe Police Department 911 calls, with Maple Ash leading named neighborhoods at 346 incidents.

About this data

TheCrimeMaps shows police-reported incidents in Tempe, Arizona, drawn from Tempe Police Department 911 calls. The map places each 2025 report by location, allowing readers to explore patterns across the city's 190 named neighborhoods. Data are current through November 2026, and the archive covers 2022 to 2026 with 95,254 incidents in all years combined. Readers can filter by category and neighborhood to compare local counts within the 2025 period.

In calendar year 2025, Tempe recorded 18,639 police-reported incidents. Violent-category incidents, defined as assault plus sexual assault plus robbery plus shooting plus homicide, totaled 2,401, or 12.9% of the 2025 total. Other accounted for 7,192 reports, followed by Theft at 4,584 and Assault at 1,931. The Other group includes Harassment with 4,672 reports, Threats with 1,000, Drugs with 862 and Weapons offenses with 658.

Recent trend

Tempe's annual totals declined across three consecutive complete years. After 22,141 incidents in 2022 and 20,251 in 2023, the city recorded 19,283 in 2024 and 18,639 in 2025. The change from 2024 to 2025 was a 3.3% decline, based on two consecutive complete calendar years. The same-month comparison for the current partial year also points lower: January–October 2026 recorded 14,355 incidents, compared with 15,540 in January–October 2025, a 7.6% decline. Together, the full-year series and the matched-month comparison show lower counts in both 2025 and the 2026 period available through November 2026.

Category breakdown

In 2025, Other was the largest category in Tempe with 7,192 incidents, or 38.6% of the total. Within Other, Harassment accounted for 4,672 reports, followed by Threats with 1,000, Drugs with 862 and Weapons offenses with 658. Theft ranked second with 4,584 incidents, or 24.6%, while Assault ranked third with 1,931 incidents, or 10.4%. Beyond the top three, Vandalism totaled 1,501 reports, or 8.1%, followed by Theft from vehicle with 832, or 4.5%, and Auto theft with 827, or 4.4%. Violent-category incidents, covering assault plus sexual assault plus robbery plus shooting plus homicide, totaled 2,401 in 2025. The source groups many incident types under Other, which explains its 38.6% share.

Where incidents concentrate

In 2025, Maple Ash recorded 346 incidents, or 1.9% of the city total, followed by Riverside with 223 incidents, or 1.2%, and Sunset with 201 incidents, or 1.1%. Alegre Community recorded 163 incidents, or 0.9%, and Southern Palms recorded 61 incidents, or 0.3%. These five named neighborhoods are ranked by incidents in 2025 among 190 neighborhoods in Tempe, Arizona. Counts follow where people live, work and visit across the city, so neighborhood totals are not a risk score for residents or visitors.

What this means

Tempe recorded 18,639 incidents in 2025, continuing lower full-year totals after 22,141 in 2022, 20,251 in 2023 and 19,283 in 2024. Other accounted for 7,192 incidents, or 38.6%, while Theft added 4,584, or 24.6%, and Assault added 1,931, or 10.4%. At the neighborhood level, Maple Ash reported 346 incidents, or 1.9%, ahead of Riverside with 223, or 1.2%, and Sunset with 201, or 1.1%.

FAQ

How many incidents were reported in Tempe in 2025?
TheCrimeMaps recorded 18,639 police-reported incidents in Tempe in calendar year 2025. That total includes 2,401 violent-category incidents, which were assault plus sexual assault, robbery, shooting and homicide, representing 12.9% of the year’s reports. The remaining reports span theft, vandalism, vehicle-related offenses and the grouped Other category.

What was the most reported crime type in Tempe in 2025?
Other was the largest grouping in 2025 with 7,192 incidents, or 38.6% of the 18,639 total, because the source groups many types together. Within Other, harassment accounted for 4,672 reports, followed by threats with 1,000, drugs with 862 and weapons offenses with 658. The next largest standalone category was theft with 4,584 reports.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Tempe?
Reported incidents declined 3.3% from 19,283 in 2024 to 18,639 in 2025, based on two consecutive complete calendar years. The archive also shows 22,141 incidents in 2022 and 20,251 in 2023. For the current window, January–October 2026 recorded 14,355 incidents compared with 15,540 in the same months of 2025, a decrease of 7.6%.

Which Tempe neighborhoods had the most reported incidents in 2025?
Among 190 named neighborhoods ranked by incidents in 2025, Maple Ash recorded 346 incidents, or 1.9% of the city total. Riverside followed with 223 incidents and Sunset with 201 incidents, representing 1.2% and 1.1% respectively. Alegre Community recorded 163 incidents. No single listed neighborhood accounted for more than 1.9% of the 18,639 total reported in 2025.

Where does the Tempe crime data come from?
The figures on this page are drawn from Tempe Police Department 911 calls, the upstream open-data source for Tempe. TheCrimeMaps standardizes those calls into categories such as theft, assault and vandalism for calendar year 2025, when 18,639 incidents were recorded. The Other grouping, with 7,192 incidents, reflects how the source groups harassment, threats, drugs and weapons offenses.

How current is the Tempe crime data on this page?
The dataset is current through November 2026 and includes complete 12-month data for 2025, when 18,639 incidents were reported. The archive from 2022 through 2026 contains 95,254 incidents, including 14,940 incidents in 2026 with 11 months of data. Year-to-date figures compare January–October 2026 with the same months in 2025.

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