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Arson Table 1

Arson Rate

by Population Group, 2018

[13,856 agencies; 2018 estimated population 276,033,731; rate per 100,000 inhabitants]

Population group Rate
TOTAL ALL AGENCIES 12.5
TOTAL CITIES 14.3
Group I (250,000 and over) 23.1
1,000,000 and over (Group I subset) 20.8
500,000 to 999,999 (Group I subset) 25.1
250,000 to 499,999 (Group I subset) 23.7
Group II (100,000 to 249,999) 13.9
Group III (50,000 to 99,999) 11.7
Group IV (25,000 to 49,999) 9.1
Group V (10,000 to 24,999) 8.5
Group VI (under 10,000) 14.2
Metropolitan counties 8.7
Nonmetropolitan counties 9.1
Suburban areas1 8.6
  • 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.