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Since 1996, editions of Crime in the United States have been available on the FBI’s Web site, www.fbi.gov. First released in Portable Document Format (PDF) files, more recent editions have been published as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program staff are committed to improving their annual publications so that the data they collect can better meet the needs of law enforcement, criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice who use the statistics for varied administrative, research, and planning purposes. For more information about how the UCR Program collects data, see About the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

Data provided

Crime in the United States, 2017, presents data tables containing information on the topics listed below. Data users can download Microsoft Excel spreadsheets of the data tables and PDFs of most of the text.

Offenses Known to Law Enforcement—Includes information about violent crime offenses (murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) and property crime offenses (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson).

Expanded offense data—Provides additional data that the program collects on the eight offenses. Depending on the offense, these details may include the type of weapon and the type and value of items stolen. For the offense of murder, expanded homicide data include information about murder victims, offenders, and weapons that are collected as supplemental homicide data.

Clearances—Furnishes information about crimes “solved” either by arrest or exceptional means.

Persons Arrested—Provides the number of arrests made by law enforcement and the age, race, and ethnicity of arrestees for the 28 offenses (see Offense Definitions) for which the UCR Program publishes arrest data.

Police Employee Data—Supplies information regarding sworn officers and civilian law enforcement personnel.

Agency counts

The table below shows the number of law enforcement agencies eligible to participate in the UCR Program within each population group for 2017. Information published in Crime in the United States, 2017, reflects data from these agencies.

Population Group 

Number of Agencies 

Population Covered 

I (250,000 inhabitants and more) 

84 

62,498,807 

II (100,000 to 249,999 inhabitants) 

225 

33,546,021 

III (50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants) 

500 

34,879,741 

IV (25,000 to 49,999 inhabitants) 

912 

31,623,110 

V (10,000 to 24,999 inhabitants) 

1,933 

30,843,626 

VI (Less than 10,000 inhabitants)1, 2 

9,822 

26,458,902 

VIII (Nonmetropolitan County)2 

2,853 

27,453,750 

IX (Metropolitan County)2 

2,218 

78,415,221 

Total 

18,547 

325,719,178 

1Includes universities and colleges to which no population is attributed. 
2Includes state police to which no population is attributed.

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) participation

Currently, 36 states are certified to report data via the NIBRS. Among agencies within those states, 41 percent reported all of their statistics via the NIBRS. This represented 34 percent of the U.S. population covered by UCR participants and accounted for 27 percent of all crime reported to the UCR Program.

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What you won't find in this publication

Rankings by crime levels—Any comparisons of crime among different locales should take into consideration numerous other factors besides the areas’ crime statistics. Therefore, the UCR Program does not provide rankings of localities by crime levels. Caution Against Ranking provides more details concerning the proper use of UCR statistics.

Information about unreported crime—Crime in the United States features data collected from law enforcement agencies regarding only those offenses known to police. However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), another agency within the Department of Justice, administers the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Using data from the NCVS, the BJS publishes information regarding crimes not reported to the police. For more information about the NCVS and how its data differ from information presented in Crime in the United States, see The Nation’s Two Crime Measures.

County crime totals and “raw data”—Crime in the United States offers crime data from local and county law enforcement agencies in separate tables. These data, which are also presented individually within a county (Crime by County), and other 2017 “raw data” from the UCR Program’s master files will be available sometime after the release of the 2017 publication. For more information, contact the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at crimestatsinfo@fbi.gov.

Special studies—In previous years, Crime in the United States included special studies analyzing UCR data. Such studies are now released separately from the publication as monographs on www.fbi.gov.

Crime data for 2018—Preliminary statistics for January through June 2018 will be available on the Web in early 2019. Crime in the United States, 2018, will be published on the Web in the fall of 2019.

Suggested reference citation

The following is a suggested citation style for data users who need to reference information from this report:

United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. (September 2018). Crime in the United States, 2017. Retrieved (insert date), from (insert URL for data cited).

Data Tables

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Offenses

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Clearances

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Persons Arrested

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Police Employee Data

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Expanded Offense Data

Robbery Table 1
Robbery Table 2
Robbery Table 3
Aggravated Assault Table
Larceny-theft Table
Motor Vehicle Theft Table
Arson Table 1
Arson Table 2

Expanded Homicide Data

Expanded Homicide Data Table 1
Expanded Homicide Data Table 2
Expanded Homicide Data Table 3
Expanded Homicide Data Table 4
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