Washington Place · Photo: CaesarGJ · Public domainOn property crime, Urban Honolulu has a higher rate per resident than seven in ten U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded crimes were down 27% from 2023 to 2025. Urban Honolulu grades C+ for safety overall (#67 of 325 U.S. cities over 100,000): more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 1.8 violent crimes and 17.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (3.6 and 17.6 nationally).
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. No other Hawaii city or town is in the FBI’s tables for these years, so there is no rest-of-state figure; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Urban Honolulu
Homicides: below U.S. cities overall
Urban Honolulu’s police reported 4 homicides to the FBI in 2025. Over 2023–2025 that is 0.8 per 100,000 residents a year, below all U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables (5.7). Violent crime ↓
Robberies: below U.S. cities overall
48.3 robberies per 100,000 residents a year over 2023–2025 (412 reported in 2025), below all U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables (79.4). Violent crime ↓
Against other big cities
Among the 325 U.S. cities over 100,000 we grade, Urban Honolulu reports less crime per resident than 79% (#67). Places like it ↓
A job center
Urban Honolulu has 283,818 jobs based in town for 345,482 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Urban Honolulu’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.8) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (17.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Homicides and robberies
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| Year | Urban Honolulu | U.S. cities (FBI tables) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.5 | 7.7 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 5.7 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 4.6 |
Homicides per 100,000 residents
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| Year | Urban Honolulu | U.S. cities (FBI tables) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 83.7 | 95.5 |
| 2023 | 51.7 | 90.6 |
| 2024 | 51.5 | 81.9 |
| 2025 | 41.7 | 66.0 |
Robberies per 100,000 residents
Urban Honolulu’s police reported 4 homicides, 412 robberies and 1,633 violent crimes in all to the FBI in 2025. By year, against all U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Urban Honolulu | Urban Honolulu |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25.8 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 19.4 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 17.9 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 13.8 | 1.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025.
Crime in Urban Honolulu per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
15,297 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
1,633 violent and 13,664 property, as reported to the FBI by Urban Honolulu’s police.
75 people died in crashes on Urban Honolulu’s roads in 2019–2023
Urban Honolulu had 73 fatal crashes in five years, in which 75 people died; 36 were pedestrians and 9 were cyclists. 12 died in crashes on an Interstate.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Urban Honolulu and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Honolulu | C+ | 1.8 | 17.1 |
| East Honolulu | — | — | — |
| Hickam Housing | — | — | — |
| Halawa | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. East Honolulu, Hickam Housing and Halawa are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Urban Honolulu. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Urban Honolulu’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (987,000 in 2025); our figure for Urban Honolulu is 345,482 (census survey, 2020–24).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Urban Honolulu
Is Urban Honolulu, HI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Urban Honolulu reports more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade. Its police reported 1.8 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Urban Honolulu?
1.8 violent and 17.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Urban Honolulu in 2025?
Urban Honolulu’s police reported 4 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.4 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Urban Honolulu?
Urban Honolulu’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Honolulu”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.