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.
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Data Source: FBI UCR.
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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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