Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2016

Updated on October 3, 2024.

According to the FBI UCR data, in 2016, among US states and DC, California had the highest number of Violent Crimes (174,796), followed by Texas (121,064), and Florida (88,700).

The chart below shows the top 10 states, and the table below shows the ranking of all states.

You can see similar rankings for other crime types.

Related Topics: US FBI UCR 2016 Topic List.
Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2016
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Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2016
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Rank State Number of Crimes
1 California 174796
2 Texas 121064
3 Florida 88700
4 New York 74315
5 Illinois 56054
6 Michigan 45782
7 Tennessee 42459
8 Pennsylvania 40389
9 Georgia 40268
10 North Carolina 37767
11 Ohio 35759
12 Arizona 32542
13 Missouri 31720
14 Maryland 29019
15 Indiana 26516
16 Louisiana 26477
17 Massachusetts 25975
18 Alabama 25878
19 South Carolina 25137
20 Washington 22101
21 New Jersey 21861
22 Nevada 19924
23 Colorado 19030
24 Virginia 18495
25 Oklahoma 17855
26 Wisconsin 17716
27 Arkansas 16563
28 New Mexico 14585
29 Minnesota 13365
30 Kansas 11665
31 Oregon 10983
32 Kentucky 10452
33 Iowa 9170
34 Mississippi 8411
35 District of Columbia 8236
36 Connecticut 8169
37 Utah 7406
38 West Virginia 6633
39 Alaska 5966
40 Nebraska 5661
41 Delaware 4859
42 Montana 3886
43 Idaho 3876
44 South Dakota 3636
45 Hawaii 3452
46 New Hampshire 2668
47 Rhode Island 2529
48 North Dakota 1905
49 Maine 1649
50 Wyoming 1431
51 Vermont 851