US Crime Rate Index (2025)
A single 0–100 Crime Index (higher = safer) for all 50 states plus DC and 759 US cities, built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025. See the safest and most dangerous places, or read the full methodology.
Crime Index
9 of 51 states (50 states + DC) carry a limited-data flag for 2025 — see the methodology for what that means.
Cities
States
Crime by type
Rank cities by a single offense's rate per 100,000 residents, instead of the blended Crime Index.
Browse by state
All 50 states plus DC, A–Z.
No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →