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Between 2021 and 2022, violent crime decreased in 35 states and Washington, DC. The greatest annual increases were in New York (39.2%), Alabama (17.4%), and Vermont (14.4%), while the largest decreases in violent crime rates occurred in Florida (23.3), Kentucky (20.4%), and Illinois (16.7%).
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
U.S. News ranks states based on violent crime rate. See which states have the lowest violent crime rates.
Crime rates in the state are driven up by high concentrations of violence in some cities. Both the Pine Bluff and Little Rock metropolitan areas' violent crime rates -- at 1,098 and 939 incidents for every 100,000 residents, respectively -- are far higher than the national average.
Crime rates vary across the country, but our analysis reveals the most and least dangerous states in the U.S. The states with the worst crime rates are New Mexico and Arkansas.
Is your state safe? US News ranks the safest states to live in, based on violent crime rates and property crime rates. See which states are most dangerous.
This map visualizes the rate of violent crime per 100,000 individuals by U.S. state in 2022, with the figures from the FBI. The data is current as of October 2023. The FBI national crime statistics for 2022 are based on data received from 16,100 of 18,930 participating law enforcement agencies in the country that year.
Rates vary broadly among states. Maine saw the lowest rate of violent crime based on the FBI’s data (103 per 100,000 in 2022), while New Mexico saw the highest (780 per 100,000).
This page lists key statistics from the latest annual crime report published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The report, published on October 16, 2023, includes data on crime at the national, state, and local levels for 2022 along with comparisons against previous years.
In 2022, the District of Columbia had the highest reported violent crime rate in the United States, with 812.3 violent crimes per 100,000 of the population.