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Property crime in the United States

Law enforcement agencies reported 5,167,096 property crime offenses in 2025, a rate of 1,552.1 per 100,000 residents of the population those agencies covered.

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2025

5,167,096
Offenses reported
1,552.1
Rate per 100,000
898,296
Offenses cleared
17.4%
Share cleared
332,920,308
Population covered
96.4%
Reporting coverage

The rate denominator is the population the reporting agencies served, not the population of the United States, so the rate here is the rate the FBI computes. A clearance is an offense an agency closed by arrest or by exceptional means. The FBI clears an offense by arrest once a person has been arrested, charged, and turned over to a court for prosecution, which is where the record ends; on our reading that makes the share cleared a measure of cases closed, not of cases that ended in a conviction. The FBI also notes that a clearance recorded in one year may close an offense reported in an earlier one.

1985 to 2025

Reported property crime rate, 1985 to 2025. Property crime offenses per 100,000 residents, using the FBI’s own population denominator for the agencies that reported. Only years reported in full are plotted; a gap is a year with no published rate, not a year of none.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division — FBI Crime Data Explorer API
The figures behind this chart
Reported property crime rate, 1985 to 2025. Property crime offenses per 100,000 residents, using the FBI’s own population denominator for the agencies that reported. Only years reported in full are plotted; a gap is a year with no published rate, not a year of none.
YearProperty crime rate
19854,778.8
19865,014.4
19875,088.2
19885,044.2
19895,207.7
19905,225.1
19915,387.3
19925,089.1
19934,813.3
19944,750.4
19954,794.9
19964,550.6
19974,483.9
19984,207.0
19993,867.4
20003,748.3
20013,798.5
20023,735.9
20033,700.9
20043,597.5
20053,516.4
20063,396.6
20073,314.9
20083,251.8
20093,075.5
20102,961.9
20112,925.2
20122,880.3
20132,757.1
20142,591.2
20152,493.8
20162,468.5
20172,371.3
20182,206.2
20192,107.6
20201,954.5
20211,764.8
20221,998.9
20231,950.8
20241,766.8
20251,552.1

The FBI has also published 9 months of 2026. That year is not plotted and is not compared with a full year here, because a part-year total is smaller for the reason that it is shorter.

By state · 2025

Every jurisdiction the FBI published a property crime rate for in 2025, ranked from the highest rate. The coverage column is the share of each state’s population living in a reporting agency’s jurisdiction; below 90%, both the count and the rate describe part of the state.

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Jurisdictions ranked by reported property crime rate, 2025
RankStateRate per 100,000OffensesCoverage
1District of Columbia3,178.122,045100.0%
2New Mexico2,350.546,91693.9%
3Colorado2,234.5133,19899.1%
4Oregon2,184.391,49798.0%
5Nevada2,028.866,35599.6%
6Washington2,016.8157,38597.5%
7Alaska1,926.714,15699.7%
8Kansas1,921.554,23594.8%
9Louisiana1,858.766,96278.0%
10Maryland1,852.7116,078100.0%
11Oklahoma1,839.075,74799.9%
12California1,821.3716,491100.0%
13Texas1,812.6569,72399.1%
14North Carolina1,810.9195,86896.6%
15South Carolina1,713.991,99196.4%
16Missouri1,688.7104,52798.7%
17Hawaii1,681.924,099100.0%
18Arkansas1,668.551,15898.4%
19Tennessee1,661.4121,04899.6%
20Delaware1,581.616,763100.0%
21New York1,566.7309,52598.8%
22Illinois1,556.0187,37694.7%
23Arizona1,540.6114,88797.8%
24Alabama1,501.177,38099.3%
25North Dakota1,494.411,80398.8%
26Ohio1,470.8163,19893.2%
27Montana1,467.816,802100.0%
28Vermont1,445.99,30199.8%
29South Dakota1,429.711,99789.7%
30Minnesota1,429.183,15799.8%
31Georgia1,404.0143,69790.5%
32Nebraska1,403.428,16299.4%
33Virginia1,393.9123,766100.0%
34Pennsylvania1,360.5176,25799.2%
35Utah1,319.546,19698.9%
36Mississippi1,314.531,62981.5%
37Michigan1,299.4127,46596.9%
38Kentucky1,281.559,032100.0%
39New Jersey1,267.8118,12597.6%
40Indiana1,252.176,50787.6%
41Iowa1,204.937,86897.1%
42Connecticut1,159.442,764100.0%
43Wyoming1,098.05,97892.5%
44West Virginia1,093.016,85687.3%
45Florida1,077.8213,40984.4%
46Massachusetts1,036.273,96999.8%
47Wisconsin1,032.859,89397.1%
48Maine961.513,41898.6%
49Rhode Island921.010,14198.8%
50New Hampshire828.711,71799.9%
51Idaho623.912,49298.6%

How to read this

  • Reporting to the FBI is voluntary. Coverage varies by agency and by year, so a change in a total can be a change in which agencies reported rather than a change in offenses.
  • Rates on this page divide by the population the reporting agencies served, which is the FBI’s own population figure for the jurisdiction multiplied by the share of it those agencies covered. Dividing by the whole population instead would understate the rate by exactly the share that did not report.
  • An annual rate is the annual count over that denominator. It is never the average of the FBI’s monthly rates, because averaging rates across months of differing coverage produces a number that belongs to no population.

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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