Violent crime decreased 9.3 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the largest year-to-year decline since FBI estimates began in 1936.
Analysis was published on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. The report includes detailed data tables on more than 13 million criminal offenses that participating law enforcement agencies reported to the FBI.
In 2025, hate crime incidents dropped 7 percent, aggravated assault dropped 7.2 percent, rape offenses dropped 7.6 percent, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses dropped 18.1 percent, and robbery offenses dropped 18.5 percent. The 2025 murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, the lowest rate since 1956.
All figures except for hate crimes are estimates. Law enforcement agencies submitted hate crime reports to the program as did more than 17,000 state, county, city, tribal, and university and college agencies, covering 96.2 percent of the population. Reports were submitted through the National Incident-Based Reporting System and the Summary Reporting System. An additional 16,791 agencies, covering 95.3 percent of the population, participated in Hate Crime Data Collection.
Agencies reported hate crime data to the program for both 2024 and 2025. In 2025, there were 10,881 criminal incidents and 13,026 related offenses that were motivated by bias toward race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.