States by violent crime rate

All 51 jurisdictions the FBI reports on — the states and the District of Columbia — ranked by reported violent crime per 100,000 residents in 2025. The national rate was 317.6.

American Factbook Research

Violent crime per 100,000 residents · 2025

Rate denominator: the FBI’s own population estimate for the agencies that reported, published alongside the counts. It is not the state’s resident population, and it is the same denominator the FBI uses to compute its own rates.

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States and the District of Columbia ranked by reported violent crime rate, 2025
Rank	State	Violent rate	Offenses	Population covered	Coverage
1	District of Columbia	806.0	5,591	693,645	100.0%
2	Alaska	733.5	5,408	737,270	99.7%
3	New Mexico	608.4	12,932	2,125,498	93.9%
4	Arkansas	526.9	16,413	3,114,791	98.4%
5	Tennessee	496.8	36,343	7,315,076	99.6%
6	Kansas	450.9	13,423	2,977,220	94.8%
7	California	434.7	171,068	39,355,309	100.0%
8	Colorado	434.3	26,115	6,012,561	99.1%
9	Montana	422.0	4,831	1,144,694	100.0%
10	Missouri	420.1	26,342	6,270,541	98.7%
11	Michigan	417.3	42,267	10,127,884	96.9%
12	Oklahoma	411.2	16,954	4,123,288	99.9%
13	Nevada	382.4	12,551	3,282,188	99.6%
14	South Carolina	375.5	20,916	5,570,274	96.4%
15	Arizona	374.7	28,564	7,623,818	97.8%
16	Maryland	365.0	22,870	6,265,347	100.0%
17	New York	363.5	72,708	20,002,427	98.8%
18	Louisiana	362.7	16,748	4,618,189	78.0%
19	Delaware	351.9	3,730	1,059,952	100.0%
20	Alabama	350.2	18,186	5,193,088	99.3%
21	Texas	345.8	109,658	31,709,821	99.1%
22	North Carolina	319.3	35,759	11,197,968	96.6%
23	Oregon	312.8	13,367	4,273,586	98.0%
24	Massachusetts	300.3	21,484	7,154,084	99.8%
25	South Dakota	293.7	2,746	935,094	89.7%
26	Washington	284.4	22,751	8,001,020	97.5%
27	Georgia	272.9	30,844	11,302,748	90.5%
28	Ohio	268.4	31,946	11,900,510	93.2%
29	Indiana	263.3	18,360	6,973,333	87.6%
30	Illinois	243.9	31,021	12,719,141	94.7%
31	Wisconsin	237.4	14,178	5,972,787	97.1%
32	North Dakota	237.3	1,897	799,358	98.8%
33	West Virginia	232.1	4,099	1,766,147	87.3%
34	Iowa	231.2	7,486	3,238,387	97.1%
35	Pennsylvania	227.4	29,703	13,059,432	99.2%
36	Minnesota	225.5	13,149	5,830,405	99.8%
37	Utah	222.4	7,871	3,538,904	98.9%
38	Nebraska	221.5	4,469	2,018,006	99.4%
39	Vermont	219.5	1,415	644,663	99.8%
40	Idaho	218.3	4,431	2,029,733	98.6%
41	Kentucky	214.2	9,870	4,606,864	100.0%
42	Hawaii	213.7	3,062	1,432,820	100.0%
43	Virginia	210.4	18,681	8,880,107	100.0%
44	Florida	209.9	49,237	23,462,518	84.4%
45	New Jersey	193.6	18,485	9,548,215	97.6%
46	Mississippi	182.5	5,392	2,954,160	81.5%
47	Wyoming	173.2	1,020	588,753	92.5%
48	Rhode Island	144.1	1,606	1,114,521	98.8%
49	New Hampshire	119.1	1,685	1,415,342	99.9%
50	Connecticut	111.1	4,098	3,688,496	100.0%
51	Maine	93.7	1,326	1,414,874	98.6%

How to read this

Rates, not counts. Ranking by the number of offenses would rank states by how many people live in them.
The coverage column is the share of the state’s population living in a reporting agency’s jurisdiction. A state below 90% is not measuring the same thing as a state near 100%, and its position in this table reflects that as much as it reflects crime.
Violent crime is the FBI’s category: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. It is the FBI’s own aggregation, not a sum we computed.
The District of Columbia is a single city and is ranked alongside states here because the FBI reports it that way. Comparing a city with a state mixes urban and rural populations that no state has in the same proportion.
These are offenses reported to police. A state where more crime is reported to police can rank above a state where less is, at the same underlying level of crime.

Sources

FBI Crime Data Explorer API — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-19
apps/web/queries/crime/states_by_violent_crime_rate.sql

Data retrieved September 19, 2026