{"chart":{"slug":"crime-rates-by-state-since-1985","title":"How has crime changed in your state since 1985?","takeaway":"Choose any state to see its violent and property crime rates each year since 1985, next to the U.S. rate, as police reported them to the FBI. It opens with California: police there reported about 435 violent crimes per 100,000 people in 2025, against a peak of 1,121 in 1992. A state's year is left out when police departments covering fewer than 3 in 4 of its people reported a full year, as in California and many other states in 2021, when the FBI took only reports from its newer system (NIBRS) and many departments hadn't switched. Rates count only the agencies that reported.","topic":"Crime","chart_type":"line","ranking":false,"x_label":"Year","y_label":"Violent crimes per 100,000 people","unit":null,"points_count":40,"source":{"name":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program","url":"https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work); source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program","url":"https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright"},"data_as_of":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-10-17T18:50:40.849Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985/embed","credit":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985)","credit_html":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"1985","value":765.4},{"label":"1986","value":920.6},{"label":"1987","value":918.2},{"label":"1988","value":931.9},{"label":"1989","value":977.0},{"label":"1990","value":1043.0},{"label":"1991","value":1088.4},{"label":"1992","value":1120.7},{"label":"1993","value":1078.1},{"label":"1994","value":1013.3},{"label":"1995","value":950.6},{"label":"1996","value":863.6},{"label":"1997","value":798.1},{"label":"1998","value":703.7},{"label":"1999","value":627.5},{"label":"2000","value":622.1},{"label":"2001","value":616.9},{"label":"2002","value":594.1},{"label":"2003","value":579.6},{"label":"2004","value":550.6},{"label":"2005","value":526.3},{"label":"2006","value":534.3},{"label":"2007","value":524.0},{"label":"2008","value":504.2},{"label":"2009","value":473.4},{"label":"2010","value":440.6},{"label":"2011","value":411.6},{"label":"2012","value":423.1},{"label":"2013","value":396.2},{"label":"2014","value":390.7},{"label":"2015","value":426.2},{"label":"2016","value":445.4},{"label":"2017","value":451.8},{"label":"2018","value":447.4},{"label":"2019","value":440.7},{"label":"2020","value":442.1},{"label":"2022","value":502.8},{"label":"2023","value":526.7},{"label":"2024","value":478.5},{"label":"2025","value":434.9}],"annotations":[],"note":"This chart is a lookup: the data is the item it opens with; look up others on the chart page."},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/crime-rates-by-state-since-1985)"}