San Antonio Homicides Down 20 Percent Through September: 66 Killings Put the City on Pace for Its First Year Under 100 Since 2015
Figures the San Antonio Police Department briefed to the City Council's Public Safety Committee show 66 homicides from January through September, down from 83 in the same months of 2025 — the fourth straight year of decline from the 2022 peak of 231. Overall offenses fell 6.1 percent.
San Antonio's homicide count is falling at a pace the city has not seen in a decade. The San Antonio Police Department recorded 66 homicides from January through September 2026, down 20 percent from 83 in the same period of 2025, according to the department's briefing to the City Council Public Safety Committee, as reported by KSAT and analyzed in the coverage read this cycle. At that pace, the city could finish the year under 100 homicides for the first time since 2015, when it recorded 94.
The longer line runs downhill from a hard peak: 231 homicides in 2022, then 165 in 2023, 127 in 2024 and 105 in 2025. The improvement is not confined to the homicide count — overall offenses across the city fell 6.1 percent over the same January-through-September span, the department's figures show, as reported by the San Antonio Report.
One caution belongs in the file: homicide tallies are preliminary and counting rules differ between published series. A second account of the same briefing, in the San Antonio Report, cited figures of 80 against 126 on a different counting basis than the headline series above — the desk reports both rather than silently choosing one, and the direction of every published series agrees even where the levels differ: killings in San Antonio are down, substantially, for the fourth consecutive year.
