Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2020
Updated on January 9, 2025.
According to the FBI UCR data, in 2020, among US states and DC, California had the highest number of Violent Crimes (174,026), followed by Texas (131,084), and Florida (83,368).
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.
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Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of US States By Number of Violent Crimes in 2020
Rank | State | Number of Crimes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 174,026 |
| 2 | Texas | 131,084 |
| 3 | Florida | 83,368 |
| 4 | New York | 70,339 |
| 5 | Illinois | 53,612 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 49,793 |
| 7 | Michigan | 47,641 |
| 8 | Tennessee | 46,328 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 44,451 |
| 10 | Georgia | 42,850 |
| 11 | Ohio | 36,104 |
| 12 | Arizona | 35,980 |
| 13 | Missouri | 33,385 |
| 14 | Louisiana | 29,704 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 27,691 |
| 16 | Colorado | 24,570 |
| 17 | Maryland | 24,215 |
| 18 | Indiana | 24,161 |
| 19 | Washington | 22,596 |
| 20 | Alabama | 22,322 |
| 21 | Massachusetts | 21,288 |
| 22 | Arkansas | 20,363 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 18,861 |
| 24 | Oklahoma | 18,255 |
| 25 | Virginia | 17,925 |
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