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State crime rates

Pick a state to see the FBI's estimate of its reported violent and property crime rate for every year since 1979, with the counts and population behind each rate and how many of the state's police agencies reported.

Informational only, not professional advice. A state rate is the FBI's estimate for a whole state. It says nothing certain about any city, street or home in it.

Pick a state

Listed A to Z. CrimeTally does not rank states.

The United States as a whole, 2025

For reference, the FBI's national estimate for 2025 is 327.6 violent crimes and 1,534.8 property crimes per 100,000 people: 1,119,768 and 5,245,768 estimated offenses for a population of 341,784,857.

How the rate is worked out

FBI estimated offenses ÷ population × 100,000 = estimated reported crime rate

The counts and populations come from the FBI's “estimated crimes” file on the Crime Data Explorer downloads page, which covers 1979 to 2025. CrimeTally divides and multiplies; it does not estimate anything itself. The share of agencies reporting comes from the FBI's participation file on the same page.

What “estimate” means here

Police agencies report to the FBI voluntarily. Where an agency reported fewer than 12 months, or not at all, the FBI fills in a figure by its published method, so the state total is partly reported and partly estimated. The FBI publishes a note where it had only limited data for a state, and CrimeTally shows that note on the state's page. A year where few agencies reported leans on the FBI's method much more than a year where nearly all did, which is why the share of agencies reporting sits beside every year.

What a state rate can't tell you

  • Where in the state crime was reported. One city can move a whole state's figure.
  • Anything about crime nobody reported to police.
  • Why two states differ. The FBI lists more than a dozen things that shape crime from place to place, and advises against ranking states with these figures: UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use.
  • Rape before and after 2013 on one line. The definition changed in 2013, and the violent crime total changed with it.

Last reviewed: September 2026

Questions people ask

Why is a state's figure an estimate when an agency's is a count?

Not every police agency in a state reports to the FBI, and some report only part of a year. For its state and national totals the FBI fills those gaps by its own published method, so the state figure is the FBI's estimate of all reported crime in the state. CrimeTally shows the share of the state's agencies that reported that year next to every estimate, so you can see how much of it rests on reports and how much on the FBI's method.

Why doesn't the state's rate match the sum of its agencies' pages?

Agency pages show only what each agency reported, with nothing filled in. The state estimate includes the FBI's figures for agencies that did not report. Where almost every agency reports, the two are close; where many do not, as in Florida in recent years, they can be far apart.

Which state has the highest or lowest crime rate?

CrimeTally does not say. The FBI, which publishes these estimates, advises against ranking states or cities with its data, because the figures leave out most of what makes two places different. Each state has its own page, and the list of states is alphabetical.

Why does the rape count change definition in 2013?

In 2013 the FBI widened its definition of rape. Figures from 2013 onward use the revised definition and earlier figures use the older one, so the rape count and the violent crime total it feeds into are not directly comparable across that line. Each state's page marks which definition a year uses.

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