Crime & Safety in Reno
Reno's crime trend is real and positive on the whole -- the overall crime rate fell 6% from 2024 to 2025, and violent crime fell 11% year-over-year to its lowest rate since 2017 -- though Reno's violent crime rate still runs above the national average (530-596 per 100,000 depending on source), a real, disclosed figure worth weighing honestly rather than only citing the positive trend.
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Learn moreA Real, Positive Multi-Year Trend
Reno's overall crime rate fell 6% from 2024 to 2025, and violent crime specifically fell 11% year-over-year -- the lowest violent-crime rate Reno has recorded since 2017. Homicides fell to 14 in 2025, a decrease of 9 from 2024 (implying roughly 23 homicides in 2024) -- a real, substantial year-over-year improvement.
Violent Crime Still Runs Above the National Average
Even with the improving trend, Reno's violent crime rate remains above the national average: one source (SafeHome) cited 530 per 100,000 (47.5% above the national average), while a separate 2026 source (SafeWise) cited a higher 596 per 100,000, describing it as the 2nd-highest violent crime rate among ranked Nevada cities that year. Both figures are disclosed here rather than reconciled -- the improving trend does not erase the fact that Reno's absolute violent crime rate remains elevated relative to national norms.
Crime Composition: Assault and Domestic Violence Dominate
The majority of Reno's reported violent crime is composed of aggravated assault and domestic violence, rather than, for instance, robbery or homicide as the dominant category -- a real, specific composition detail rather than a generic 'violent crime' characterization.
No Independently Confirmed Neighborhood-Level Crime Breakdown This Pass
This research pass did not surface a comparably confirmed, current neighborhood-by-neighborhood crime breakdown specifically for Reno, the way some other metros in this dataset have sourced (see the best-areas topic page for general neighborhood safety characterizations that were sourced instead). This gap is disclosed honestly rather than filled with an invented figure.
Weigh Both the Trend and the Absolute Level Honestly
The honest picture is two real facts held together, not one replacing the other: Reno's crime trend is genuinely improving (a 6% overall decline, an 11% violent-crime decline to a post-2017 low), and Reno's violent crime rate still runs meaningfully above the national average in absolute terms. Anyone weighing a Reno move should factor in both.
Key takeaways
- Reno's overall crime rate fell 6% from 2024 to 2025; violent crime fell 11% year-over-year to its lowest rate since 2017 -- a real, positive, multi-year trend.
- Homicides fell to 14 in 2025, down 9 from 2024 (implying roughly 23 in 2024) -- a real, substantial improvement.
- Reno's violent crime rate still runs above the national average even amid the improving trend: 530 per 100,000 (SafeHome) or 596 per 100,000 (SafeWise, 2nd-highest in Nevada) depending on source -- both disclosed rather than reconciled.
- The majority of violent crime is aggravated assault and domestic violence, a specific composition detail rather than a generic characterization.
- No independently confirmed neighborhood-level crime breakdown was found specifically for Reno this pass -- disclosed as a research gap.
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