Harris County – We’re taking a closer look at the bodies found in Houston bayous from the last decade.

KPRC 2 requested data from Jan. 2015 until now, but the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office was only able to provide data from Jan. 2017.

Here’s what we found.

Since the beginning of 2017, there have been a total of 192 bodies found in the bayou. We excluded the bodies that were found in a vehicle along the bayou.

Here is the breakdown by year: 2017 18 2018 17 2019 12 2020 26 2021 15 2022 19 2023 22 2024 34 2025 29

Here is the breakdown by zip code: 77002 21 Downtown Houston / Buffalo Bayou Park 77023 17 Eastwood / Lawndale–Wayside 77003 17 East Downtown (EaDo) / Navigation Blvd 77017 8 Glenbrook Valley / Southeast Houston 77021 7 Third Ward / MacGregor

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