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Arson Table 1

Arson Rate

by Population Group, 2017

[14,813 agencies; 2017 estimated population 306,107,233; rate per 100,000 inhabitants]

Population group Rate
TOTAL ALL AGENCIES 13.2
TOTAL CITIES 14.9
Group I (250,000 and over) 20.9
1,000,000 and over (Group I subset) 15.0
500,000 to 999,999 (Group I subset) 27.0
250,000 to 499,999 (Group I subset) 24.4
Group II (100,000 to 249,999) 14.8
Group III (50,000 to 99,999) 13.0
Group IV (25,000 to 49,999) 10.6
Group V (10,000 to 24,999) 9.5
Group VI (under 10,000) 13.9
Metropolitan counties 9.6
Nonmetropolitan counties 9.3
Suburban areas1 9.6
  • 1 Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area. Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city. The agencies associated with suburban areas also appear in other groups within this table.