Raleigh property crime decreases, while homicides and violent crime hold steady
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- Raleigh property crime fell 17% in 2025, from 14,200 incidents to 11,758.
- Motor vehicle thefts and larceny from vehicles drove declines, down 32% and 27%.
- Commercial burglaries rose slightly to 453; violent crime and traffic deaths edged down.
Property crime in Raleigh dropped 17% last year, according to the Raleigh Police Department’s annual crime report released Wednesday.
Total property crime incidents declined from 14,200 in 2024 to 11,758 in 2025.
Much of the drop came from fewer motor-vehicle thefts and larcenies from vehicles. Crime in those categories dropped by 32% and 27% respectively.
In an email statement to The News & Observer, public information officer Darran Todd said the decline was part of a “downward national trend due to Kia and Hyundai fixing the software glitches in their vehicles, and the work of RPD’s Auto Theft Task Force.”
The only category of property crime that increased in 2025 were commercial burglaries. Police recorded 453 incidents compared to 429 in 2024.
Violent crime in Raleigh dropped by 1%, from 8,610 incidents in 2024 to 8,541 in 2024. Most categories of violent crime declined.
- Homicides stayed roughly the same, with 28 homicides in 2025 compared to 27 in 2024
- 24 of the 28 homicides involved guns.
- The victim and perpetrator knew each other in 21 of the 28 homicide incidents. Five of the 28 homicides were domestic violence-related.
- Robberies fell from 434 in 2024 to 394 in 2025, a 9% decline.
- Assaults fell by a negligible amount — from 7,453 in 2024 to 7,418 in 2025.
Traffic fatalities also stayed around the same level. The city recorded 37 fatalities in 2025, a 3% drop from 38 in 2024.
This story was originally published February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM.
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