Expanded Homicide Data Table 3
Murder Offenders
by Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity, 2017
Age | Total | Sex | Race | Ethnicity1 | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Unknown | White |
Black or African American |
Other2 | Unknown |
Hispanic or Latino |
Not Hispanic or Latino |
Unknown | ||
Total | 17,251 | 10,665 | 1,443 | 5,143 | 5,125 | 6,444 | 314 | 5,368 | 1,505 | 6,324 | 5,353 |
Percent distribution3 | 100.0 | 61.8 | 8.4 | 29.8 | 29.7 | 37.4 | 1.8 | 31.1 | 11.4 | 48.0 | 40.6 |
Under 184 | 803 | 730 | 73 | 0 | 295 | 488 | 10 | 10 | 113 | 401 | 73 |
Under 224 | 2,932 | 2,626 | 284 | 22 | 1,045 | 1,766 | 57 | 64 | 430 | 1,494 | 267 |
18 and over4 | 10,669 | 9,264 | 1,351 | 54 | 4,736 | 5,464 | 301 | 168 | 1,336 | 5,621 | 1,082 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
9 to 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
13 to 16 | 405 | 365 | 40 | 0 | 151 | 242 | 5 | 7 | 56 | 199 | 40 |
17 to 19 | 1,467 | 1,327 | 135 | 5 | 524 | 903 | 21 | 19 | 224 | 755 | 123 |
20 to 24 | 2,519 | 2,222 | 279 | 18 | 858 | 1,545 | 63 | 53 | 347 | 1,298 | 251 |
25 to 29 | 2,053 | 1,764 | 282 | 7 | 826 | 1,152 | 54 | 21 | 274 | 1,068 | 227 |
30 to 34 | 1,465 | 1,259 | 197 | 9 | 676 | 718 | 52 | 19 | 184 | 786 | 148 |
35 to 39 | 1,062 | 916 | 145 | 1 | 543 | 472 | 33 | 14 | 132 | 546 | 107 |
40 to 44 | 754 | 627 | 123 | 4 | 387 | 330 | 26 | 11 | 81 | 398 | 80 |
45 to 49 | 566 | 480 | 86 | 0 | 323 | 214 | 20 | 9 | 60 | 289 | 61 |
50 to 54 | 421 | 357 | 57 | 7 | 233 | 159 | 18 | 11 | 34 | 249 | 37 |
55 to 59 | 335 | 290 | 43 | 2 | 213 | 109 | 8 | 5 | 31 | 182 | 32 |
60 to 64 | 179 | 163 | 16 | 0 | 110 | 61 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 102 | 17 |
65 to 69 | 93 | 84 | 9 | 0 | 69 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 55 | 7 |
70 to 74 | 53 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 9 |
75 and over | 92 | 85 | 6 | 1 | 72 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 61 | 15 |
Unknown | 5,779 | 671 | 19 | 5,089 | 94 | 492 | 3 | 5,190 | 56 | 302 | 4,198 |
- 1 Not all agencies provide ethnicity data; therefore, the race and ethnicity totals will not equal.
- 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.