Uniform Crime Report

Crime in the United States, 2019

Data Declaration
Table 16

Rate: Number of Crimes per 100,000 Inhabitants by Population Group,

2019

The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

Important note about rape data

In 2013, the FBI’s UCR Program initiated the collection of rape data under a revised
definition within the Summary Reporting System. The term “forcible” was removed from
the offense name, and the definition was changed to “penetration, no matter how slight,
of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of
another person, without the consent of the victim.”

In 2016, the FBI Director approved the recommendation to discontinue the reporting of
rape data using the UCR legacy definition beginning in 2017.

General comments

• This table provides the rate per 100,000 inhabitants and the number of offenses
known to law enforcement for violent crimes (murder and nonnegligent
manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crimes
(burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) nationally and by city and
county groupings for law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of
publishable data for 2019.

• The Nonmetropolitan Counties classification includes state police agencies that

report aggregately for the entire state.

• Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with fewer than
50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a
Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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• Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city.
The agencies associated with suburban areas also appear in other groups within
this table.

• The UCR Program does not have sufficient data to publish arson offenses in this
table. Information about arson can be found in Arson Tables 1 and 2.

Methodology

• Rape data reported by agencies using the UCR legacy definition are not included
in this table.

• Due to a system upgrade in 2019, the FBI calculates rates for each offense based
on the individual offenses and population that were published for each agency in
tables 8-11. (Previous to 2019, when agencies were published in tables 8-11, but
they had one or two offenses removed from publication due to not meeting UCR
publication guidelines, the agency’s data was not used to calculate rates for this
table.)

• The FBI derived the offense rates by first dividing the individual offense counts
by the individual populations covered by contributing agencies for which 12
months of publishable data were supplied and then multiplying the resulting
figure by 100,000.

Populations used to calculate violent crime rates

By Population Group, 2019

Murder and Rape Robbery Assault

Violent Crime total Nonnegligent Homicide
Population Group
Agency Agency Agency Agency Agency
count Population count Population count Population count Population count Population
Grand Total 12,730 279,536,935 12,721 279,321,521 12,709 279,018,775 12,729 279,424,554 12,728 279,497,051

TOTAL CITIES 9,195 194,512,905 9,192 194,342,817 9,180 194,253,008 9,194 194,400,524 9,193 194,473,021

GROUP I (250,000 and 83 60,188,585 83 60,188,585 83 60,188,585 83 60,188,585 83 60,188,585

over)
Cities 1,000,000 or over 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990

Cities from 500,000 24 17,433,188 24 17,433,188 24 17,433,188 24 17,433,188 24 17,433,188

thru 999,999
Cities from 250,000 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407
thru 499,999
GROUP II (100,000 to 212 30,850,549 211 30,740,351 211 30,687,252 211 30,738,168 212 30,850,549
249,999)
GROUP III (50,000 to 458 31,931,708 457 31,881,556 458 31,931,708 458 31,931,708 458 31,931,708
99,999)
GROUP IV (25,000 to 803 27,996,450 803 27,996,450 803 27,996,450 803 27,996,450 803 27,996,450
49,999)

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 GROUP V (10,000 TO 1,563 25,119,823 1,563 25,119,823 1,559 25,059,847 1,563 25,119,823 1,561 25,079,939
24,999)
GROUP VI (under 6,076 18,425,790 6,075 18,416,052 6,066 18,389,166 6,076 18,425,790 6,076 18,425,790
10,000)
METROPOLITAN 1,608 65,156,789 1,604 65,134,008 1,604 64,935,696 1,608 65,156,789 1,608 65,156,789
COUNTIES
NONMETROPOLITAN 1,927 19,867,241 1,925 19,844,696 1,925 19,830,071 1,927 19,867,241 1,927 19,867,241
COUNTIES
SUBURBAN AREAS 6,971 118,340,932 6,967 118,318,151 6,961 118,092,494 6,971 118,340,932 6,970 118,320,268

Populations used to calculate property crime rates

By Population Group, 2019

Property Crime total Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Theft

Population Group
Agency
Population Agency Agency Agency
count
count Population count Population count Population
Grand Total 12,730 279,536,935 12,704 278,387,019 12,720 279,320,446 12,726 278,744,544

TOTAL CITIES 9,195 194,512,905 9,182 193,726,208 9,187 194,354,748 9,191 193,720,514

GROUP I (250,000 and over) 83 60,188,585 82 59,626,665 83 60,188,585 82 59,489,644

Cities 1,000,000 or over 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990 10 26,216,990

Cities from 500,000 thru 999,999 24 17,433,188 23 16,871,268 24 17,433,188 23 16,734,247

Cities from 250,000 thru 499,999 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407 49 16,538,407

GROUP II (100,000 to 249,999) 212 30,850,549 212 30,850,549 212 30,850,549 212 30,850,549

GROUP III (50,000 to 99,999) 458 31,931,708 458 31,931,708 457 31,865,408 457 31,859,354

GROUP IV (25,000 to 49,999) 803 27,996,450 798 27,827,090 802 27,971,438 803 27,996,450

GROUP V (10,000 TO 24,999) 1,563 25,119,823 1,561 25,088,221 1,560 25,064,398 1,562 25,100,993

GROUP VI (under 10,000) 6,076 18,425,790 6,071 18,401,975 6,073 18,414,370 6,075 18,423,524

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES 1,608 65,156,789 1,596 64,803,397 1,607 65,112,211 1,608 65,156,789

NONMETROPOLITAN 1,927 19,867,241 1,926 19,857,414 1,926 19,853,487 1,927 19,867,241

COUNTIES
SUBURBAN AREAS 6,971 118,340,932 6,952 117,846,365 6,965 118,236,886 6,970 118,322,102

Population groups

The UCR Program uses the following population group designations:

Population Group Political Label Population Range

I City 250,000 and more

II City 100,000 to 249,999

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 III City 50,000 to 99,999

IV City 25,000 to 49,999

V City 10,000 to 24,999

VI1, 2 City Less than 10,000

VIII (Nonmetropolitan County)2 County N/A

IX (Metropolitan County)2 County N/A

1Includes universities and colleges to which no population is attributed.

2Includes state police to which no population is attributed.

Population estimation

For the 2019 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates
of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2010 decennial
population counts and 2011 through 2018 population estimates from the U.S. Census
Bureau. Each agency’s rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and
added to its 2018 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2019 population
estimate.

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