Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2017

Updated on October 3, 2024.

According to the FBI UCR data, in 2017, among US states and DC, California had the highest number of Violent Crimes (178,597), followed by Texas (123,984), and Florida (85,606).

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 2017 Topic List.
Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2017
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Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2017
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Rank State Number of Crimes
1 California 178597
2 Texas 123984
3 Florida 85606
4 New York 70746
5 Illinois 55777
6 Michigan 44883
7 Tennessee 43940
8 Pennsylvania 40030
9 North Carolina 38043
10 Georgia 37118
11 Arizona 35647
12 Ohio 34621
13 Missouri 32450
14 Maryland 30321
15 Indiana 26307
16 Louisiana 25986
17 Alabama 25469
18 South Carolina 25412
19 Massachusetts 24318
20 Washington 22483
21 Colorado 20901
22 New Jersey 20604
23 Wisconsin 18638
24 Oklahoma 17989
25 Virginia 17811
26 Arkansas 16996
27 Nevada 16663
28 New Mexico 16300
29 Minnesota 13345
30 Kansas 11654
31 Oregon 11629
32 Kentucky 10292
33 Iowa 9038
34 Connecticut 8190
35 Mississippi 7661
36 Utah 7515
37 District of Columbia 6976
38 West Virginia 6564
39 Alaska 6338
40 Nebraska 5979
41 Delaware 4377
42 Idaho 4111
43 Montana 3937
44 South Dakota 3753
45 Hawaii 3577
46 New Hampshire 2642
47 Rhode Island 2474
48 North Dakota 2133
49 Maine 1610
50 Wyoming 1358
51 Vermont 1082