Ranking of United States Cities By Number of Total Crimes in 2020

Updated on January 9, 2025.

According to the FBI UCR data, in 2020, the US city with the highest number of Total Crimes was New York, NY (177,320); followed by Houston, TX (128,049); Los Angeles, CA (117,808); San Antonio, TX (68,862); and Phoenix, AZ (65,032).

The chart below shows the top 10 cities with high number of Total crimes in 2020, and the table below shows the ranking of the top 500 cities with high number of Total crimes in the United States.

You can see similar rankings of cities for other crime types in the United States.

Related Topics: US FBI UCR 2020 Topic List.
Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of US Cities By Number of Total Crimes in 2020
New York, NY
177,320
Houston, TX
128,049
Los Angeles, CA
117,808
San Antonio, TX
68,862
Phoenix, AZ
65,032
Dallas, TX
58,668
Memphis, TN
51,864
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV
46,522
Chicago, IL
45,915
San Francisco, CA
43,910
Ranking of US Cities By Number of Total Crimes in 2020
Rank
City
Number of Crimes
1 New York, NY 177,320
2 Houston, TX 128,049
3 Los Angeles, CA 117,808
4 San Antonio, TX 68,862
5 Phoenix, AZ 65,032
6 Dallas, TX 58,668
7 Memphis, TN 51,864
8 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV 46,522
9 Chicago, IL 45,915
10 San Francisco, CA 43,910
11 Seattle, WA 42,633
12 Austin, TX 41,127
13 Denver, CO 40,783
14 Indianapolis, IN 39,908
15 Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC 39,226
16 Detroit, MI 36,310
17 Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN 36,077
18 Albuquerque, NM 35,889
19 Portland, OR 35,176
20 Columbus, OH 33,594
21 Jacksonville, FL 32,965
22 Washington, DC 31,287
23 Oklahoma City, OK 30,792
24 Fort Worth, TX 30,575
25 San Diego, CA 29,846
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