FBI Reports Violent Crime Dropped 4.5% in 2024
The FBI’s crime statistics estimates, based on reported data, show a violent crime occurred, on average, every 25.9 seconds in 2024.
The FBI is reporting that violent crime dropped 4.5% in 2024 when compared to 2023 statistics.
The FBI released detailed data this week on over 14 million criminal offenses committed in 2024, reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by participating law enforcement agencies. More than 16,000 state, county, city, university and college, and tribal agencies, covering a combined population of 95.6% United States population, submitted data to the UCR Program through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the Summary Reporting System.
The FBI’s crime statistics estimates, based on reported data, show a violent crime occurred, on average, every 25.9 seconds in 2024. The breakdown shows on average a murder occurred every 31.1 minutes and a rape occurred every 4.1 minutes.
National violent crime decreased an estimated 4.5% in 2024 compared to 2023 estimates:
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2024 estimated nationwide decrease of 14.9% compared to the previous year.
In 2024, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.2% decrease.
Aggravated assault figures decreased an estimated 3.0% in 2024.
Robbery showed an estimated decrease of 8.9% nationally.
In 2024, 16,419 agencies participated in the Hate Crime collection, population coverage of 95.1% of the U.S. population. Law enforcement agencies submitted incident reports involving 11,679 criminal incidents and 13,683 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
To publish a national trend, the FBI’s UCR Program used a dataset of reported hate crime incidents and reported zero incidents submitted by participating agencies reporting six or more common months of hate crime data to the FBI’s UCR Program for both 2023 and 2024. According to this dataset, reported hate crime incidents decreased 1.5 percent from 11,041 in 2023 to 10,873 in 2024.
The violent crime estimate published as part of “Crime in the United States” comprises murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault offenses.
Complete analysis is located on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.
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