# Murder rate

Estimated murders and nonnegligent manslaughters known to law enforcement per 100,000 inhabitants. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

## 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.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-18.

- Indicator id: `murder_rate`
- Unit: per 100,000 people
- Note: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/murder-rate
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/murder_rate

## Latest figures

| Place | Period | per 100,000 people | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|
| United States | 2025 | 4.1 | Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer. FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rate per 100,000 inhabitants. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads. Retrieved 2026-10-18. |

## Rankings

- [US states](https://invokely.ai/rankings/murder-rate/us-states.md) (51 places)