Police-recorded offenses & household victimization · United States
Violent crime rate
327.6
2025 · Offenses per 100,000 people · annual
Property crime rate
1,534.8
2025 · Offenses per 100,000 people · annual
Murder rate
4.1
2025 · Offenses per 100,000 people · annual
Nonfatal violent victimization
23.3
2024 · Victimizations per 1,000 people age 12+ · annual
FBI estimates: 2025 · BJS survey: 2024. These measures have different definitions and denominators. Violent crime includes murder; do not add these readings together. FBI rates describe crimes known to police, while the survey includes unreported victimizations.
Crime over time
Event history begins in 2005 and is reviewed through 2026-09-18. Saved FBI estimates cover 2006–2025; the saved BJS victimization series covers 2007–2024. An event’s date is not a monthly crime observation.
Major events & context · A curated selection, including uncertain effects. Milestone dates do not establish that an event caused a change in crime.
Enacted / issuedDid not proceedPending / in progressStatus unclear
Annual estimates only. FBI 2021 is omitted because of reporting coverage; the gap does not mean zero crime. BJS survey rates have a different population and offense definition.
Colors show the latest recorded status. A bill passed by only one chamber remains pending; “issued” does not necessarily mean in effect.
Violent crime rateOffenses per 100,000 people · annual
Violent crime rate
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33 major events shown separately from crime readings. Hover to explore; click to pin. Press Escape to clear.
Each point is a calendar-year estimate placed at December 31, not a monthly reading. FBI 2021 is left blank because the source warns that coverage is not nationally representative or comparable. The violent-crime line also breaks at the expanded 2013 rape definition. Pre-2024 aggregate rates are sums of rounded published component rates; 2024–2025 use published totals. BJS history begins in 2007; vertical bars show 95% confidence intervals. The 2024 survey uses the legacy questionnaire.
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Violent crime rate · Offenses per 100,000 people · annual
Period
Value
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2025
327.6
2024
362.9
2023
381.6
2022
389.5
2021
Unavailable
2020
389.2
2019
368.6
2018
374.7
2017
386.5
2016
396.7
2015
382.1
2014
371.7
2013
378.9
2012
386.9
2011
386.6
2010
404.6
2009
430.4
2008
456.1
2007
469.9
2006
477.3
How major events are selected
33 curated milestones from 2005 cover reporting changes, major crime trends, sentencing, policing, victim protections and firearm law. This is a selection, not a complete inventory of crimes or justice policies. Each event explains whether its date marks a decision, enactment, effective date, report release or broader episode. Annual trends cannot establish that a law, president or event caused a change. Events are separate from the reviewed action counts; a law can appear at enactment here and at introduction in action records. Dates filter both collections; action type, status and search filter government records only. Sources checked 2026-09-18.
What makes up the crime rate?
Compare offense types within violent or property crime. A category’s effect on the total depends on its size as well as its percentage change; these shares measure frequency, not severity or social cost.
2025 compared with 2024 · FBI estimated offenses per 100,000 people
Offense
2025 rate
Share of category
Rate change
Aggravated assault
238.0
72.6%
-19.6 -7.6%
Robbery
49.4
15.1%
-11.6 -19.0%
Rape
36.1
11.0%
-3.1 -7.9%
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter
4.1
1.3%
-1.0 -19.6%
2021 is excluded because the FBI flags comparability problems. Any available years can be compared; selecting the same year gives zero change. Shares use the selected year’s total. Percentage changes are calculated from rounded rates; they may differ from FBI headline changes based on offense counts or unrounded rates. Both years use one report vintage, including its revisions.
Police records depend on an incident coming to law enforcement’s attention. The household survey provides a separate view of experiences, including incidents that people say were never reported.
Victimizations reported to police
2024 · Percentage of victimizations · BJS household survey
Type
Reported
Total violent crime
47.9%
Rape/sexual assault
23.6%
Robbery
73.4%
Aggravated assault
69.1%
Simple assault
40.4%
Total property crime
30.5%
Burglary/trespassing
40.7%
Motor vehicle theft
75.0%
Other theft
25.4%
Rows include overlapping totals and components; do not add them. Sampling uncertainty applies, especially to less common offenses. These are estimates, not exact reporting probabilities.
How much of the country reports?
96.2% of the population covered by participating agencies in the 2025 FBI release.
89.5% covered by agencies providing incident-based NIBRS data; the release also uses summary submissions.
Coverage matters for local comparisons. This page uses national estimates rather than treating participating-agency totals as a census of the country.
Two different denominators
FBI rates: offenses per 100,000 residents. BJS violent victimization: incidents per 1,000 people age 12 or older. The survey includes simple assault and excludes homicide. Dividing or subtracting these rates does not produce a valid reporting share.
In 2025, reporting law enforcement agencies cleared the following shares of offenses by arrest or exceptional means.
Violent crime
47.4%
Property crime
17.4%
Clearance does not mean conviction. These are reporting-agency statistics, not a follow-up of every case from 2025. More arrests alone do not establish either more crime or greater public safety.
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This starter collection links selected crime-reduction, enforcement and measurement actions to this topic. It is selective, not every government action. Dates can be introduction or announcement dates; statuses are the latest recorded status, not necessarily current legal effect. Collection reviewed 2026-09-18.
What candidates are saying
Explore statements about crime, victimization, policing and criminal justice from FactVote’s state candidate profiles. Compare candidates within each recorded race, with each person’s matching statements kept together. These are candidate and campaign statements, not verified outcomes.
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How statements are selected
We match explicit crime and victimization terms, including violent and property crime, homicide, robbery, burglary, theft and domestic or gun violence. Policing and criminal-justice context includes law enforcement, prevention, crime victims, recidivism, and sentencing or bail reform. Generic references to safety, justice or a candidate’s biography do not qualify on their own. A mention can concern a state, community or group rather than the national rate.
Matching is automatic and does not establish a candidate’s stance, the accuracy of a claim, or an effect on crime rates. Results are grouped by recorded race, then by candidate name. Within each candidate, crime and victimization mentions appear first. Only candidates with matching retained statements are shown; this is not a complete race roster. Repeated identical text for the same candidate is shown once. Coverage follows the existing state profiles and is not a complete record of all candidates or everything they have said. Review dates are not statement dates.
What incumbents are proposing
Explore how current members of Congress are sponsoring bills related to crime prevention, enforcement and reporting. This uses the same reviewed bill records as the timeline, grouped by primary sponsor.
1 matching bill · 1 sponsor. Filters here apply to this section only.
Sen. John Cornyn
1 bill
U.S. senator for TX · Texas
1 pending
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S. 1300 · Recorded bill date: Apr 3, 2025
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025
Introduced
Read summary & latest status
This bill would reauthorize the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. It would expand allowable uses of funds to include hiring crime analysts, overtime for specified personnel, technology, and support for multi-jurisdictional task forces. The Attorney General would be required to submit annual reports on funding use, community outreach, and specified violent-crime offenses.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
A primary sponsor introduces a bill. These counts exclude cosponsors and count each bill once per sponsor. A House bill and its Senate companion remain separate bills. Passing one chamber does not mean a bill became law.
Coverage is limited to the reviewed current-officeholder bills retained for this fact. “Current” reflects the source collection’s review, not a live check. Bill dates may be introduction dates. Counts do not measure policy effectiveness, support for a particular outcome, or an effect on crime outcomes. The timeline’s date and action filters do not limit this section.
Records reviewed Sep 18, 2026.
Sources & methods
FBI data use the August 2026 Reported Crimes in the Nation release: national estimates and component rates (pages 7–11), reporting participation (page 6) and clearances (page 12). National estimates account for incomplete submissions; they are not a count of all crimes experienced. The 2024 rates are revised in this release. Annual totals before 2024 are calculated from rounded components and can differ slightly from separately published totals.
BJS data use Criminal Victimization, 2024, Figure 1 and Table 4. Rates count victimizations among people age 12 or older, not unique victims. The 2024 estimates use the legacy instrument of a split-sample survey. The survey includes simple assault and unreported crime, but excludes homicide. Changes in estimates are not automatically statistically significant. Do not subtract the FBI rate from the BJS rate to estimate unreported crime.
National trends conceal local differences. Reporting practices, offense definitions, participation and survey uncertainty matter. Rates adjust for population size but are not personal risk predictions. These series do not cover every crime category, including many financial and online offenses.
Saved data checked 2026-09-18. No forecasts or partial-year estimates are joined to the annual history. Action records describe policy and measurement, not proven effects.
