About and method

Property Crime Trends shows property crime reported to police in the United States, by state, using official data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, published through the Crime Data Explorer. We are independent and do not sell security or insurance products.

What the numbers are

• Counts are offenses that agencies reported to the FBI. They are not estimates of all crime, and many thefts are never reported to police.
• State and US rates are offenses per 100,000 people living in areas served by reporting agencies, summed over the 12 months of each year as published by the FBI.
• Coverage is the share of the population served by agencies that reported. When coverage is below 80% we mark the year and leave it out of comparisons. This mostly affects 2021, when the FBI moved to the incident-based system (NIBRS).
• We show full years through 2025. Months in 2026 are still being submitted and revised, so we do not publish them yet.
• Property crime in this data is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson combined, as the FBI's Crime Data Explorer reports it.
• We do not compare two years when their coverage differs by more than 10 points, when a year looks incomplete (its rate is far below both neighboring years), or when a state's reported rate shifts by more than 35% in a single year, which usually signals a reporting change rather than a change in crime.
• Fewer agencies report arson. We compare and rank arson only when a state reported at least 50 arson offenses and its arson count did not drop sharply against 2015 to 2019.
• Rankings leave out states whose latest year has low coverage. States with equal rates share a rank.
• Clearances are offenses cleared by arrest or exceptional means during the year. They can include offenses from earlier years. We leave out clearance rates where the source has months with implausibly many clearances.

Corrections

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Updates

The FBI refreshes this data periodically. This edition uses the refresh of 15 October 2026. Last checked 29 October 2026.

Sources

1. FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, summarized reported offenses and clearances (monthly), retrieved through the CDE data service
2. FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program: offense definitions and data participation
3. FBI, National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) transition

Data refreshed by the FBI on 15 October 2026. Checked 29 October 2026. Figures are offenses reported to police and submitted to the FBI, not estimates of all crime.