US Crime Rate Index (2025)

One 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 — plus street-level crime for 28 major cities. Find the safest and most dangerous places, compare any two, or read the full methodology.

73/100

CModerate risk

Crime Index

Reported crime in the US is up 10% since 2021.

National reported crime, 2025. Population covered: 345,206,793 · 100% agency reporting · FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Violent crime

315/100k

Property crime

1,487/100k

Homicide

4.1/100k

All crime

1,802/100k

National crime trend

Reported crime per 100,000 residents · hover a year for detail

9 of 51 states (50 states + DC) carry a limited-data flag for 2025 — see the methodology for what that means.

Crime by neighborhood

Street-level breakdowns for 28 major cities — 1,591 neighborhoods, police districts and beats, ranked safest to most dangerous, from official municipal open-data portals.

Crime by type

Rank cities by a single offense's rate per 100,000 residents, instead of the blended Crime Index.

Cities With the Highest Murder Rate Cities With the Most Car Theft Cities With the Most Burglaries Cities With the Most Robberies Cities With the Most Aggravated Assault Cities With the Most Theft

Compare two cities head-to-head

Crime Index, violent vs property crime, offense breakdown and trend — side by side.

Which cities got safer?

Multi-year direction instead of a single-year snapshot — the biggest improvements and deteriorations across US cities.

Download the dataset

Every city, every offense count and the full rate series — free CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0. Republish it with credit.

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Crime Index — frequently asked questions

What is a crime index?

It is a single 0–100 score (higher = safer) that blends a place's reported violent and property crime rates per 100,000 residents and benchmarks them against the national average. It compresses eight separate FBI offense categories into one comparable number, so you can rank a city or state at a glance instead of reading a table of raw counts.

Where does the data come from?

Every city and state score is built from the FBI Crime Data Explorer (the national Summarized UCR/NIBRS release) for 2025, covering 759 cities and all 50 states plus DC. Neighborhood-level breakdowns come from each city's official police or open-data portal (Socrata, ArcGIS or CKAN), not the FBI — the FBI release has no sub-city geography.

Is FBI crime data reliable?

Agency reporting to the FBI is voluntary, so coverage varies: some states have gaps and carry a limited-data flag, and a city only earns a score if it has 50,000+ residents and its department reported for the year. We surface those caveats rather than hide them. For 2025, 9 of 51 states (50 states + DC) carry a limited-data flag.

What is the safest state in the US?

By this index for 2025, Maine is the safest state and District of Columbia is the most dangerous. See the full safest-states and most-dangerous-states rankings for the complete 0–100 order.

How is neighborhood-level crime measured?

For the 28 cities with street-level data, we rank each neighborhood, police district or beat by its violence-weighted reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted more heavily than property). Because reliable resident population is not available for most of these small areas, they are ranked relative to one another within the city rather than given a per-100,000 safety grade.

Does a low crime index mean a place is dangerous for me?

Not on its own. The index reflects reported crime across a whole city or state and cannot predict what happens on a single block or to a single person. Treat it as one signal among many — alongside local news, a visit, and neighborhood-level data where available — not a guarantee.

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 →

US Crime Rate Index (2025)

National crime trend

Cities

Safest cities in America

Most dangerous cities in America

States

Safest states

Most dangerous states