Crime & communities
City Crime Over Time
Explore reported violent and property crime across the three selected largest places in each state. Compare trends without assuming that one rate tells the whole story.
Explore a city's history
Select a city to see its available 2019–2024 crime data. Unknown means complete, comparable data is unavailable for that year. Rates use police reporting populations, which may differ from city boundaries.
Reported crime: 2019–2024
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Agency reporting-area rates over time
Reported offenses per 100,000 people in the reporting agency's stated population. These are not citywide rates, and they should not be compared with Census-city populations. Lines connect available agency years only; gaps are not filled.
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Sources, definitions and reporting limitations
Important: These are offense counts reported by a candidate police agency associated with the selected place, not verified citywide crime rates. Police service areas can differ from Census city boundaries. This table does not imply that the selected city had exactly these counts.
Only agency-years with 12 months of violent- and property-crime reporting and no flagged reporting outliers are shown. The table shows offense counts and rates calculated from each agency-year population; if violent and property population denominators differ, the displayed population is the violent-crime denominator. These figures should not be used to rank Census cities. The preliminary figures are derived from an FBI-derived public-data copy; they have not all been reconciled with original agency submissions. This comparison uses data preserved in the American Factbook archive; verify figures with the FBI Crime Data Explorer before citation.
Property-crime definitions: The source publisher describes its property-crime category as including arson. The FBI’s archived 2019 Table 8 excludes arson from property-crime totals. These series are not interchangeable. The source export’s underlying monthly calculations have not been independently verified.
Official California comparison: State DOJ records are now available for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, 2019–2024. Some differ substantially from this preliminary export. San Jose’s 2023 state file contains only January–October. Review the official counts, month coverage, and source differences.
Reporting changes: The FBI shifted toward NIBRS-only collection in 2021, so changes around that year may reflect differences in agency participation or reporting methods as well as changes in reported offenses. FBI reporting-system background.
Boise: additional historical rates (2000–2024)
Boise Police Department also publishes this separate historical series. These rates are per 1,000 people; the main chart above uses rates per 100,000. The series use different source definitions and should be read separately.
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Source: Boise Police Department 2024 annual report, page 3. Values preserve the report’s rounding. Its chart does not supply annual population denominators or full category definitions; cross-source comparability remains unresolved.
Blue: violent crime. Orange: property crime. Use the crime-category selector above to show either series.
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Verified Census-city rates — separate dataset
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Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents, not a person's individual risk. Changes in agency participation, offense definitions, and jurisdiction boundaries can make years noncomparable.
Verified Census-city year-by-year records
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What the numbers can and cannot tell us
The FBI cautions against ranking communities based solely on reported crime. Participation, population, local conditions, and changes in reporting methods all matter. The FBI's transition toward NIBRS, as well as changes to the definition of rape, affect some historical comparisons.
Our city selection reuses the population-based top-three shortlist from City Economies. A Census place and a police reporting jurisdiction are not necessarily the same geography; each match must be checked before a rate is published.
Historical mayor and state-party records from City Economies may be shown as context after jurisdiction and year matching. Political affiliation alone cannot establish why crime rates changed.
Primary research: FBI Crime Data Explorer · Census population estimates. Missing values are not zero.