Louisville reports 22% drop in homicides and 28% drop in nonfatal shootings in 2025

Louisville homicides fell 22% and nonfatal shootings fell 28% in 2025, according to the city’s first annual Safe Louisville report, released by Mayor Craig Greenberg on July 7, 2026.

The report is a city-issued update on Louisville’s violence-reduction work and the violent-crime measures the city says improved during 2025. It provides a public benchmark for residents, elected officials, police and groups involved in violence-intervention efforts as they assess the city’s public-safety strategy.

What the report says

Louisville Metro Government said the report found a 22% decrease in homicides during 2025 and a 28% decrease in nonfatal shootings during the same year.

The announcement describes the publication as Mayor Greenberg’s first annual Safe Louisville report. Along with the two reported declines, it includes an update on the city’s plan and work intended to address violent crime.

The reported changes are percentages, not raw incident totals. The available announcement does not provide the underlying homicide or shooting counts, the comparison-year totals or a methodology for calculating the declines.

How to read the figures

The figures describe changes reported for 2025. They do not, on their own, show whether the reductions continued into 2026.

The report also describes violence-reduction work, but the reported percentage changes do not by themselves establish that any one city program or intervention caused the declines. The city’s announcement presents the report as an update on both the crime measures and its broader work addressing violent crime.

Homicides and nonfatal shootings are distinct measures. The city reported decreases in each, rather than a single combined measure of violent crime. The announcement does not identify in the available information whether the figures came entirely from Louisville Metro Police Department records or another reporting system.

A citywide public-safety benchmark

As the first annual Safe Louisville report, the release sets an initial public reporting point for the city’s violence-reduction effort. Its importance is not limited to the percentages: it gives the public a stated set of 2025 results against which future city updates can be compared.

Louisville Metro Government’s announcement did not identify a separate next deadline or future release date. Any later assessment of the trend will require updated figures and the underlying data or methodology needed to place the percentage changes in context.