Figures
- Clearance
- This figure shows the percentages of violent and property crimes cleared by arrest or exceptional means in 2019. Among violent crimes, the individual offenses and their respective clearance percentages are murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, 61.4 percent; rape (revised definition), 32.9 percent; robbery, 30.5 percent; and aggravated assault, 52.3 percent. Of property crimes, the individual offenses and their respective clearance percentages are burglary, 14.1 percent; larceny-theft, 18.4 percent; and motor vehicle theft, 13.8 percent.
- Crime Clock
- This representation of crime data shows the relative frequency of how often violent and property crime offenses occurred in 2019. (Note that the Crime Clock should not be taken to imply regularity in the commission of crime. The Crime Clock represents the annual ratio of crime to fixed time intervals.) A violent crime was committed every 26.3 seconds. A murder occurred every 32.1 minutes, a rape every 3.8 minutes, a robbery every 2.0 minutes, and an aggravated assault every 38.5 seconds. A property crime offense was committed every 4.6 seconds. A burglary offense occurred every 28.3 seconds, a larceny-theft every 6.2 seconds, and a motor vehicle theft every 43.8 seconds.
- Expanded Homicide
- Murder by relationship figure: In this figure, bar graphs and a pie chart visually represent the relationships of murder victims to their offenders. The statistics are based on the supplementary homicide data that law enforcement agencies submitted to the FBI for 13,927 murder victims who were slain in 2019. Pie chart: Of the homicides that occurred in 2019 for which supplementary homicide data were received, the relationships of the murder victims to their offenders were as follows: 1,810 victims (13.0 percent) were slain by family members; 1,372 victims (9.9 percent) were murdered by strangers; and 3,937 victims (28.3 percent) were slain by “other known” offenders. The offenders were not known for 6,808 murder victims (48.9 percent). Bar graphs: The first bar graph provides a breakdown of the 1,810 familial relationships of victims to offenders based on supplementary homicide data from 2019: 85 husbands were killed by their wives, 482 wives were slain by their husbands, 166 mothers were murdered by their children, 178 fathers were killed by their children, 259 sons were slain by their parents, 171 daughters were murdered by their parents, 115 brothers were killed by their siblings, 27 sisters were slain by their siblings, and 327 victims were murdered by other family members (i.e., familial relationships other than those mentioned above). A second bar graph depicts the 3,937 “other known” (that is, nonfamilial) relationships of victims to offenders based on supplementary homicide data from 2019: 2,778 victims were killed by acquaintances, 345 were slain by friends, 187 boyfriends were murdered by their girlfriends, 505 girlfriends were killed by their boyfriends, 100 victims were slain by their neighbors, 13 employers were murdered by their employees, and 9 employees were killed by their employers.
- Larceny-theft
- This figure is a pie chart that breaks down (by percent distribution) the types of larceny-thefts that occurred in 2019. In the nation, 27.0 percent of larceny-theft offenses were from motor vehicles (except accessories), 22.2 percent were shoplifting, 10.0 percent were from buildings, 6.5 percent were motor vehicle accessories, 3.1 percent were bicycles, 0.6 percent were pocket-picking, 0.4 percent were purse-snatching, and 0.2 percent were from coin-operated machines. All other larceny-thefts accounted for the remaining 29.9 percent.
- Property Crime
- This figure is a line graph that presents the trend in the estimated number of property crimes for the nation from 2015 to 2019. In 2015, there were 8,024,115 property crimes. In 2016, there were 7,928,530 property crimes. In 2017, there were 7,682,988 property crimes. In 2018, there were 7,219,084 property crimes. In 2019, there were 6,925,677 property crimes. The figure is based on statistics from Table 1.
- Regional Crime Rates
- This figure is a bar graph that presents the number of property and violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants for the four regions of the nation in 2019, along with a map that defines the four regions by shading. The regional rates for violent and property crimes per 100,000 inhabitants were as follows: in the Northeast, 1,350.4 property crimes and 292.4 violent crimes; in the Midwest, 1,935.4 property crimes and 361.7 violent crimes; in the South, 2,355.3 property crimes and 406.6 violent crimes; and in the West, 2,411.7 property crimes and 413.5 violent crimes. The statistics for this figure are derived from Table 4.
- Regions Map
- This map illustrates the four regions of the United States along with their nine geographic divisions as established by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Robbery Locations
- This figure is a pie chart that shows the percentages of robbery offenses by location type in 2019. In the nation, 34.3 percent of robbery offenses occurred on streets or highways, 16.7 percent occurred at commercial houses, 15.8 percent occurred at residences, 6.6 percent occurred at convenience stores, 3.0 percent occurred at gas or service stations, 1.4 percent occurred at banks, and 22.2 percent occurred at miscellaneous locations.
- Violent Crime
- This figure is a line graph that presents trends in the estimated number of violent crimes for the nation from 2015 through 2019. In 2015, there were 1,199,310 violent crimes. In 2016, there were 1,250,162 violent crimes. In 2017, there were 1,247,917 violent crimes. In 2018, there were 1,209,997 violent crimes. In 2019, there were 1,203,808 violent crimes. The figure is based on statistics from Table 1.
