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Florida and New York compared

Florida reported 248.7 violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2025 and New York reported 368.0. Each rate is over the population that state's reporting agencies covered, which is 84.4% and 98.8% respectively.

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Florida and New York compared
MeasureFloridaNew York
Violent crime rateviolent offenses per 100,000 residents covered248.7368.0
Property crime rateproperty offenses per 100,000 residents covered1,077.81,566.7
Violent offenses reportedoffenses49,23772,708
Property offenses reportedoffenses213,409309,525
Population the reporting agencies coveredresidents19,799,627.89819,756,730.522

What this data cannot show

  • Both are among the ten most populous states, which is why this pair is published rather than one of the 1,275 possible pairs.
  • A rate here divides by the population the reporting agencies covered, not by everyone who lives in the state. That is the FBI’s own denominator and it is why the covered population is shown as a measure rather than left implicit.
  • These two states did not report equally. Agencies covering 84.4% of Florida reported and 98.8% of New York, a gap of 14.4%. A gap above 10 points is enough that the difference between these two rates is partly a difference in who reported, and this comparison cannot separate the two.
  • Florida fell below 90% coverage, so its figures describe a smaller share of the state than the other’s do.
  • The FBI cautions against ranking jurisdictions against one another. This page puts two side by side with the coverage that produced each, which is the most a reader can be given without the comparison asserting more than the data holds.

Sources

  • FBI Crime Data Explorer APIFederal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026

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