List of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate

This is a list of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate. US territories can be found at List of countries by intentional homicide rate. The homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year; a homicide rate of 4 in a population of 100,000 would mean 4 murders a year, or 0.004% out of the total. The data is from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),Homicide Mortality by State. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). At the bottom under 'Additional Datasets' find 'Summary Reporting System (SRS)' and click 'Download'. Rates are found by dividing the number of homicides by the population figure given, and multiplying by 100,000.

The CDC reports a slightly higher rate, as it reports all homicides, and does not indicate whether it was justified or self-defense. From the Reason Foundation: "While the FBI data relies on reports by law enforcement agencies, the CDC data is derived from coroners' reports, encompassing non-criminal homicides such as cases of self-defense. Consequently, the CDC mortality data shows a slightly higher number of homicides annually compared to the FBI data." The agency quotes below make more sense in light of this.

FBI: "The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines murder and non-negligent manslaughter as the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another. The classification of this offense is based solely on police investigation as opposed to the determination of a court, medical examiner, coroner, jury, or other judicial body. The UCR Program does not include the following situations in this offense classification: deaths caused by negligence, suicide, or accident; justifiable homicides; and attempts to murder or assaults to murder, which are classified as aggravated assaults."

CDC: "Homicide – injuries inflicted by another person with intent to injure or kill, by any means. Excludes injuries due to legal intervention and operations of war. Justifiable homicide is not identified in WISQARS." Scroll down to '5.1.1b Intent Categories'. WISQARS is short for Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System.

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Homicide rates by year: FBI data

Note: The location links in this table, as in all the tables below, are "Crime in LOCATION" links, except for Maine.

The following list shows homicide rates for the most recent five years. Data are from the FBI.

+ Homicides per 100,000 people by year. FBI Location 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 5.0 5.1 6.5 6.8 6.3 5.9 5.0 22.8 23.4 28.2 41.0 29.3 38.7 25.5 11.4 11.7 15.8 19.6 16.1 14.6 10.8 7.3 8.8 7.8 12.9 12.0 11.8 10.5 7.8 7.9 9.6 9.4 10.9 10.5 8.7 7.5 7.5 9.6 10.2 8.6 10.0 7.9 9.8 9.4 11.8 10.2 10.1 9.4 7.8 8.1 8.8 10.5 11.4 11.2 8.9 7.5 5.5 6.2 8.0 9.4 8.1 8.0 7.5 7.2 10.0 10.6 9.3 7.8 7.2 7.4 7.4 7.8 10.6 11.0 10.2 9.6 7.3 8.1 9.0 9.1 11.0 8.5 8.7 7.2 6.4 9.4 6.7 6.1 9.5 8.0 6.9 6.2 5.7 8.8 7.9 8.2 7.5 6.9 5.5 6.9 7.4 7.6 6.7 6.3 6.3 6.7 4.7 5.7 7.6 6.8 7.3 6.1 5.6 5.1 7.2 8.3 6.8 6.4 6.1 7.1 6.7 9.1 9.1 7.8 6.6 5.8 4.8 4.8 7.4 9.7 4.8 4.4 5.7 6.2 5.5 7.5 7.2 6.2 5.7 5.5 4.2 5.6 6.6 6.0 4.6 6.0 5.3 4.6 4.9 6.6 7.1 6.7 6.1 5.2 5.6 5.8 7.6 7.6 6.9 5.9 5.2 6.1 5.3 7.9 8.4 7.9 6.7 5.0 5.1 5.0 7.0 7.5 6.1 6.0 5.0 5.4 5.4 6.9 6.7 6.8 6.5 4.9 4.9 5.2 6.1 6.6 7.3 6.2 4.8 1.4 1.8 4.5 3.0 4.3 2.8 4.7 3.8 4.0 5.1 6.2 6.4 5.4 4.5 4.4 4.3 5.6 6.0 5.7 5.0 4.5 3.0 3.2 5.3 5.6 5.3 5.0 4.2 5.2 5.2 5.9 4.3 5.0 4.8 3.9 4.2 3.3 3.4 4.8 4.6 5.3 3.8 3.1 2.7 3.9 4.3 5.0 4.8 3.8 2.1 2.8 2.9 4.8 4.5 4.5 3.7 1.8 1.8 2.2 1.4 3.4 2.6 3.4 1.9 2.3 3.4 3.6 3.2 3.2 2.9 2.9 2.9 4.2 4.4 4.0 3.3 2.7 3.5 3.0 5.0 3.3 4.5 3.2 2.7 2.4 3.3 4.2 1.8 3.5 3.5 2.6 2.0 2.4 3.1 2.8 2.0 2.3 2.6 2.4 3.0 3.9 4.3 3.8 3.8 2.4 2.4 2.2 3.1 3.1 2.6 3.2 2.4 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.5 2.2 4.3 2.3 3.2 3.0 3.7 4.1 3.1 2.9 2.3 2.3 2.3 3.6 2.9 3.2 3.5 2.1 1.5 2.5 3.0 3.4 1.5 2.6 2.1 2.2 2.2 3.5 2.3 1.7 2.5 2.1 2.0 2.2 2.3 1.9 2.1 2.1 1.8 1.9 1.6 2.2 2.3 2.7 2.5 1.6 2.8 2.6 2.9 1.6 2.1 2.5 1.6 1.6 2.4 0.9 0.9 1.8 1.8 1.0

Homicide rates by year: CDC data

The CDC now has data for later years.Homicide Mortality. Stats of the States. From National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2024 homicide rate for the US as a whole is 5.9 per 100,000 according to CDC FastStats.https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm FastStats - Homicide]. From National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

+ Homicides per 100,000 people by year. CDC.State2017201820192020202112.912.212.814.215.910.67.510.87.36.46.66.15.97.58.19.89.19.41311.75.14.84.56.16.44.64.74.35.86.33.22.83.14.64.86.96.86.19.911.36.46.66.77.87.47.97.78.110.511.42.53.12.53.32.732.31.72.52.2988.111.212.37.27.47.29.79.63.42.72.73.63.26.55.94.976.47.36.15.99.59.614.413.314.719.921.3N/AN/A1.81.61.710.29.31011.412.22.62.32.32.72.36.36.56.58.78.72.22.32.83.64.312.713.415.420.523.711.311.410.81412.44.34.23.76.64.42.71.93.14.13.67.67.75.57.38.5N/A1.82.8N/AN/ANew Hampshire. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.4.13.73.44.34.88.510.811.810.815.333.23.24.74.86.96.478.69.7N/A2.53.14.43.47.56.86.69.19.38.578.898.93.12.533.84.96.66.46.18.59.2N/AN/A2.533.69.310.21112.713.44.23.93.66.55.38.89.29.211.512.25.85.45.97.68.22.62.22.62.92.7N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AVermont. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.5.45.15.36.47.23.63.73.24.24.530.0Washington, D.C.. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.6.55.85.776.93.73.94.26.16.4N/A4.14.44.9N/AWyoming. National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Homicide rates by type: CDC data

The following list shows homicide rates by mechanism, for types where total deaths exceeded 100. Data are from the CDC and average the years 2018 to 2021. Blank values indicate that the underlying homicide count was between 1 and 9, and was suppressed. Excludes unspecified or unclassified data types, but the "Total" includes all deaths including suppressed, unspecified and/or unclassified data.

+ Homicide per 100,000 people by mechanism. CDC. Average of 2018 to 2021 Location Total 6.7 5.2 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 25.7 20.4 2.5 0.0 17.2 14.9 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.1 16.5 13.9 0.9 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 12.9 11.0 0.7 0.2 0.1 11.5 8.0 1.4 0.2 11.4 9.7 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.2 11.1 9.3 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.1 10.3 8.0 0.9 0.2 0.2 10.2 8.3 0.6 0.1 0.1 10.1 8.5 0.6 0.2 0.0 9.5 8.0 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 9.2 7.6 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 8.1 5.0 1.1 0.5 0.5 0.0 8.1 6.4 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.1 8.1 6.0 0.7 0.2 7.7 6.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 7.6 6.3 0.5 7.5 6.0 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 7.4 6.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 7.1 5.8 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.1 7.0 5.0 0.6 0.2 0.1 7.0 5.4 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.0 6.7 5.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 6.6 4.8 0.7 0.2 0.1 6.5 5.1 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 5.8 4.7 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0 5.8 4.4 0.4 5.8 4.5 0.4 0.0 5.4 3.9 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 5.3 3.7 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 4.8 3.6 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.0 4.4 2.5 0.5 0.3 4.4 2.2 0.9 0.3 3.9 2.6 0.5 0.1 0.1 3.8 2.4 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.8 2.6 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 3.8 2.5 0.0 0.0 3.6 2.3 0.5 0.1 0.1 3.5 2.4 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.0 3.1 2.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 3.1 2.0 0.4 0.0 3.1 2.1 0.3 0.1 0.0 2.8 1.8 0.2 0.1 2.8 1.3 0.5 2.6 1.8 0.2 0.1 2.5 1.7 0.4 0.0 2.4 1.5 0.4 0.1 2.1 1.4 0.2 0.1 1.9 1.2 0.0 1.6 0.9 0.0 1.5 0.9

Homicide rates by decade: FBI data

The following list shows homicide rates by decade, averaging the rates for each year. Data are from the FBI. Data for the 2020s are for 2020 to 2022.

+ Homicides per 100,000 people by decade. FBI Location 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 8.7 8.1 5.6 4.9 6.6 37.7 67.3 35.8 19.2 32.8 13.6 16.5 12.4 11.1 17.2 9.7 9.3 7.4 7.3 11.0 10.7 9.6 7.8 6.6 10.9 8.8 9.0 6.4 7.8 10.7 8.2 9.7 6.3 6.4 10.6 10.4 10.5 7.5 7.2 10.0 9.4 11.2 9.1 7.7 9.6 9.4 9.7 6.9 6.5 9.5 11.2 12.2 8.2 7.8 9.2 9.1 10.2 6.6 6.4 8.7 8.7 9.6 6.3 5.4 8.5 11.9 9.8 6.9 6.0 8.3 5.5 6.0 5.5 5.3 8.0 10.9 7.8 5.1 6.2 7.5 7.8 6.3 4.6 4.8 7.4 10.5 8.9 6.4 6.0 7.4 5.2 4.1 4.0 5.4 7.3 8.2 7.6 5.6 5.7 7.3 6.3 7.4 5.6 5.4 7.0 6.0 5.4 4.5 4.8 6.9 13.9 10.1 6.0 4.7 6.8 8.1 8.6 7.4 5.5 6.8 12.5 10.9 7.7 6.1 6.7 7.7 7.8 5.3 4.7 6.7 6.2 5.1 3.6 3.3 5.9 11.3 10.3 6.4 4.7 5.8 5.4 5.2 3.7 4.4 5.7 3.1 4.2 3.1 3.1 5.4 12.3 8.0 5.7 5.2 5.1 5.0 4.6 3.0 2.7 4.4 5.1 6.0 4.2 3.8 4.3 3.8 3.4 3.0 3.2 4.2 11.4 9.8 4.6 3.3 4.2 5.0 4.0 2.2 2.4 4.1 4.8 4.9 3.1 2.9 4.0 2.1 1.7 2.5 2.6 3.9 5.7 4.7 4.3 3.9 3.6 2.3 3.1 2.3 1.9 3.4 3.1 3.3 3.0 2.8 3.2 1.3 1.2 1.6 2.6 3.1 4.9 3.5 2.6 2.6 2.9 3.2 3.0 2.1 2.1 2.6 3.8 3.5 3.0 2.4 2.6 2.1 1.8 1.6 2.0 2.5 3.2 3.0 2.1 2.0 2.4 2.7 2.2 1.9 1.7 2.3 4.8 3.7 2.1 2.0 2.2 3.6 3.1 2.6 2.3 2.1 2.5 1.9 1.5 1.7 1.7 2.4 1.9 1.2 1.4 1.2

Homicide totals by year: FBI data

The following list shows homicide totals for the most recent five years. Data are from the FBI.

+ Homicides by year. FBI Location 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 16,374 16,669 21,570 22,536 21,156 1,739 1,690 2,203 2,346 2,231 1,327 1,432 1,931 2,087 2,026 1,107 1,122 1,290 937 1,113 784 676 1,009 1,087 1,020 902 851 1,151 1,150 982 647 605 943 851 893 574 653 852 995 862 562 565 808 871 783 533 547 734 907 740 596 584 820 883 718 555 576 754 761 695 417 447 524 573 638 599 576 723 630 624 508 515 663 709 609 411 455 549 590 592 383 390 471 476 552 491 545 553 680 526 383 397 513 485 500 418 373 505 490 427 236 205 301 331 387 215 229 294 360 375 175 189 308 332 314 222 237 321 334 312 250 229 323 374 306 285 263 329 381 286 215 275 296 304 270 153 185 164 273 253 214 298 315 274 228 202 144 180 239 216 160 166 201 274 197 86 117 125 204 192 107 127 190 203 182 138 153 160 134 148 86 107 140 155 136 122 95 100 142 134 76 100 117 108 81 47 69 49 45 70 63 77 102 94 67 44 45 69 57 62 70 70 111 73 53 34 28 41 43 53 37 32 54 36 50 46 47 73 97 49 12 16 40 27 39 40 37 41 23 30 23 22 22 20 30 18 25 32 14 27 21 33 12 13 25 11 11 14 9 22 16 26 32 37 16 14 13 18 18 15

List of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate

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