Record · Offense

Robbery in the United States

Law enforcement agencies reported 166,262 robbery offenses, a rate of 49.9 per 100,000 residents of the population they covered, in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

2025

166,262
Offenses reported: 49.9
Rate per 100,000: 59,681
Offenses cleared: 35.9%
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 robbery rate is 82.9% below its 1991 peak

Robbery 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 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

About this chart

The figures

The robbery rate is 82.9% below its 1991 peak. Robbery 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	Robbery rate	Offenses reported
1985	215.8	493,734
1986	233.9	537,766
1987	221.1	510,692
1988	221.5	483,405
1989	242.5	570,008
1990	266.9	627,874
1991	292.3	676,882
1992	278.8	662,572
1993	268.8	640,695
1994	250.9	601,930
1995	238.6	556,544
1996	218.5	504,148
1997	202.6	477,962
1998	180.2	428,996
1999	159.6	388,337
2000	156.3	394,640
2001	159.1	410,411
2002	153.9	409,120
2003	150.3	401,032
2004	142.2	390,436
2005	146.9	405,589
2006	154.1	441,809
2007	151.8	440,881
2008	149.0	437,985
2009	136.1	404,135
2010	120.8	364,978
2011	115.3	352,047
2012	114.5	352,655
2013	110.8	341,538
2014	102.7	318,768
2015	102.5	321,517
2016	104.1	328,677
2017	98.6	312,695
2018	87.1	280,452
2019	82.5	263,027
2020	74.0	236,026
2021	53.5	138,556
2022	69.7	222,460
2023	68.1	221,098
2024	61.6	204,051
2025	49.9	166,262

Embed this chart

Paste this where you want the chart. The picture carries its title, source and credit, under the site’s license.

<figure style="margin:0;max-width:960px">
  <img src="https://americanfactbook.org/embed/chart/crime-offense-robbery-trend.svg" alt="The robbery rate is 82.9% below its 1991 peak" style="width:100%;height:auto" loading="lazy">
  <figcaption style="font:13px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif">Chart: <a href="https://americanfactbook.org/crime">The robbery rate is 82.9% below its 1991 peak</a>, American Factbook, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption>
</figure>

By state · 2025

Every jurisdiction the FBI published a robbery 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.

3 more columns on a wider screen

Jurisdictions ranked by reported robbery rate, 2025
Rank	State	Rate per 100,000	Offenses	Cleared	Coverage
1	District of Columbia	348.0	2,414	45.2%	100.0%
2	California	94.9	37,341	33.5%	100.0%
3	New York	91.1	18,002	55.0%	98.8%
4	Maryland	86.1	5,396	44.5%	100.0%
5	Alaska	84.5	621	42.5%	99.7%
6	Illinois	63.3	7,628	17.9%	94.7%
7	Nevada	56.9	1,860	48.8%	99.6%
8	New Mexico	53.7	1,072	17.5%	93.9%
9	Washington	53.1	4,139	35.1%	97.5%
10	Texas	52.5	16,500	28.5%	99.1%
11	Oregon	51.8	2,168	41.0%	98.0%
12	Arizona	50.9	3,796	35.4%	97.8%
13	Colorado	48.5	2,895	38.8%	99.1%
14	Pennsylvania	45.4	5,886	35.5%	99.2%
15	Missouri	43.1	2,669	30.2%	98.7%
16	Tennessee	42.0	3,059	26.2%	99.6%
17	Ohio	41.9	4,644	27.3%	93.2%
18	North Carolina	41.7	4,510	34.5%	96.6%
19	Hawaii	40.8	585	34.9%	100.0%
20	Delaware	39.0	413	52.5%	100.0%
21	New Jersey	38.4	3,580	29.1%	97.6%
22	Minnesota	35.4	2,059	29.5%	99.8%
23	Georgia	33.8	3,460	24.7%	90.5%
24	Massachusetts	33.4	2,385	31.7%	99.8%
25	Florida	33.2	6,582	41.0%	84.4%
26	Kansas	32.9	928	36.3%	94.8%
27	Oklahoma	32.2	1,327	32.7%	99.9%
28	Indiana	31.9	1,948	32.6%	87.6%
29	Arkansas	31.0	950	36.5%	98.4%
30	Alabama	30.8	1,586	30.8%	99.3%
31	Wisconsin	30.3	1,759	37.8%	97.1%
32	Connecticut	30.3	1,117	35.5%	100.0%
33	Virginia	30.3	2,688	49.3%	100.0%
34	Kentucky	29.7	1,369	35.5%	100.0%
35	South Carolina	28.4	1,527	42.4%	96.4%
36	Louisiana	27.9	1,004	34.2%	78.0%
37	Michigan	27.5	2,692	35.2%	96.9%
38	Utah	23.5	822	44.3%	98.9%
39	Mississippi	21.8	525	25.7%	81.5%
40	South Dakota	18.9	159	30.8%	89.7%
41	Nebraska	18.9	378	50.8%	99.4%
42	North Dakota	18.8	149	43.6%	98.8%
43	Rhode Island	18.2	200	39.5%	98.8%
44	Montana	18.2	208	51.4%	100.0%
45	Iowa	15.9	500	47.2%	97.1%
46	Vermont	11.7	75	64.0%	99.8%
47	Maine	11.1	155	52.9%	98.6%
48	New Hampshire	11.1	157	63.7%	99.9%
49	West Virginia	9.7	149	30.2%	87.3%
50	Wyoming	9.6	52	48.1%	92.5%
51	Idaho	5.7	115	54.8%	98.6%

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 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