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Arrests in New Hampshire

Agencies in New Hampshire reported 36,179 arrests to the FBI in 2025, broken down here by the arrestee’s race, sex and age.

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  • An arrest is an event, not a person. One person arrested three times in a year is three arrests, so these are not counts of individuals and a rate is not the share of a population that was arrested.
  • Race is recorded by the arresting agency, not reported by the person arrested.
  • The FBI publishes no ethnicity field with these arrests, so no Hispanic or Latino figure can be derived from them. Hispanic arrestees are recorded under a race, which is why the population each rate divides by is that race across all origins rather than the non-Hispanic part of it.
  • The FBI’s “Multiple” category is an arresting officer’s classification of one person. The Census Bureau’s “two or more races” is what a person says about themselves. They are not the same population, so that row carries a count and no rate.
  • Reporting to the FBI is voluntary and coverage varies by agency and by year, so a change in an arrest count can be a change in which agencies reported.
  • A rate is not published where fewer than 20 arrests lie behind it. That is the convention US federal vital statistics use for an unreliable rate, and it matters most in the smallest groups: nineteen arrests among a few hundred residents produces a figure that one or two arrests would move by a third. The count is always shown.
  • Comparing the composition of arrestees with the composition of a population assumes equal offending and equal likelihood of arrest across groups. This data supports neither assumption, and nothing here implies either.
  • 344 arrests in 2025 carry no race at all — not even “unknown” — so the race rows total slightly less than the arrests recorded.

By race · 2025

Arrests per 100,000 residents of that group in New Hampshire, using Census Bureau estimates for the same year. The FBI’s legacy grouping, “Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Other Pacific Islander”, contains two of the rows below and is left out rather than counted twice.

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Arrests in New Hampshire by race, 2025
RaceArrestsShare of arrestsPer 100,000
White32,62490.2%2,532
Black or African American2,5247.0%8,489
Unknown6171.7%
Asian3581.0%825
American Indian or Alaska Native390.1%758
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander170.0%
Multiple00.0%
Not Specified00.0%

By sex · 2025

25,012
Male
3,564 per 100,000 residents
11,167
Female
1,565 per 100,000 residents

By age · 2025

Arrests in New Hampshire by age band and sex, 2025
AgeSexArrestsPer 100,000
Under 10Female2
Under 10Male3
Under 11Female0
Under 11Male0
10-12Female2355
10-12Male4198
11-12Female0
11-12Male0
13-14Female85291
13-14Male239819
15Female97648
15Male2131,423
16Female1581,025
16Male2701,751
17Female159997
17Male3952,477
18Female2731,698
18Male6764,204
19Female2791,675
19Male7404,442
20Female2941,737
20Male6753,988
21Female170923
21Male4682,540
22Female163891
22Male4322,361
23Female163970
23Male4562,715
24Female1691,003
24Male4392,605
25-29Female1,1691,371
25-29Male2,5663,009
30-34Female1,5831,747
30-34Male3,2693,608
35-39Female1,8852,001
35-39Male3,9044,144
40-44Female1,5371,763
40-44Male3,3323,823
45-49Female9321,192
45-49Male2,1812,790
50-54Female736881
50-54Male1,5351,838
55-59Female516539
55-59Male1,1861,239
60-64Female416378
60-64Male1,017923
65 and overFemale358110
65 and overMale975300
Juvenile OtherFemale0
Juvenile OtherMale0
Adult OtherFemale0
Adult OtherMale0

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