Record · Offense

Rape in the United States

Law enforcement agencies reported 123,562 rape offenses, a rate of 37.1 per 100,000 residents of the population they covered, in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

2025

123,562
Offenses reported: 37.1
Rate per 100,000: 34,362
Offenses cleared: 27.8%
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

The rape rate is 17.2% below its 2018 peak

Rape offenses per 100,000 residents, using the FBI’s own population denominator for the agencies that reported. Only years reported in full are drawn; a gap is a year with no published rate, not a year of none.

The line is marked at 2013 because the record changes there rather than the world: the rate steps up 15.4% into 2013. Years either side of that mark are different measures and a change across it is not a change in offenses.

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

Source: The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer

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The figures

The rape rate is 17.2% below its 2018 peak. Rape offenses per 100,000 residents, using the FBI’s own population denominator for the agencies that reported. Only years reported in full are drawn; a gap is a year with no published rate, not a year of none.
Year	Rape rate	Offenses reported
1985	37.6	86,118
1986	36.9	84,804
1987	36.4	84,103
1988	35.8	78,251
1989	36.9	86,714
1990	40.1	94,397
1991	42.1	97,553
1992	42.3	100,512
1993	37.1	88,387
1994	38.8	93,179
1995	37.5	87,550
1996	35.7	82,296
1997	36.1	85,210
1998	34.9	83,033
1999	32.5	79,042
2000	32.1	81,213
2001	32.1	82,766
2002	32.9	87,334
2003	32.1	85,763
2004	32.2	88,245
2005	31.6	87,308
2006	30.5	87,378
2007	29.2	84,735
2008	28.5	83,758
2009	28.4	84,304
2010	27.9	84,190
2011	27.0	82,607
2012	27.1	83,439
2013	31.2	96,316
2014	34.9	108,388
2015	38.1	119,604
2016	40.0	126,395
2017	42.9	136,168
2018	44.8	144,342
2019	44.8	142,870
2020	40.9	130,462
2021	44.1	113,872
2022	43.5	138,889
2023	41.1	133,328
2024	39.4	130,357
2025	37.1	123,562

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By state · 2025

Every jurisdiction the FBI published a rape 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 rape rate, 2025
Rank	State	Rate per 100,000	Offenses	Cleared	Coverage
1	Alaska	121.8	895	22.8%	99.7%
2	Arkansas	72.4	2,220	21.1%	98.4%
3	Montana	63.8	730	18.5%	100.0%
4	Utah	62.1	2,174	36.9%	98.9%
5	Oklahoma	61.0	2,512	14.3%	99.9%
6	West Virginia	60.5	934	15.6%	87.3%
7	Colorado	60.0	3,578	24.7%	99.1%
8	Michigan	55.4	5,435	35.7%	96.9%
9	New Mexico	54.2	1,081	7.4%	93.9%
10	Nevada	53.4	1,746	19.0%	99.6%
11	South Dakota	49.8	418	16.3%	89.7%
12	Texas	49.1	15,442	24.2%	99.1%
13	Ohio	47.4	5,256	16.2%	93.2%
14	Kansas	47.1	1,328	21.2%	94.8%
15	Illinois	47.0	5,660	12.7%	94.7%
16	North Dakota	46.7	369	32.2%	98.8%
17	Nebraska	45.2	907	25.8%	99.4%
18	Idaho	45.2	904	47.3%	98.6%
19	Wyoming	43.2	235	33.6%	92.5%
20	Missouri	41.9	2,594	27.8%	98.7%
21	Oregon	40.7	1,704	26.6%	98.0%
22	Washington	39.8	3,104	31.3%	97.5%
23	Arizona	38.7	2,884	13.0%	97.8%
24	Minnesota	38.2	2,226	32.3%	99.8%
25	Iowa	37.0	1,163	32.2%	97.1%
26	Vermont	36.7	236	36.0%	99.8%
27	Tennessee	36.6	2,666	32.4%	99.6%
28	New Hampshire	36.2	512	19.3%	99.9%
29	Kentucky	35.4	1,629	43.4%	100.0%
30	South Carolina	34.7	1,866	41.9%	96.4%
31	Indiana	34.3	2,098	27.7%	87.6%
32	Hawaii	34.3	492	33.1%	100.0%
33	California	34.1	13,423	25.2%	100.0%
34	Rhode Island	33.3	368	22.3%	98.8%
35	Maryland	32.8	2,056	36.4%	100.0%
36	Louisiana	32.5	1,172	25.4%	78.0%
37	Wisconsin	32.3	1,874	48.6%	97.1%
38	Georgia	30.7	3,144	20.8%	90.5%
39	Alabama	30.3	1,560	32.3%	99.3%
40	Mississippi	30.1	724	14.4%	81.5%
41	Maine	28.5	397	24.4%	98.6%
42	Massachusetts	27.3	1,946	27.6%	99.8%
43	Pennsylvania	27.0	3,501	46.4%	99.2%
44	New York	26.9	5,313	35.8%	98.8%
45	Florida	26.8	5,318	35.5%	84.4%
46	North Carolina	26.4	2,860	31.0%	96.6%
47	Virginia	25.2	2,236	50.4%	100.0%
48	District of Columbia	24.8	172	79.7%	100.0%
49	Delaware	19.1	202	93.6%	100.0%
50	New Jersey	16.9	1,572	17.2%	97.6%
51	Connecticut	16.0	589	27.3%	100.0%

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 API — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer API by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 19, 2026