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Expanded Homicide Data Table 2
Murder Offenders
by Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity, 2016
Age | Total | Sex | Race | Ethnicity1 | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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.