Aggravated Assault

by State, Types of Weapons, 2019

State	Total aggravated assaults¹	Firearms	Knives or cutting instruments	Other weapons	Personal weapons	Agency count	Population
Alabama²	73	17	6	17	33	2	85,670
Alaska	4,342	834	801	1,484	1,223	33	727,792
Arizona	20,173	5,206	3,033	4,327	7,607	96	6,308,226
Arkansas	11,551	3,657	1,456	2,546	3,892	243	2,501,782
California	102,822	17,341	16,098	34,424	34,959	731	38,767,853
Colorado	12,619	4,066	2,608	3,122	2,823	184	4,910,658
Connecticut	3,549	692	810	1,268	779	106	3,492,933
Delaware	2,962	1,102	552	1,029	279	52	970,535
District of Columbia	4,179	1,089	1,175	1,520	395	3	705,749
Florida	55,333	17,196	10,213	18,648	9,276	678	21,424,937
Georgia	6,171	2,122	794	1,359	1,896	168	3,026,506
Hawaii	1,588	219	385	595	389	2	1,142,377
Idaho	2,978	524	489	928	1,037	101	1,751,712
Illinois³	1,290	553	173	206	358	1	145,719
Indiana	5,488	1,142	510	1,252	2,584	169	3,004,084
Iowa	5,584	803	846	1,281	2,654	183	2,584,085
Kansas	6,893	2,308	1,074	1,752	1,759	219	1,821,596
Kentucky	5,722	2,160	660	2,323	579	398	4,456,082
Louisiana	16,346	5,699	2,461	4,564	3,622	150	3,988,385
Maine	824	72	147	253	352	135	1,344,212
Maryland	15,727	2,840	3,490	5,898	3,499	151	6,043,312
Massachusetts	16,375	1,666	3,562	7,502	3,645	346	6,726,719
Michigan	29,325	8,993	5,580	8,934	5,818	612	9,492,862
Minnesota	7,338	1,820	1,516	1,954	2,048	368	5,433,467
Mississippi	2,424	1,163	308	553	400	55	1,273,580
Missouri	18,379	7,896	1,898	5,217	3,368	327	4,271,657
Montana	3,043	387	278	929	1,449	78	855,718
Nebraska	3,531	867	697	1,173	794	198	1,767,262
Nevada	9,246	2,594	1,922	2,576	2,154	42	2,948,674
New Hampshire	1,091	204	217	285	385	182	1,281,465
New Jersey	10,852	1,729	2,038	3,352	3,733	577	8,882,190
New Mexico	9,356	2,475	1,390	2,483	3,008	99	1,480,451
New York	43,967	4,535	11,626	12,825	14,981	497	18,382,202
North Carolina	21,191	10,813	2,892	3,915	3,571	253	7,678,759
North Dakota	1,243	28	141	517	557	103	759,718
Ohio	16,947	6,636	3,247	4,931	2,133	414	9,215,222
Oklahoma	12,122	3,342	1,956	3,627	3,197	406	3,909,106
Oregon	6,933	1,031	1,244	2,382	2,276	151	3,680,010
Pennsylvania	5,959	962	599	812	3,586	438	3,297,344
Rhode Island	1,408	228	403	444	333	48	1,059,361
South Carolina	18,207	8,598	2,675	4,145	2,789	260	4,660,637
South Dakota	2,005	277	463	471	794	107	816,216
Tennessee	30,687	13,807	5,270	9,587	2,023	456	6,643,476
Texas	73,258	25,970	14,156	20,714	12,418	823	27,151,685
Utah	4,281	692	812	1,321	1,456	109	2,883,845
Vermont	861	131	137	148	445	79	599,538
Virginia	10,823	3,535	1,601	3,132	2,555	400	8,403,438
Washington	12,990	2,667	2,047	4,311	3,965	219	7,114,406
West Virginia	1,996	474	239	453	830	103	953,873
Wisconsin	11,351	2,814	1,058	3,090	4,389	409	5,649,131
Wyoming	739	102	101	247	289	55	512,713

¹The number of aggravated assaults from agencies that submitted 12 months of data in 2019 for which breakdowns by type of weapon were included.
²Limited data for 2019 were available for Alabama.
³ Limited data were received.

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