Crime Statistics

New Mexico's rate of 8.6 in 2025 was the third highest in the country, and Alabama, at 8.5, was fourth. Both were alread...

Five of the eight, Colorado, Montana, Kansas, California and Arkansas, had 2025 rates above the national 327.6; Colorado...

Property crime fell in all 51 places over the decade, but by very different amounts: Idaho's rate dropped by 65.4 per ce...

The District of Columbia still had the highest robbery rate in 2025, 347.0, down from 558.8 in 2015, a fall of 37.9 per...

In 46 of the 51 places the burglary rate more than halved between 2015 and 2025. Colorado had the smallest fall, from 43...

Larceny-theft is by far the most common offense in the FBI's figures: 3,910,502 in 2025, against 4,333,504 in 2024, a fa...

Nationally, aggravated assaults fell from 876,153 to 813,424, or 7.2 per cent. Tennessee had one of the largest falls am...

Alaska's rate was 3.3 times the national rate and 49.5 above second-placed Arkansas. Nationally the estimated number fel...

The District of Columbia's rate was 7.0 times the national rate, although it fell from 485.4 in 2024. Across the country...

The number of burglaries in the United States fell from 785,533 in 2024 to 661,800 in 2025, a drop of 15.8 per cent. New...

Texas and California together accounted for 2,835 murders, 20.1 per cent of the national total. California fell from 1,6...

California had 124,629 motor vehicle thefts, 18.5 per cent of the national total of 673,466. Washington had the steepest...

Property crime fell in 50 of the 51 places. Washington dropped from 2,494.4 in 2024 to 1,974.8, and the national rate fe...

Louisiana and New Mexico both fell by close to two points, from 10.5 and 10.6 in 2024, and still placed second and third...

Violent crime fell in 47 of the 51 places. Tennessee had the largest fall among the ten highest, from 602.4 in 2024 to 4...

Singapore (0.07), Oman (0.14) and Japan (0.23) record the three lowest figures. Across the twenty shown, values run from...

Saint Kitts and Nevis (64.16), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (51.32) and Jamaica (49.44) take the top three. Across t...

Among countries with reliable figures, Iran carried out by far the most executions in 2024 - at least 972, roughly 64% o...

The United States holds the world's largest prison population at over 1.8 million people, narrowly ahead of China's 1.69...

The top three in Prisoners per 100,000 Population are El Salvador (1,659), Cuba (794) and Rwanda (637). The 8 entries co...

El Salvador (1,086), Cuba (794) and United States (630) take the top three in Prisoners Per 100,000 Population in 2024....

El Salvador's incarceration rate of 1,086 prisoners per 100,000 stands out dramatically, more than double that of the Un...