Expanded Homicide Data Table 2

Murder Offenders

by Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity, 2016

Age	Total	Sex			Race				Ethnicity¹
Age	Total	Male	Female	Unknown	White	Black or African American	Other²	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
Total	16,964	10,310	1,295	5,359	5,004	6,095	291	5,574	1,533	5,566	5,447
Percent distribution³	100.0	60.8	7.6	31.6	29.5	35.9	1.7	32.9	12.2	44.4	43.4
Under 18⁴	736	681	55	0	254	452	24	6	112	337	68
Under 22⁴	2,905	2,632	270	3	1,002	1,798	68	37	456	1,364	295
18 and over⁴	10,180	8,938	1,216	26	4,653	5,124	263	140	1,364	4,993	1,089
Infant (under 1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 to 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5 to 8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9 to 12	10	10	0	0	3	7	0	0	0	6	1
13 to 16	374	343	31	0	130	228	14	2	56	174	39
17 to 19	1,413	1,289	122	2	478	882	35	18	213	680	131
20 to 24	2,593	2,288	301	4	913	1,587	55	38	387	1,251	280
25 to 29	1,941	1,726	212	3	808	1,070	39	24	285	944	209
30 to 34	1,339	1,156	176	7	649	627	45	18	182	609	151
35 to 39	931	805	124	2	490	402	24	15	126	483	90
40 to 44	643	555	88	0	359	258	19	7	96	320	70
45 to 49	509	432	75	2	294	195	16	4	56	249	49
50 to 54	440	381	58	1	277	146	11	6	41	229	47
55 to 59	276	234	42	0	185	80	10	1	17	141	32
60 to 64	190	173	16	1	124	55	9	2	6	104	22
65 to 69	114	101	13	0	77	24	7	6	7	65	14
70 to 74	51	46	5	0	39	10	2	0	0	28	7
75 and over	92	80	8	4	81	5	1	5	4	47	15
Unknown	6,048	691	24	5,333	97	519	4	5,428	57	236	4,290

¹ Not all agencies provide ethnicity data; therefore, the ethnicity totals do not equal the total number of offenders.
² Includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
³ Because of rounding, the percentages may not add to 100.0.
⁴ Does not include unknown ages.

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