1989 Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime and Imprisonment by US States  
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates
Alabama 4,118,000 4,627.8 590.8 4,037.0 10.2 31.0 133.9 415.7 1,146.8 2,592.8 297.5 336.8 994.5 3.0
Alaska 527,000 4,779.9 497.7 4,282.2 8.0 52.9 67.6 369.3 826.9 3,000.2 455.0 348.7 925.9 2.7
Arizona 3,556,000 8,059.7 599.6 7,460.2 6.7 36.2 139.0 417.7 1,667.2 5,106.1 686.9 351.3 1345.6 3.8
Arkansas 2,406,000 4,555.7 473.7 4,082.0 8.4 38.4 110.6 316.3 1,194.4 2,621.9 265.6 279.0 881.9 3.2
California 29,063,000 6,763.4 977.7 5,785.8 10.9 41.2 331.8 593.8 1,412.3 3,346.5 1,026.9 288.7 1556.3 5.4
Colorado 3,317,000 6,039.4 471.4 5,568.0 4.4 36.2 90.0 340.8 1,250.4 3,864.8 452.9 210.9 1028.2 4.9
Connecticut 3,239,000 5,270.0 511.8 4,758.2 5.9 27.5 214.8 263.6 1,236.0 2,824.4 697.8 192.2 987.6 5.1
Delaware 673,000 4,865.2 556.5 4,308.8 5.1 84.5 138.8 328.1 902.2 3,015.5 391.1 347.0 987.4 2.8
Florida 12,671,000 8,804.5 1,109.4 7,695.1 11.1 49.7 404.0 644.6 2,282.8 4,606.6 805.7 316.2 1878.9 5.9
Georgia 6,436,000 7,073.1 735.8 6,337.3 12.7 48.9 271.1 403.0 1,712.5 3,971.1 653.7 306.0 1369.5 4.5
Hawaii 1,112,000 6,270.4 270.1 6,000.3 4.8 44.6 83.2 137.6 1,343.4 4,260.3 396.6 160.5 870.1 5.4
Idaho 1,014,000 3,931.0 254.6 3,676.3 2.6 23.3 15.0 213.8 872.1 2,645.5 158.8 186.0 622.2 3.3
Illinois 11,658,000 5,639.2 845.9 4,793.3 9.0 35.7 335.7 465.4 1,076.0 3,109.9 607.4 216.6 1325.2 6.1
Indiana 5,593,000 4,440.0 406.5 4,033.5 6.3 32.3 101.4 266.5 969.1 2,673.2 391.1 221.2 809.9 3.7
Iowa 2,840,000 4,081.4 266.3 3,815.1 1.9 16.2 39.0 209.2 846.9 2,809.9 158.3 129.4 647.8 5.0
Kansas 2,513,000 4,982.8 400.8 4,582.0 5.5 36.5 99.8 259.1 1,188.7 3,096.0 297.4 227.1 859.0 3.8
Kentucky 3,727,000 3,317.1 356.9 2,960.2 7.9 24.6 76.1 248.3 819.1 1,921.4 219.8 225.4 652.9 2.9
Louisiana 4,382,000 6,241.3 781.8 5,459.5 14.9 38.2 237.3 491.4 1,464.7 3,473.5 521.3 405.8 1327.8 3.3
Maine 1,222,000 3,583.6 137.2 3,446.5 3.2 18.7 24.0 91.2 802.8 2,460.5 183.2 117.4 481.9 4.1
Maryland 4,694,000 5,562.6 855.4 4,707.2 11.6 38.0 332.1 473.7 1,123.5 2,919.5 664.2 325.3 1326.1 4.1
Massachusetts 5,913,000 5,136.0 675.0 4,461.0 4.3 31.8 202.6 436.3 1,065.5 2,484.8 910.7 120.8 1121.1 9.3
Michigan 9,273,000 5,968.3 709.2 5,259.2 10.7 71.4 222.3 404.7 1,224.8 3,311.7 722.6 341.9 1235.1 3.6
Minnesota 4,353,000 4,383.2 288.3 4,094.9 2.5 31.3 94.8 159.6 896.9 2,818.1 379.9 71.5 697.8 9.8
Mississippi 2,621,000 3,515.3 311.2 3,204.1 9.7 38.8 78.3 184.4 1,145.3 1,879.7 179.2 299.1 631.6 2.1
Missouri 5,159,000 5,127.1 632.6 4,494.6 7.9 30.8 195.0 398.9 1,135.8 2,835.2 523.6 273.2 1082.1 4.0
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates
Montana 806,000 3,997.5 116.0 3,881.5 2.9 18.0 17.0 78.2 691.7 2,964.3 225.6 166.1 504.2 3.0
Nebraska 1,611,000 4,091.6 279.5 3,812.1 2.5 23.6 52.0 201.4 745.5 2,880.4 186.2 144.7 660.7 4.6
Nevada 1,111,000 6,271.7 625.3 5,646.4 8.2 59.6 250.6 306.9 1,404.8 3,662.1 579.6 449.5 1189.9 2.6
New Hampshire 1,107,000 3,596.2 168.5 3,427.7 3.3 29.5 23.8 111.8 736.9 2,446.9 244.0 105.6 511.3 4.8
New Jersey 7,736,000 5,269.4 609.0 4,660.4 5.1 31.7 273.3 299.0 976.6 2,764.7 919.2 251.6 1075.0 4.3
New Mexico 1,528,000 6,573.8 703.9 5,870.0 8.6 45.9 105.2 544.1 1,711.1 3,809.0 349.9 207.5 1290.9 6.2
New York 17,950,000 6,293.2 1,131.2 5,162.1 12.5 29.2 579.3 510.1 1,176.2 3,033.2 952.7 284.9 1647.4 5.8
North Carolina 6,571,000 5,253.8 546.4 4,707.4 8.9 29.9 133.5 374.1 1,503.5 2,918.6 285.3 253.3 1017.1 4.0
North Dakota 660,000 2,560.9 63.2 2,497.7 0.6 11.8 9.2 41.5 358.9 2,025.8 113.0 62.5 313.0 5.0
Ohio 10,907,000 4,733.2 468.6 4,264.6 6.0 44.7 170.9 247.1 1,018.2 2,811.1 435.3 282.0 895.1 3.2
Oklahoma 3,224,000 5,502.6 491.5 5,011.1 6.5 37.5 126.2 321.3 1,563.6 2,862.0 585.5 368.5 992.6 2.7
Oregon 2,820,000 6,161.1 518.6 5,642.5 4.8 46.6 151.8 315.4 1,425.4 3,677.0 540.1 220.6 1082.9 4.9
Pennsylvania 12,040,000 3,360.4 378.6 2,981.8 6.3 24.6 149.7 198.0 713.7 1,798.7 469.4 172.4 676.8 3.9
Rhode Island 998,000 5,224.8 378.0 4,846.9 4.9 26.7 112.4 234.0 1,206.9 2,715.8 924.1 146.8 862.7 5.9
South Carolina 3,512,000 5,619.2 813.7 4,805.6 9.1 46.5 130.2 627.8 1,392.8 3,070.8 342.1 428.4 1294.3 3.0
South Dakota 715,000 2,685.2 135.5 2,549.7 1.3 32.0 11.7 90.5 474.7 1,966.0 109.0 180.3 390.5 2.2
Tennessee 4,940,000 4,513.6 548.9 3,964.7 8.4 46.0 160.4 334.1 1,206.9 2,224.9 532.9 219.0 945.4 4.3
Texas 16,991,000 7,926.9 658.5 7,268.4 11.9 46.8 223.1 376.6 2,014.9 4,365.0 888.5 261.9 1385.3 5.3
Utah 1,707,000 5,682.1 258.8 5,423.4 2.6 28.6 52.6 174.9 897.0 4,288.8 237.6 138.8 801.1 5.8
Vermont 567,000 4,088.5 132.8 3,955.7 1.9 23.1 18.0 89.8 1,029.1 2,727.7 198.9 112.3 528.4 4.7
Virginia 6,098,000 4,211.4 312.5 3,898.9 7.9 26.9 106.5 171.3 756.9 2,831.2 310.9 265.9 702.4 2.6
Washington 4,761,000 6,593.8 471.7 6,122.1 4.4 61.7 140.1 265.5 1,545.1 4,119.3 457.6 146.0 1083.9 7.4
West Virginia 1,857,000 2,362.8 146.7 2,216.2 6.5 18.7 42.7 78.8 626.5 1,432.8 156.8 85.0 368.3 4.3
Wisconsin 4,867,000 4,164.8 222.6 3,942.2 3.6 20.4 75.2 123.4 733.2 2,877.3 331.7 139.5 616.8 4.4
Wyoming 475,000 3,889.1 258.3 3,630.7 4.4 28.2 17.1 208.6 631.8 2,861.7 137.3 223.8 621.4 2.8
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates

Horizontally across the page are the categories.  Vertically along the left side are the states the categories apply to.

State = the State the crimes took place in.  Population = the population of the state as estimated by the US Census Bureau.  The crime and inmate rates are both per 100,000 people for the year.  Index = the total number of reported crimes per 100,000 people for the year.  Violent Crime = the total number for each of the violent crime categories per 100,000 people for the year.  Property Crime = the total number of the property crime categories per 100,000 people for the year.  The same applies for each of the crime categories: Murder  -  Rape -   Robbery  -  Assault  -  Burglary  -  Larceny  -  Auto.   

For the Years 1978 to present there are three more categories.  The Inmate category = the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, on December 31.  New Index * = Developed by the Disaster Center to examine how punishment is being applied to crimes.  The old index measured all crime equally. One violent crime was equal to one property crime.   There are about ten times more property crimes than violent crimes.  Half of people are imprisoned for violent crime and half for non-violent crime.  To make things relatively equal, we divided property crimes by ten and added that total to the number of reported violent crimes to create the new index. .  Index/ Inmates = We divide the new crime index by the number of prisoners reported for each year to compare crime to punishment each year between the states and over the years.    

For the table below we ranked each category with the highest rate ranking 1 and the lowest ranking 50.  
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates
Alabama 22 30 17 32 9 30 22 11 23 40 33 9 16 10
Alaska 49 28 23 28 18 5 38 17 38 20 22 6 26 5
Arizona 24 2 16 2 22 22 20 10 5 1 10 5 9 20
Arkansas 33 31 25 31 15 17 27 22 20 39 36 17 27 13
California 1 5 3 8 7 15 5 3 11 13 1 14 3 40
Colorado 26 13 27 11 36 23 33 18 15 8 23 30 21 34
Connecticut 27 20 22 20 28 37 12 28 16 30 9 32 24 38
Delaware 46 27 18 27 31 1 21 20 33 19 26 7 18 8
Florida 4 1 2 1 6 6 2 1 1 2 7 11 1 45
Georgia 11 4 8 4 2 7 7 13 3 7 12 12 11 30
Hawaii 39 10 38 6 33 14 34 42 14 5 25 37 32 41
Idaho 42 41 42 41 44 43 48 33 36 38 45 33 43 16
Illinois 6 16 5 19 12 24 3 8 27 15 13 29 6 46
Indiana 14 33 29 33 25 25 30 26 32 37 27 26 31 18
Iowa 29 39 39 39 48 49 42 34 37 33 46 43 41 37
Kansas 32 26 30 24 29 21 31 29 21 16 34 23 30 19
Kentucky 23 47 33 47 21 40 36 30 39 47 40 24 40 9
Louisiana 20 11 7 12 1 18 9 6 9 12 19 3 7 15
Maine 38 44 46 43 41 47 43 45 40 42 43 45 46 25
Maryland 19 18 4 22 5 19 4 7 26 22 11 10 8 24
Massachusetts 13 24 11 26 38 27 13 9 28 41 5 44 13 49
Michigan 8 14 9 14 8 2 11 12 17 14 8 8 12 17
Minnesota 21 34 36 30 45 29 32 41 35 31 28 49 36 50
Mississippi 31 45 35 45 10 16 35 38 24 48 44 13 38 1
Missouri 15 25 13 25 19 31 14 14 25 28 18 18 14 22
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates
Montana 44 40 49 38 42 48 47 49 46 21 39 36 44 12
Nebraska 36 37 37 40 46 42 40 36 42 24 42 40 37 31
Nevada 40 9 14 9 17 4 8 24 12 11 15 1 15 4
New Hampshire 41 43 44 44 40 33 44 44 43 43 37 47 47 33
New Jersey 9 21 15 23 30 28 6 25 31 34 4 22 17 26
New Mexico 37 7 10 7 14 12 29 4 4 9 29 31 10 47
New York 2 8 1 15 3 34 1 5 22 18 2 15 2 43
North Carolina 10 22 20 21 13 32 23 16 8 23 35 21 19 23
North Dakota 47 49 50 49 50 50 50 50 50 45 49 50 50 36
Ohio 7 29 28 29 27 13 15 31 30 32 24 16 28 14
Oklahoma 28 19 24 16 23 20 25 21 6 26 14 4 23 6
Oregon 30 12 21 10 34 9 17 23 10 10 16 27 25 35
Pennsylvania 5 46 31 46 26 41 18 37 45 49 20 35 35 21
Rhode Island 43 23 32 17 32 39 26 32 19 36 3 38 29 44
South Carolina 25 17 6 18 11 10 24 2 13 17 30 2 4 11
South Dakota 45 48 47 48 49 26 49 46 49 46 50 34 48 2
Tennessee 16 32 19 34 16 11 16 19 18 44 17 28 20 27
Texas 3 3 12 3 4 8 10 15 2 3 6 20 5 39
Utah 35 15 40 13 43 35 39 39 34 4 38 42 33 42
Vermont 48 38 48 35 47 44 45 47 29 35 41 46 45 32
Virginia 12 35 34 37 20 38 28 40 41 29 32 19 34 3
Washington 18 6 26 5 35 3 19 27 7 6 21 39 22 48
West Virginia 34 50 45 50 24 46 41 48 48 50 47 48 49 28
Wisconsin 17 36 43 36 39 45 37 43 44 25 31 41 42 29
Wyoming 50 42 41 42 37 36 46 35 47 27 48 25 39 7
State Population Index Violent Property Murder Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Auto Inmates New Index * Index/ Inmates

These pages compare reported crimes and imprisonment rates for every 100,000 people for each year in the 50 United States and rank each State's crime/imprisonment rates.

In order to compare crime to punishment we created a new crime index* and divided that index by the ratio of inmates to crimes of each state, as reported to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.    In an important new way, this table links crime to punishment within and between the States.

The traditional crime index is made up of the total crimes committed in each State.   The problem with the old index is that it provides equal weight to every crime  and far more property crimes are committed than violent crimes.  Since violent criminals make up about half the prison population and about ten times more property crimes are committed than violent crimes, for the new index* we divided the number of property crimes by ten and added to that the number of violent crimes to make up the new index*. 

Since we developed the tables: "Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime and Imprisonment by US States 1978 - 2012", we are interested in hearing how others use the table.  Email: host@disastercenter.com

Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime by US States 1960 - 1977
1960 * 1961 * 1962 * 1963 * 1964 * 1965 * 1966 * 1967 * 1968 * 1969 * 1970 * 1971 * 1972 * 1973 * 1974 * 1975 * 1976 * 1977 *
Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime and Imprisonment by US States 1978 - 2012
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Crime, Punishment and Ratio of Crime to Punishment Per 100,000 and Rank by Year and between States

Alaska -   Alabama  -  Arkansas  -  Arizona  -  California  -  Colorado  -  Connecticut -    Delaware  -    Florida  -  Georgia  -  Hawaii  -  Iowa -  Idaho  -  Illinois  -  Indiana -  Kansas -  Kentucky  -  Louisiana  -  Massachusetts  -  Maryland  -   Maine  - Michigan  -  Minnesota  -  Missouri  -  Mississippi  -  Montana -  North Carolina -  North Dakota  -  Nebraska  -  New Hampshire  -  New Jersey  -  New Mexico  -  Nevada  -  New York -  Ohio  -  Oklahoma -  Oregon  -  Pennsylvania -  Rhode Island  -  South Carolina  -  South Dakota  -  Tennessee  -  Texas  -  Utah  -  Virginia  -  Vermont  -  Washington  -  Wisconsin  -  West Virginia  -  Wyoming  
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Rate and Rank of Crimes in the United States 1960 to 2013 Violent Crime Property Crime Rape Robbery Assault Burglary Larceny Theft Motor Vehicle Theft