Cities With the Most Burglaries (2025)
Burglary — unlawful entry into a home or business with intent to commit a crime — remains one of the property offenses with the widest gap between the highest- and lowest-reporting cities. This ranks every city we track (population 50,000+) by reported burglaries per 100,000 residents for 2025, using FBI Crime Data Explorer figures, to show where break-ins are reported most often.
The national reported burglary rate for 2025 is 186.8 per 100,000 residents. Of the 759 cities we track, 101 cities report a burglary rate more than double that national average. See the full methodology for how rates are calculated from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports.
Top 25 cities by burglary rate
Ranked by reported burglary incidents per 100,000 residents, highest first. Population 50,000+ cities only.
| # | City | Rate per 100k | Population | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seattle, WA | 980.2 | 791,503 | E |
| 2 | Lafayette, LA | 854.8 | 122,489 | F |
| 3 | Dayton, OH | 829.9 | 136,047 | F |
| 4 | Lawton, OK | 805.0 | 89,942 | E |
| 5 | Canton, OH | 787.0 | 68,866 | F |
| 6 | Cleveland, OH | 763.4 | 363,659 | F |
| 7 | Pueblo, CO | 760.5 | 110,981 | F |
| 8 | Peoria, IL | 742.4 | 111,389 | F |
| 9 | Topeka, KS | 739.5 | 125,228 | F |
| 10 | Springfield, OH | 739.3 | 58,026 | F |
| 11 | Birmingham, AL | 730.3 | 195,393 | F |
| 12 | Memphis, TN | 715.4 | 606,629 | F |
| 13 | Springfield, IL | 693.6 | 112,595 | F |
| 14 | St Louis, MO | 684.1 | 274,819 | F |
| 15 | Little Rock, AR | 676.5 | 205,320 | F |
| 16 | Albuquerque, NM | 671.0 | 559,192 | F |
| 17 | Gary, IN | 662.2 | 67,197 | F |
| 18 | Santa Monica, CA | 661.9 | 90,193 | E |
| 19 | Beaumont, TX | 661.9 | 112,404 | E |
| 20 | Springfield, MO | 652.8 | 170,958 | F |
| 21 | Montgomery, AL | 638.7 | 194,775 | E |
| 22 | Detroit, MI | 633.8 | 642,155 | F |
| 23 | Tulsa, OK | 624.7 | 415,528 | E |
| 24 | Asheville, NC | 624.2 | 95,155 | E |
| 25 | St Joseph, MO | 618.3 | 70,838 | D |
At the other end of the same 759-city field, these 5 report the lowest burglary rate per 100,000 residents.
No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →