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States by rape rate

Alaska ranks first with 121.8 reported rape offenses per 100,000 residents in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

All 51 jurisdictions with a reported rape rate for 2025, ranked, with the offense count beside each rate.

Rape per 100,000 residents · 2025

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Jurisdictions ranked by reported rape rate, 2025
Rank
1	Alaska	121.8	895	22.8%	734,745	99.7%
2	Arkansas	72.4	2,220	21.1%	3,066,096	98.4%
3	Montana	63.8	730	18.5%	1,144,694	100.0%
4	Utah	62.1	2,174	36.9%	3,500,920	98.9%
5	Oklahoma	61.0	2,512	14.3%	4,118,993	99.9%
6	West Virginia	60.5	934	15.6%	1,542,126	87.3%
7	Colorado	60.0	3,578	24.7%	5,960,853	99.1%
8	Michigan	55.4	5,435	35.7%	9,809,193	96.9%
9	New Mexico	54.2	1,081	7.4%	1,996,020	93.9%
10	Nevada	53.4	1,746	19.0%	3,270,673	99.6%
11	South Dakota	49.8	418	16.3%	839,130	89.7%
12	Texas	49.1	15,442	24.2%	31,431,832	99.1%
13	Ohio	47.4	5,256	16.2%	11,096,234	93.2%
14	Kansas	47.1	1,328	21.2%	2,822,529	94.8%
15	Illinois	47.0	5,660	12.7%	12,042,483	94.7%
16	North Dakota	46.7	369	32.2%	789,819	98.8%
17	Nebraska	45.2	907	25.8%	2,006,672	99.4%
18	Idaho	45.2	904	47.3%	2,002,230	98.6%
19	Wyoming	43.2	235	33.6%	544,425	92.5%
20	Missouri	41.9	2,594	27.8%	6,189,965	98.7%
21	Oregon	40.7	1,704	26.6%	4,188,755	98.0%
22	Washington	39.8	3,104	31.3%	7,803,528	97.5%
23	Arizona	38.7	2,884	13.0%	7,457,428	97.8%
24	Minnesota	38.2	2,226	32.3%	5,818,696	99.8%
25	Iowa	37.0	1,163	32.2%	3,142,936	97.1%
26	Vermont	36.7	236	36.0%	643,250	99.8%
27	Tennessee	36.6	2,666	32.4%	7,285,816	99.6%
28	New Hampshire	36.2	512	19.3%	1,413,950	99.9%
29	Kentucky	35.4	1,629	43.4%	4,606,403	100.0%
30	South Carolina	34.7	1,866	41.9%	5,367,423	96.4%
31	Indiana	34.3	2,098	27.7%	6,110,151	87.6%
32	Hawaii	34.3	492	33.1%	1,432,820	100.0%
33	California	34.1	13,423	25.2%	39,340,551	100.0%
34	Rhode Island	33.3	368	22.3%	1,101,063	98.8%
35	Maryland	32.8	2,056	36.4%	6,265,347	100.0%
36	Louisiana	32.5	1,172	25.4%	3,602,534	78.0%
37	Wisconsin	32.3	1,874	48.6%	5,798,929	97.1%
38	Georgia	30.7	3,144	20.8%	10,234,544	90.5%
39	Alabama	30.3	1,560	32.3%	5,154,746	99.3%
40	Mississippi	30.1	724	14.4%	2,406,163	81.5%
41	Maine	28.5	397	24.4%	1,395,502	98.6%
42	Massachusetts	27.3	1,946	27.6%	7,138,345	99.8%
43	Pennsylvania	27.0	3,501	46.4%	12,954,848	99.2%
44	New York	26.9	5,313	35.8%	19,756,731	98.8%
45	Florida	26.8	5,318	35.5%	19,799,628	84.4%
46	North Carolina	26.4	2,860	31.0%	10,816,211	96.6%
47	Virginia	25.2	2,236	50.4%	8,878,997	100.0%
48	District of Columbia	24.8	172	79.7%	693,645	100.0%
49	Delaware	19.1	202	93.6%	1,059,908	100.0%
50	New Jersey	16.9	1,572	17.2%	9,317,069	97.6%
51	Connecticut	16.0	589	27.3%	3,688,496	100.0%

How the rate is computed

Rate denominator: the population the reporting agencies served, which is the FBI’s own population figure for the state multiplied by the share of it those agencies covered. It is not the state’s resident population, and it is the same denominator the FBI uses to compute its own rates. The coverage column is that share; a state below 90% is not measuring the same thing as a state near 100%.

How to read this

Rape is among the least reported offenses to police, and the share reported is not the same everywhere. A state low on this list may be one where fewer people were raped or one where fewer went to the police, and the figure the FBI publishes cannot separate those.
The FBI revised its definition in 2013. Figures before and after that are not the same measure, which is why this page ranks a single year rather than showing change.
Rates, not counts. Ranking by the number of offenses would rank states by how many people live in them.
The thinnest rate here rests on 172 offenses, in District of Columbia. One more would move that state’s rate by a fraction of a percent, so the bottom of a ranking built on counts that small is a statement about how few were reported rather than about how they compare.
The coverage column is the share of the state’s population living in a reporting agency’s jurisdiction. Below 90%, both the count and the rate describe part of the state, and a state sits where it does partly because fewer of its agencies reported.
The District of Columbia is a single city and is ranked alongside states because the FBI reports it that way. Comparing a city with a state mixes urban and rural populations in a proportion no state has.
A jurisdiction that reported no rape rate for 2025 is not listed. An absent row means the FBI published no rate, not a rate of zero.
Reporting to the FBI is voluntary. A state lower on this list may be one where less was reported to police, not one where less happened, and this data cannot tell those apart.
This offense is part of the violent crime total and is not additional to it.

The same ranking for every other offense

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