{"chart":{"slug":"rape-rate-by-state","title":"Which states have the highest reported rape rates?","takeaway":"In 2025 Alaska had the highest rate of rapes reported to police, about 122 per 100,000 people, followed by Arkansas (72) and Montana (64). Connecticut (16), New Jersey (17) and Delaware (19) had the lowest; the U.S. rate was about 37. Many rapes are never reported, so these rates show reports, not how often rape happens, and they use the FBI's broader definition adopted in 2013. Rates count only the police agencies that reported to the FBI; in a few states, such as Florida and Mississippi, those cover only about 80 to 85% of residents. Since 2021, when the FBI began taking only its newer NIBRS reports, state rates don't line up exactly with earlier years.","topic":"Crime","chart_type":"bar","ranking":true,"x_label":"State","y_label":"Reported rapes per 100,000 people","unit":null,"points_count":52,"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":"2026-10-10T16:12:35.584Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/rape-rate-by-state","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/rape-rate-by-state","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/rape-rate-by-state/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/rape-rate-by-state/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/rape-rate-by-state/embed","credit":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/rape-rate-by-state)","credit_html":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/rape-rate-by-state\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":"U.S. overall","zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"Alaska","value":121.8},{"label":"Arkansas","value":72.4},{"label":"Montana","value":63.8},{"label":"Utah","value":62.1},{"label":"Oklahoma","value":61.0},{"label":"West Virginia","value":60.5},{"label":"Colorado","value":60.0},{"label":"Michigan","value":55.4},{"label":"New Mexico","value":54.2},{"label":"Nevada","value":53.4},{"label":"South Dakota","value":49.8},{"label":"Texas","value":49.1},{"label":"Ohio","value":47.4},{"label":"Kansas","value":47.1},{"label":"Illinois","value":47.0},{"label":"North Dakota","value":46.7},{"label":"Nebraska","value":45.2},{"label":"Idaho","value":45.1},{"label":"Wyoming","value":43.2},{"label":"Missouri","value":41.9},{"label":"Oregon","value":40.7},{"label":"Washington","value":39.8},{"label":"Arizona","value":38.7},{"label":"Minnesota","value":38.3},{"label":"U.S. overall","value":37.1},{"label":"Iowa","value":37.0},{"label":"Vermont","value":36.7},{"label":"Tennessee","value":36.6},{"label":"New Hampshire","value":36.2},{"label":"Kentucky","value":35.4},{"label":"South Carolina","value":34.7},{"label":"Hawaii","value":34.3},{"label":"Indiana","value":34.3},{"label":"California","value":34.1},{"label":"Rhode Island","value":33.4},{"label":"Maryland","value":32.8},{"label":"Louisiana","value":32.5},{"label":"Wisconsin","value":32.3},{"label":"Georgia","value":30.7},{"label":"Alabama","value":30.3},{"label":"Mississippi","value":30.1},{"label":"Maine","value":28.4},{"label":"Massachusetts","value":27.3},{"label":"Pennsylvania","value":27.0},{"label":"New York","value":26.9},{"label":"Florida","value":26.8},{"label":"North Carolina","value":26.4},{"label":"Virginia","value":25.2},{"label":"District of Columbia","value":24.8},{"label":"Delaware","value":19.1},{"label":"New Jersey","value":16.9},{"label":"Connecticut","value":16.0}],"annotations":[]},"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/rape-rate-by-state)"}