The Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Type I statistics now cover January 1 – July 31, 2026. Reported Type I crime through July 2026: 11,444 incidents, down 1.9% from 11,668 in the same months of 2025.
Police-reported Type I crime totaled 11,444 incidents from January through July 2026, down 1.9% from 11,668 a year earlier, and violent crime overall fell by the same 1.9%, to 3,623 cases. The decline was concentrated in a handful of categories: vehicle thefts dropped 16.6%, rapes fell 15.1%, and robberies were down 5.4%. Burglaries ticked up slightly, 0.6%, while larcenies and aggravated assaults were nearly flat, down 0.3% each. The outlier is homicides, which rose 3.9% to 269, with May the deadliest month at 50. It’s worth noting these are police-reported incidents, not survey-based victimization data, so they reflect what was filed with PRPD rather than a full accounting of crime experienced.
Among the largest municipios, San Juan recorded the most incidents, 2,516, and also the highest rate per 10,000 residents at 74.8. Bayamón and Carolina reported 1,044 and 869 incidents but nearly identical per-resident rates, 57.2 and 57.1. Caguas and Ponce reported fewer incidents and lower rates, 41.6 and 27.8 per 10,000. The pattern suggests that while raw totals are driven by population size, the underlying incident rates in San Juan, Bayamón and Carolina are closer together than the headline numbers alone would imply.
The categories
| Category (PRPD Type I offense category) | 2026 YTD (Reported incidents from January through the last month in the snapshot) | 2025 same months (The same months one year earlier) | Change (Year over year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Type I crime | 11,444 | 11,668 | down 1.9% |
| Homicides | 269 | 259 | up 3.9% |
| Rapes | 230 | 271 | down 15.1% |
| Robberies | 558 | 590 | down 5.4% |
| Aggravated assaults | 2,566 | 2,575 | down 0.3% |
| Burglaries | 1,429 | 1,421 | up 0.6% |
| Larcenies | 5,671 | 5,690 | down 0.3% |
| Vehicle thefts | 719 | 862 | down 16.6% |
Where the incidents are
| Municipio | Type I incidents (YTD) (Reported incidents, year to date) | Homicides | Per 10,000 residents (Incidents per 10,000 residents, using the Census ACS 5-year population) |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Juan | 2,516 | 45 | 74.8 |
| Bayamón | 1,044 | 16 | 57.2 |
| Carolina | 869 | 7 | 57.1 |
| Caguas | 522 | 7 | 41.6 |
| Ponce | 369 | 19 | 27.8 |
Per-resident rates use the Census ACS 5-year population estimate for each municipio; raw counts favor the largest towns, rates do not. Every municipio’s numbers, with the same lenses, are on the safety hub, and each town’s rate appears on its living page.
This is the 2nd Safety Watch (the previous one is here). Source: Puerto Rico Police Bureau, SAEC Type I crime reports (División de Estadísticas de la Criminalidad), published by the Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico (https://www.estadisticas.pr.gov/en-us/productos/delitos-tipo-i), data as of Sep 7. These are reported incidents compiled by the police bureau — not victimization surveys; reporting rates vary by crime type and town.
Corrected October 7: an earlier version called Bayamón’s and Carolina’s totals similar; they differ by 175 incidents.