FBI Releases 2025 Reported Crimes in the Nation Statistics
August 14, 2026 - Data reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program shows 2024 to 2025 marked the largest year-to-year decline in violent crime rates since FBI estimations began in 1936.
Following the May announcement that violent crime decreased 9.3% from 2024 to 2025, the FBI released detailed data tables on more than 13 million criminal offenses reported to the FBI by participating law enforcement agencies for 2025. The data support the previously released violent crime trends:
- Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses decreased an estimated 18.1%.
- Rape offenses decreased an estimated 7.6%.
- Aggravated assault figures decreased an estimated 7.2%.
- Robbery offenses decreased an estimated 18.5%.
The 2025 murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 inhabitants is tied with 1955 and 1956 for the lowest murder rate.
Property crime and hate crime also declined in 2025. Law enforcement agencies submitted hate crime reports involving 10,881 criminal incidents and 13,026 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
To publish a national trend, the FBI’s UCR Program used a dataset of reported hate crime incidents and zero reports submitted by agencies reporting 6 or more common months of hate crime data to the FBI’s UCR Program for both 2024 and 2025. According to this dataset, reported hate crime incidents decreased 7.0% from 11,404 in 2024, to 10,606 in 2025.
More than 17,000 state, county, city, tribal, and university and college agencies, covering a combined population of 96.2% inhabitants, submitted data to the UCR Program through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the Summary Reporting System. Nearly 17,000 (16,791) agencies participated in the Hate Crime Data Collection, with a population coverage of 95.3%.
Reported Crimes in the Nation (RCN) is composed of five parts—Crime in the United States, 2025, NIBRS, 2025, Hate Crime Statistics, 2025, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 2025 assault tables, and UCR Summary of Reported Crimes in the Nation, 2025.
The complete analysis is located on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. In addition to the traditional data elements published during the release, including downloadable tables, the FBI unveiled RCN Online: dashboards that modernize the annual report and enhance ease of access to high interest data, such as 2025 annual violent and property crime trends.
Related Links
- UCR Summary of Reported Crimes in the Nation, 2025
- RCN Online
- Press Release: FBI Releases Historic Early Look at Annual Crime Data
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