US states by murders
California had the highest murders of 50 states in 2022, at 2,248. Wyoming had the lowest, at 15. The median was 297 and the figure for the United States was 21,781. Source: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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- 750 and over
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All states, 2022
Full ranking
| Rank | States | 2022 | Change on 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 2,248 | -4.2% |
| 2 | Texas | 2,075 | -0.6% |
| 3 | Florida | 1,195 | +27.5% |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | 1,055 | -2.9% |
| 5 | Illinois | 997 | -13.3% |
| 6 | Georgia | 913 | +7.3% |
| 7 | North Carolina | 871 | -12.5% |
| 8 | New York | 802 | -7.9% |
| 9 | Louisiana | 758 | -16.4% |
| 10 | Ohio | 737 | -16.5% |
| 11 | Michigan | 697 | -8.4% |
| 12 | Tennessee | 647 | -8.7% |
| 13 | Virginia | 641 | +11.9% |
| 14 | Missouri | 631 | +0.2% |
| 15 | Maryland | 604 | -11.2% |
| 16 | Alabama | 588 | +23.5% |
| 17 | South Carolina | 559 | -5.3% |
| 18 | Arizona | 517 | +6.6% |
| 19 | Indiana | 467 | -4.7% |
| 20 | Washington | 400 | +20.8% |
| 21 | Colorado | 372 | +3.3% |
| 22 | Kentucky | 328 | -12.3% |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 322 | -3% |
| 24 | New Jersey | 316 | -17.1% |
| 25 | Arkansas | 313 | -6.3% |
| 26 | Oklahoma | 280 | -7.9% |
| 27 | New Mexico | 259 | -5.1% |
| 28 | Nevada | 227 | -5% |
| 29 | Mississippi | 223 | -18.6% |
| 30 | District of Columbia | 204 | -25.5% |
| 31 | Oregon | 201 | -1.5% |
| 32 | Minnesota | 183 | -9.9% |
| 33 | Massachusetts | 150 | +11.9% |
| 34 | Kansas | 140 | -1.4% |
| 35 | Connecticut | 136 | -12.3% |
| 36 | West Virginia | 95 | -12% |
| 37 | Utah | 75 | -20.2% |
| 38 | Alaska | 70 | +55.6% |
| 39 | Nebraska | 61 | +7% |
| 40 | Iowa | 60 | -17.8% |
| 41 | Idaho | 53 | +23.3% |
| 42 | Montana | 52 | +44.4% |
| 43 | Delaware | 49 | -49.5% |
| 44 | South Dakota | 40 | +48.1% |
| 45 | Maine | 30 | +50% |
| 46 | Hawaii | 29 | +26.1% |
| 47 | New Hampshire | 27 | +107.7% |
| 48 | Vermont | 22 | +144.4% |
| 49 | Rhode Island | 18 | -51.4% |
| 50 | Wyoming | 15 | -16.7% |
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. 1 states with data in other periods have no value for 2022 and are left out rather than filled from another source. 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.Citation styles
APA 7
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, 2022) [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, 2022. 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=2022. 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, 2022. 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=2022.
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, 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states?period=2022 (Accessed: 18 October 2026).
BibTeX
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Which state has the highest murders?
California, with 2,248 in 2022, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Which state has the lowest murders?
Wyoming, with 15 in 2022.
Where does this ranking come from?
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. 1 states have no value for 2022 and are not ranked.