US states by murders

California had the highest murders of 51 states in 2014, at 1,700. Vermont had the lowest, at 10. The median was 164 and the figure for the United States was 14,164. Source: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Highest1,700California

Lowest10Vermont

Median16451 states

United States14,164History

Map of states, 2014

Under 30
30 to 90
90 to 160
160 to 330
330 to 490
490 and over

count, 2014. 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, 2014

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

Full ranking

Rank	States	2014 count	Change on 2013
1	California	1,700	-2.6%
2	Texas	1,192	+4.6%
3	Florida	982	+1%
4	Illinois	690	-4.4%
5	New York	616	-4.3%
6	Pennsylvania	610	-0.2%
7	Georgia	607	+7.8%
8	Michigan	544	-13%
9	North Carolina	498	+7.6%
10	Louisiana	476	-3.6%
11	Ohio	464	-2.9%
12	Missouri	404	+9.5%
13	Tennessee	369	+10.1%
14	Maryland	362	-5.7%
15	New Jersey	352	-12.9%
16	Virginia	350	+9.4%
17	Indiana	333	-6.7%
18	South Carolina	322	+5.6%
19	Arizona	311	-12.4%
20	Alabama	276	-20.2%
21	Mississippi	259	+19.4%
22	Oklahoma	180	-9.1%
23	Washington	178	+6.6%
24	Arkansas	175	+10.8%
25	Nevada	170	+4.3%
26	Kentucky	164	-4.7%
27	Wisconsin	159	-2.5%
28	Colorado	150	-13.8%
29	Massachusetts	133	-3.6%
30	District of Columbia	105	+1.9%
31	New Mexico	101	-17.9%
32	Kansas	92	-21.4%
33	Connecticut	89	-2.2%
34	Minnesota	88	-22.8%
35	Oregon	84	+2.4%
35	West Virginia	84	+35.5%
37	Utah	66	+29.4%
38	Iowa	60	+46.3%
39	Nebraska	53	-5.4%
40	Delaware	50	+22%
41	Alaska	41	+20.6%
42	Montana	38	+65.2%
43	Idaho	32	+10.3%
44	Rhode Island	26	-16.1%
45	North Dakota	23	+43.8%
45	South Dakota	23	+27.8%
47	Maine	21	-12.5%
48	Hawaii	20	-37.5%
49	New Hampshire	16	-23.8%
49	Wyoming	16	-5.9%
51	Vermont	10	0%

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, 2014) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads

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FBI UCR Summary Reporting System estimated crimes, 1979 on: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, US states by murders, 2014. 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?period=2014. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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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, 2014. 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?period=2014.

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, 2014 [Dataset]. Available at: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states?period=2014 (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, 2014}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads},
  urldate = {2026-10-18},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states?period=2014. Publisher attribution: 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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Which state has the highest murders?

California, with 1,700 in 2014, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Which state has the lowest murders?

Vermont, with 10 in 2014.

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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.