US states by murders

California had the highest murders of 51 states in 2019, at 1,690. Vermont had the lowest, at 11. The median was 205. Source: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Highest1,690California

Lowest11Vermont

Median20551 states

Map of states, 2019

Under 30
30 to 100
100 to 210
210 to 390
390 to 580
580 and over

count, 2019. 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, 2019

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

Full ranking

Rank	States	2019 count	Change on 2018
1	California	1,690	-2.8%
2	Texas	1,432	+7.9%
3	Florida	1,122	+1.4%
4	Illinois	851	-5.7%
5	Pennsylvania	676	-13.8%
6	North Carolina	653	+13.8%
7	Georgia	605	-6.5%
8	Ohio	584	-2%
9	Michigan	576	+3.8%
9	Missouri	576	-3.8%
11	New York	565	+0.5%
12	Louisiana	547	+2.6%
13	Maryland	545	+11%
14	Tennessee	515	+1.4%
15	South Carolina	455	+10.7%
16	Virginia	447	+7.2%
17	Arizona	397	+3.7%
18	Alabama	390	+1.8%
19	Indiana	373	-10.8%
20	Mississippi	298	+39.3%
21	Oklahoma	275	+27.9%
22	New Jersey	263	-7.7%
23	Arkansas	237	+6.8%
24	Colorado	229	+6.5%
24	Kentucky	229	-8.4%
26	Washington	205	-13.1%
27	Wisconsin	189	+8%
28	New Mexico	185	+20.9%
29	District of Columbia	166	+3.8%
30	Massachusetts	153	+10.9%
31	Nevada	144	-28.7%
32	Minnesota	127	+18.7%
33	Oregon	117	+36%
34	Connecticut	107	+24.4%
35	West Virginia	100	+31.6%
36	Kansas	95	-22.1%
37	Utah	77	+22.2%
38	Iowa	70	0%
39	Alaska	69	+46.8%
40	Delaware	47	+2.2%
41	Nebraska	45	+2.3%
42	Hawaii	37	-7.5%
43	New Hampshire	33	+57.1%
44	Montana	32	-13.5%
45	Idaho	28	-17.6%
46	Rhode Island	26	+62.5%
47	North Dakota	25	+38.9%
48	Maine	22	-4.3%
49	South Dakota	16	+33.3%
50	Wyoming	13	-7.1%
51	Vermont	11	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, 2019) [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, 2019. 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=2019. 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, 2019. 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=2019.

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, 2019 [Dataset]. Available at: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states?period=2019 (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, 2019}},
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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?

California, with 1,690 in 2019, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Which state has the lowest murders?

Vermont, with 11 in 2019.

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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.