Expanded Homicide Data Table 3

Murder Offenders

by Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity, 2017

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	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.

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