Tucson, AZ crime: up or down?
Newest FBI monthly report: Sep 2026
41% below the usual, but Tucson's past years differ from each other almost as much, so this isn't clearly unusual.
Missing or partial reports to the FBI: Jan 2022 – Apr 2022, Sep 2023 – Oct 2023, Dec 2023. Those months are left out of every comparison.
Open Tucson on the mapThe map adds deadly crashes, plus plate-reader cameras and police surveillance technology where they are known, and lets you save the place to see what changes.
The same months in past years
- 20227,183
- 20245,741
- 20253,583
- 20263,250
Is Tucson safe?
Crime Radar doesn't grade towns as safe or unsafe: one number can't say what a street is like, and the FBI warns against ranking places. What these reports can say is whether Tucson has more or fewer reported crimes than it usually does, and that its yearly rate is 26.3 per 1,000 residents against 18.7 across Arizona. For one block, open it on the map.
How this works
Tucson Police Department sends monthly counts of violent and property crime to the FBI. Crime Radar compares the newest complete three months with the same months in past years, and only calls a change when it's bigger than this department's usual ups and downs. Months with missing reports are left out, so a reporting gap never looks like a safe stretch. These are totals for everywhere the department patrols, not one street.
Not every crime reaches these numbers: in the national victim survey, about 6 in 10 serious violent crimes and 3 in 10 property crimes were reported to police in 2024 (BJS).