Murder rate
Estimated murders and nonnegligent manslaughters known to law enforcement per 100,000 inhabitants. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
UCR definition: the willful killing of one human being by another, excluding deaths caused by negligence, suicides, accidents and justifiable homicides. For other countries use homicide_rate (UNODC). Per 100,000 inhabitants of the population the FBI uses, as published by the FBI, not Invokely population figures. FBI estimates for the whole population: agencies that did not report, or reported part of the year, are filled in by the FBI. The FBI revises earlier years in each annual release, and from 2021 the estimates are built from incident-based (NIBRS) reports. The national series has no values for 2017 to 2020 in the FBI estimates file.
Key facts
- Murder rate in the United States was 4.1 per 100,000 people in 2025, according to FBI.
- District of Columbia had the highest murder rate of 51 states in 2025, at 16.7 per 100,000 people, and New Hampshire the lowest, at 1.2 per 100,000 people. Source: FBI.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 1979 to 2025.
Rankings
US states by murder rate, 2025
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- New Mexico
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest murder rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"murder_rate","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=murder_rate&level=region&within=United%20States