US states by murders

California had the highest murders of 51 states in 2024, at 1,654. Wyoming had the lowest, at 14. The median was 231 and the figure for the United States was 17,206. Source: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Highest1,654California

Lowest14Wyoming

Median23151 states

United States17,206History

Map of states, 2024

Under 40
40 to 110
110 to 230
230 to 410
410 to 590
590 and over

count, 2024. 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, 2024

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

Full ranking

Rank	States	2024 count	Change on 2023
1	California	1,654	-15%
2	Texas	1,647	-12.7%
3	Florida	925	-16.3%
4	North Carolina	840	-4%
5	Georgia	770	-7%
6	Illinois	748	-10.5%
7	Pennsylvania	684	-21.6%
8	Ohio	618	-12.8%
9	New York	598	-8.6%
10	Tennessee	585	-18.5%
11	Michigan	498	-16.6%
12	Missouri	494	-15%
13	Louisiana	482	-28%
14	Alabama	472	-12.3%
15	Maryland	461	-14.8%
16	Virginia	438	-19%
17	South Carolina	426	-11.4%
18	Arizona	407	-16.1%
19	Indiana	406	+3.3%
20	Washington	303	-19.8%
21	Kentucky	292	-0.3%
22	Colorado	277	-12.9%
23	Oklahoma	259	+1.6%
24	Wisconsin	258	-12.8%
25	Arkansas	234	-20.4%
26	New Jersey	231	-14.8%
27	New Mexico	226	-9.6%
28	Nevada	210	-10.3%
29	Mississippi	207	-2.8%
30	District of Columbia	181	-32%
31	Minnesota	173	-5.5%
32	Oregon	164	-14.1%
33	Massachusetts	130	-13.3%
34	Kansas	116	-25.6%
35	West Virginia	106	0%
36	Utah	94	+19%
37	Connecticut	90	-34.8%
38	Iowa	74	-6.3%
39	Delaware	61	+32.6%
40	Alaska	51	-13.6%
41	Nebraska	45	-34.8%
42	South Dakota	40	+53.8%
43	Idaho	35	-30%
43	Montana	35	-2.8%
45	Hawaii	34	-5.6%
46	Maine	33	-45%
47	Rhode Island	23	-20.7%
47	Vermont	23	+35.3%
49	North Dakota	20	-28.6%
50	New Hampshire	14	-44%
50	Wyoming	14	-26.3%

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, 2024) [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, 2024. 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=2024. 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, 2024. 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=2024.

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, 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/murders/us-states?period=2024 (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, 2024}},
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  urldate = {2026-10-18},
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Which state has the highest murders?

California, with 1,654 in 2024, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Which state has the lowest murders?

Wyoming, with 14 in 2024.

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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.