2006 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 4,599,030 4,361.3 425.2 3,936.1 8.3 35.9 153.5 227.6 969.1 2,644.3 322.7 598.7 818.8 1.4
Alaska 670,053 4,292.9 688.0 3,604.9 5.4 76.0 90.3 516.4 617.3 2,610.2 377.4 460.1 1048.5 2.3
Arizona 6,166,318 5,128.3 501.4 4,627.9 7.5 31.5 149.6 312.7 925.3 2,813.1 889.5 541.9 964.2 1.8
Arkansas 2,810,872 4,518.1 551.6 3,967.5 7.3 46.5 98.4 399.4 1,139.9 2,562.1 265.5 487.1 948.4 1.9
California 36,457,549 3,743.4 532.5 3,170.9 6.8 25.3 194.7 305.7 676.0 1,829.1 665.7 483.5 849.6 1.8
Colorado 4,753,377 3,842.9 391.6 3,451.3 3.3 43.7 80.7 264.0 682.1 2,331.8 437.5 473.0 736.7 1.6
Connecticut 3,504,809 2,784.9 280.8 2,504.1 3.1 18.1 121.0 138.6 419.3 1,788.4 296.1 394.4 531.2 1.3
Delaware 853,476 4,099.5 681.6 3,417.9 4.9 46.9 203.3 426.5 725.2 2,362.8 329.9 491.8 1023.4 2.1
Florida 18,089,888 4,694.7 712.0 3,968.1 6.2 35.8 188.8 481.2 944.6 2,619.0 422.5 513.4 1108.8 2.2
Georgia 9,363,941 4,360.2 471.0 3,889.2 6.4 23.2 165.6 275.8 909.0 2,519.3 460.9 565.7 859.9 1.5
Hawaii 1,285,498 4,511.6 281.2 4,230.4 1.6 27.6 88.9 163.0 667.5 2,949.1 603.9 342.8 704.2 2.1
Idaho 1,466,465 2,666.0 247.2 2,418.8 2.5 40.0 20.5 184.2 513.2 1,740.0 165.6 486.5 489.1 1.0
Illinois 12,831,970 3,550.2 541.6 3,019.6 6.1 31.8 185.3 318.4 602.1 2,124.2 293.3 354.7 843.6 2.4
Indiana 6,313,520 3,817.2 314.8 3,502.4 5.8 29.1 114.7 165.2 731.3 2,424.8 346.3 413.5 665.0 1.6
Iowa 2,982,085 3,085.2 283.5 2,802.7 1.8 27.8 43.5 210.4 604.2 2,030.7 167.9 298.1 563.8 1.9
Kansas 2,764,075 4,175.2 425.0 3,750.2 4.6 44.8 67.9 307.7 723.3 2,712.0 314.9 319.9 800.0 2.5
Kentucky 4,206,074 2,807.5 263.0 2,544.5 4.0 30.8 86.2 142.0 644.8 1,679.9 219.8 462.5 517.5 1.1
Louisiana 4,287,768 4,691.4 697.7 3,993.7 12.3 36.4 133.6 515.4 1,049.2 2,579.7 364.8 857.9 1097.1 1.3
Maine 1,321,574 2,634.2 115.5 2,518.7 1.7 25.7 29.1 59.0 512.9 1,904.3 101.4 151.9 367.4 2.4
Maryland 5,615,727 4,158.5 678.6 3,480.9 9.7 21.0 256.0 392.0 667.0 2,270.4 543.5 397.6 1026.7 2.6
Massachusetts 6,437,193 2,738.0 447.0 2,391.0 2.9 27.1 125.0 292.1 546.5 1,565.4 279.0 146.5 686.1 4.7
Michigan 10,095,643 3,775.2 562.4 3,212.8 7.1 52.2 140.7 362.4 753.9 1,963.5 495.4 511.6 883.7 1.7
Minnesota 5,167,101 3,391.5 312.0 3,079.5 2.4 37.7 105.1 172.6 583.9 2,236.6 258.9 176.9 620.0 3.5
Mississippi 2,910,540 3,506.4 298.6 3,208.8 7.7 34.4 107.1 149.5 935.9 1,986.1 286.8 663.4 619.5 0.9
Missouri 5,842,713 4,361.1 545.6 3,826.5 6.3 30.2 129.9 379.4 764.1 2,627.0 435.3 514.3 928.3 1.8
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 944,632 3,396.6 253.7 3,142.9 1.8 28.5 17.4 206.1 310.7 2,191.8 185.0 376.6 568.0 1.5
Nebraska 1,768,331 3,622.5 281.8 3,340.7 2.8 31.0 63.8 184.1 534.5 2,521.3 284.9 238.8 615.9 2.6
Nevada 2,495,529 4,830.4 741.6 4,088.8 9.0 43.2 281.6 407.8 994.6 2,013.8 1,080.4 509.0 1150.5 2.3
New Hampshire 1,314,895 2,012.8 138.7 1,874.1 1.0 26.2 32.2 79.4 331.4 1,434.5 108.1 208.6 326.1 1.6
New Jersey 8,724,560 2,642.7 351.6 2,291.1 4.9 14.2 153.1 179.4 452.0 1,556.5 283.4 317.4 580.7 1.8
New Mexico 1,954,599 4,580.4 643.2 3,937.2 6.8 56.0 107.7 472.8 1,069.7 2,395.5 472.0 327.5 1036.9 3.2
New York 19,306,183 2,487.6 434.9 2,052.7 4.8 16.4 178.6 235.1 355.1 1,531.1 166.4 325.3 640.2 2.0
North Carolina 8,856,505 4,596.4 475.6 4,120.8 6.1 28.2 152.5 289.1 1,212.7 2,567.9 340.2 363.4 887.7 2.4
North Dakota 635,867 2,128.2 127.9 2,000.3 1.3 30.4 11.3 84.9 376.3 1,464.8 159.2 214.1 327.9 1.5
Ohio 11,478,006 4,028.9 350.3 3,678.6 4.7 39.6 166.8 139.2 909.8 2,442.8 326.1 427.8 718.2 1.7
Oklahoma 3,579,212 4,101.6 497.4 3,604.2 5.8 41.6 87.5 362.5 960.5 2,270.5 373.2 668.4 857.8 1.3
Oregon 3,700,758 3,952.4 280.3 3,672.1 2.3 32.3 72.7 173.0 645.2 2,636.1 390.7 371.6 647.5 1.7
Pennsylvania 12,440,621 2,877.4 434.9 2,443.5 5.9 27.3 168.6 237.6 463.2 1,742.9 237.4 352.8 679.3 1.9
Rhode Island 1,067,610 2,713.6 227.5 2,586.9 2.6 26.7 68.8 129.4 507.2 1,744.2 335.5 202.7 486.2 2.4
South Carolina 4,321,249 4,907.8 765.5 4,242.3 8.3 40.8 136.5 579.9 989.8 2,873.0 379.6 526.8 1189.7 2.3
South Dakota 781,919 1,890.0 171.4 1,619.6 1.2 43.0 15.2 112.0 338.9 1,188.9 91.8 424.9 333.4 0.8
Tennessee 6,038,803 4,888.3 760.2 4,128.3 6.8 35.5 184.3 533.7 1,040.9 2,713.2 374.1 422.8 1173.0 2.8
Texas 23,507,783 4,597.8 516.3 4,081.5 5.9 35.6 158.5 316.4 917.3 2,758.2 405.9 694.1 924.5 1.3
Utah 2,550,063 3,740.1 224.4 3,516.7 1.8 34.1 48.8 139.7 576.5 2,614.5 325.4 245.4 576.1 2.3
Vermont 623,908 2,441.3 136.6 2,304.7 1.9 24.0 17.6 93.0 528.9 1,681.8 93.9 263.6 367.1 1.4
Virginia 7,642,884 2,760.4 282.2 2,478.2 5.2 23.4 101.4 152.1 417.6 1,855.8 193.8 479.8 530.0 1.1
Washington 6,396,798 4,825.9 345.9 4,480.0 3.0 42.9 100.1 199.8 911.6 2,850.7 717.6 274.4 793.9 2.9
West Virginia 1,818,470 2,901.2 279.7 2,621.5 4.1 21.4 46.9 207.3 634.1 1,771.8 215.6 316.5 541.9 1.7
Wisconsin 5,556,506 3,101.8 284.0 2,817.8 3.0 20.4 100.2 160.6 485.8 2,079.5 252.5 406.0 565.8 1.4
Wyoming 515,004 3,220.2 239.6 2,980.6 1.7 27.2 14.0 196.7 450.5 2,379.4 150.7 412.2 537.7 1.3
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 23 13 23 13 5 17 13 25 8 8 26 5 20 11
Alaska 47 16 6 19 22 1 31 3 29 13 16 20 6 37
Arizona 16 1 16 1 7 25 16 16 12 4 2 7 10 25
Arkansas 32 11 11 11 8 5 30 9 2 16 34 14 11 30
California 1 26 14 29 12 41 4 18 23 37 4 16 18 24
Colorado 22 23 25 24 31 7 35 22 22 24 10 18 23 17
Connecticut 29 39 37 40 32 48 22 44 44 38 28 28 41 10
Delaware 45 20 7 25 24 4 3 7 20 23 23 13 9 33
Florida 4 6 4 10 15 18 5 5 10 11 12 10 4 34
Georgia 9 15 19 14 13 44 11 21 16 18 9 6 16 15
Hawaii 42 12 36 4 47 34 32 37 24 1 5 34 25 32
Idaho 39 43 42 43 38 13 45 31 37 42 44 15 44 3
Illinois 5 29 13 32 17 24 6 14 31 29 29 32 19 39
Indiana 15 24 29 22 21 30 23 36 19 20 20 24 28 19
Iowa 30 35 33 35 44 33 42 26 30 31 42 40 38 28
Kansas 33 17 24 16 28 6 38 17 21 7 27 37 21 43
Kentucky 26 38 40 38 30 27 34 41 27 44 38 19 43 5
Louisiana 25 7 5 9 1 16 19 4 4 14 19 1 5 6
Maine 40 45 50 39 46 40 44 50 38 35 48 49 46 41
Maryland 19 18 8 23 2 46 2 10 25 26 6 27 8 45
Massachusetts 13 41 20 44 35 37 21 19 34 45 33 50 26 50
Michigan 8 25 10 27 9 3 17 13 18 34 7 11 15 22
Minnesota 21 32 30 31 39 15 26 35 32 27 35 48 31 49
Mississippi 31 30 31 28 6 21 25 40 11 33 30 4 32 2
Missouri 18 14 12 15 14 29 20 11 17 10 11 9 12 26
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 31 41 30 43 31 47 28 50 28 41 29 36 14
Nebraska 38 28 35 26 36 26 39 32 35 17 31 44 33 44
Nevada 35 4 3 7 3 8 1 8 6 32 1 12 3 36
New Hampshire 41 49 47 49 50 39 43 49 49 49 47 46 50 18
New Jersey 11 44 26 46 25 50 14 33 42 46 32 38 34 27
New Mexico 36 10 9 12 11 2 24 6 3 21 8 35 7 48
New York 3 46 22 47 26 49 8 24 47 47 43 36 30 31
North Carolina 10 9 18 6 16 32 15 20 1 15 21 31 14 42
North Dakota 48 48 49 48 48 28 50 48 46 48 45 45 49 16
Ohio 7 21 27 17 27 14 10 43 15 19 24 21 24 20
Oklahoma 28 19 17 20 20 11 33 12 9 25 18 3 17 7
Oregon 27 22 38 18 40 23 36 34 26 9 14 30 29 23
Pennsylvania 6 37 21 42 19 35 9 23 41 41 37 33 27 29
Rhode Island 43 42 44 37 37 38 37 45 39 40 22 47 45 40
South Carolina 24 2 1 3 4 12 18 1 7 2 15 8 1 35
South Dakota 46 50 46 50 49 9 48 46 48 50 50 22 48 1
Tennessee 17 3 2 5 10 20 7 2 5 6 17 23 2 46
Texas 2 8 15 8 18 19 12 15 13 5 13 2 13 9
Utah 34 27 45 21 42 22 40 42 33 12 25 43 35 38
Vermont 49 47 48 45 41 42 46 47 36 43 49 42 47 12
Virginia 12 40 34 41 23 43 27 39 45 36 40 17 42 4
Washington 14 5 28 2 33 10 29 29 14 3 3 41 22 47
West Virginia 37 36 39 36 29 45 41 27 28 39 39 39 39 21
Wisconsin 20 34 32 34 34 47 28 38 40 30 36 26 37 13
Wyoming 50 33 43 33 45 36 49 30 43 22 46 25 40 8
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