US states by murders, 2025

Texas had the highest murders of 51 states in 2025, at 1,465. Vermont had the lowest, at 10. The median was 182 and the figure for the United States was 14,085. Source: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Highest1,465Texas

Lowest10Vermont

Median18251 states

United States14,085History

Map of states, 2025

Under 30
30 to 100
100 to 180
180 to 330
330 to 470
470 and over

count, 2025. Source: FBI, FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2025

count. Source: FBI, FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2025 count	Change on 2024
1	Texas	1,465	-11.1%
2	California	1,370	-17.2%
3	Florida	748	-19.1%
4	North Carolina	723	-13.9%
5	Georgia	629	-18.3%
6	Illinois	556	-25.7%
7	Pennsylvania	543	-20.6%
8	Ohio	530	-14.2%
9	New York	473	-20.9%
9	Tennessee	473	-19.1%
11	Alabama	444	-5.9%
12	Missouri	443	-10.3%
13	Michigan	442	-11.2%
14	Louisiana	404	-16.2%
15	Virginia	369	-15.8%
16	South Carolina	355	-16.7%
17	Arizona	343	-15.7%
18	Maryland	329	-28.6%
19	Indiana	266	-34.5%
20	Wisconsin	235	-8.9%
21	Washington	233	-23.1%
22	Colorado	219	-20.9%
23	Mississippi	209	+1%
24	Oklahoma	204	-21.2%
25	Arkansas	196	-16.2%
26	New Mexico	182	-19.5%
27	New Jersey	178	-22.9%
28	Nevada	157	-25.2%
29	Kansas	142	+22.4%
30	Minnesota	129	-25.4%
31	Kentucky	127	-56.5%
32	Oregon	124	-24.4%
33	District of Columbia	116	-35.9%
34	Massachusetts	102	-21.5%
35	Utah	93	-1.1%
36	Connecticut	70	-22.2%
37	West Virginia	67	-36.8%
38	Iowa	52	-29.7%
39	Nebraska	46	+2.2%
40	Alaska	45	-11.8%
41	Delaware	43	-29.5%
42	Idaho	42	+20%
43	Montana	30	-14.3%
44	South Dakota	28	-30%
45	Maine	20	-39.4%
46	Rhode Island	19	-17.4%
47	Hawaii	17	-50%
47	New Hampshire	17	+21.4%
49	Wyoming	16	+14.3%
50	North Dakota	12	-40%
51	Vermont	10	-56.5%

Other periods

About this ranking

Estimated number of murders and nonnegligent manslaughters known to law enforcement. 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). 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.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer. FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program. (2026). FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter (US states by murders, 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads

MLA 9

FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, US states by murders, 2025. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 14 Aug. 2026, https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program. 2026. FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. US states by murders, 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states.

Harvard

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program (2026) FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, US states by murders, 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  title = {{FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: US states by murders, 2025}},
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  url = {https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads},
  urldate = {2026-10-18},
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Which state has the highest murders?

Texas, with 1,465 in 2025, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Which state has the lowest murders?

Vermont, with 10 in 2025.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter. Retrieved 2026-10-18.