2010 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 4,785,401 3,911.7 383.7 3,528.0 5.7 28.3 101.6 248.0 887.8 2,414.9 225.3 642.4 736.5 1.1
Alaska 714,146 3,472.1 635.3 2,836.8 4.3 74.6 83.2 473.2 434.8 2,175.3 226.7 388.6 919.0 2.4
Arizona 6,413,158 3,950.1 413.6 3,536.5 6.4 34.2 108.4 264.7 794.2 2,403.4 338.9 599.1 767.3 1.3
Arkansas 2,921,588 4,057.0 503.5 3,553.5 4.6 45.2 81.1 372.6 1,111.1 2,252.1 190.3 552.7 858.9 1.6
California 37,338,198 3,069.5 439.6 2,629.9 4.8 22.3 155.6 256.8 612.9 1,608.4 408.5 439.8 702.6 1.6
Colorado 5,047,692 2,998.2 323.7 2,674.5 2.6 44.2 62.7 214.3 519.0 1,932.2 223.3 452.0 591.2 1.3
Connecticut 3,575,498 2,470.8 282.0 2,188.8 3.7 16.6 99.4 162.3 423.6 1,577.8 187.4 372.2 500.9 1.3
Delaware 899,792 4,077.2 623.3 3,453.9 5.7 36.2 204.4 377.0 839.1 2,399.8 215.0 440.2 968.7 2.2
Florida 18,838,613 4,092.7 541.3 3,551.4 5.2 28.5 138.5 369.0 897.7 2,433.6 220.1 553.7 896.4 1.6
Georgia 9,712,157 4,041.5 402.3 3,639.2 5.7 21.7 127.4 247.5 998.2 2,328.6 312.4 563.1 766.2 1.4
Hawaii 1,369,359 3,576.9 262.3 3,314.2 1.8 27.7 78.1 156.7 638.6 2,323.7 387.3 288.9 593.7 2.1
Idaho 1,571,102 2,221.4 220.5 2,000.9 1.4 33.9 13.6 171.6 414.5 1,501.7 84.6 473.0 420.6 0.9
Illinois 12,841,980 3,163.0 444.9 2,718.1 5.5 23.9 158.7 256.8 603.3 1,889.7 225.1 377.0 716.7 1.9
Indiana 6,490,622 3,393.5 323.3 3,070.2 4.1 27.1 101.1 191.0 748.3 2,113.9 208.0 431.6 630.3 1.5
Iowa 3,050,202 2,522.1 268.5 2,253.6 1.2 28.9 33.2 205.2 549.0 1,580.0 124.6 307.8 493.9 1.6
Kansas 2,859,143 3,487.4 370.8 3,116.6 3.4 40.1 53.8 273.5 675.6 2,230.5 210.6 316.6 682.5 2.2
Kentucky 4,347,223 2,795.2 243.9 2,551.3 4.3 33.1 86.2 120.3 700.3 1,713.5 143.5 458.6 499.0 1.1
Louisiana 4,545,343 4,200.1 555.3 3,644.8 11.0 27.1 116.5 400.7 999.6 2,425.8 219.3 867.8 919.8 1.1
Maine 1,327,379 2,600.7 122.1 2,478.6 1.8 29.3 31.0 60.0 554.8 1,849.3 74.5 146.3 370.0 2.5
Maryland 5,785,681 3,541.8 546.3 2,995.5 7.4 21.2 191.1 326.7 634.4 2,049.5 311.6 385.0 845.9 2.2
Massachusetts 6,555,466 2,825.7 468.9 2,356.8 3.3 27.2 105.2 333.2 578.2 1,603.6 175.0 153.0 704.6 4.6
Michigan 9,877,143 3,241.8 493.0 2,748.8 5.9 47.9 116.7 322.5 752.7 1,718.6 277.5 446.6 767.9 1.7
Minnesota 5,310,658 2,804.7 235.7 2,569.0 1.8 33.9 63.8 136.2 459.7 1,947.6 161.7 184.5 492.6 2.7
Mississippi 2,970,072 3,252.3 269.3 2,983.0 6.9 31.3 93.5 137.6 1,025.3 1,777.2 180.4 685.7 567.6 0.8
Missouri 5,995,715 3,807.7 457.7 3,350.0 7.0 24.1 103.2 323.4 737.1 2,343.8 269.1 510.6 792.7 1.6
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 990,958 2,839.9 275.8 2,564.1 2.5 33.5 15.5 224.2 372.6 2,035.0 156.5 375.0 532.2 1.4
Nebraska 1,830,141 2,946.2 278.3 2,667.9 3.0 36.8 55.7 182.8 454.5 2,016.0 197.4 245.8 545.1 2.2
Nevada 2,704,283 3,436.5 663.0 2,773.5 5.8 35.7 195.9 425.5 824.1 1,572.8 376.6 464.3 940.4 2.0
New Hampshire 1,316,807 2,387.2 167.4 2,219.8 1.0 31.2 34.2 101.0 413.4 1,730.6 75.7 209.7 389.4 1.9
New Jersey 8,799,593 2,387.6 307.5 2,080.1 4.2 11.1 134.3 157.8 440.2 1,463.2 176.8 284.2 515.5 1.8
New Mexico 2,065,913 4,013.9 588.0 3,425.9 6.8 46.4 78.2 456.6 1,017.6 2,154.2 254.1 320.2 930.6 2.9
New York 19,395,206 2,352.2 394.4 1,957.8 4.5 14.4 147.6 227.9 339.5 1,511.9 106.4 291.1 590.2 2.0
North Carolina 9,560,234 3,806.2 362.7 3,443.5 5.0 20.9 100.6 236.2 1,075.6 2,176.3 191.6 370.7 707.1 1.9
North Dakota 674,629 2,009.7 229.5 1,780.2 1.5 36.3 13.3 178.3 296.5 1,354.4 127.7 220.4 407.5 1.8
Ohio 11,537,968 3,580.8 314.7 3,266.1 4.2 32.3 142.9 135.3 928.5 2,154.5 183.1 448.2 641.3 1.4
Oklahoma 3,760,184 3,924.4 481.4 3,443.0 5.2 39.1 89.0 348.1 1,006.5 2,162.2 274.3 651.9 825.7 1.3
Oregon 3,838,332 3,290.7 251.4 3,039.3 2.5 32.3 63.1 153.5 522.0 2,279.5 237.8 386.4 555.3 1.4
Pennsylvania 12,717,722 2,539.6 366.5 2,173.1 5.1 27.3 128.8 205.3 434.1 1,607.5 131.5 401.6 583.8 1.5
Rhode Island 1,052,528 2,818.8 257.4 2,561.4 2.8 28.3 74.3 152.0 581.8 1,751.2 228.3 198.2 513.5 2.6
South Carolina 4,637,106 4,507.6 602.2 3,905.4 5.7 33.4 108.2 454.8 997.6 2,621.1 286.7 492.2 992.7 2.0
South Dakota 816,598 2,128.8 268.9 1,859.9 2.8 47.1 18.9 200.1 390.9 1,371.1 98.0 420.2 454.9 1.1
Tennessee 6,357,436 4,274.7 612.0 3,662.7 5.6 34.2 131.5 440.7 1,011.3 2,418.1 233.3 431.8 978.3 2.3
Texas 25,253,466 4,215.2 448.4 3,766.8 4.9 30.2 130.1 283.2 905.2 2,592.2 269.4 652.0 825.1 1.3
Utah 2,775,479 3,395.5 213.5 3,182.0 1.9 35.4 45.7 130.4 543.9 2,422.7 215.4 244.8 531.7 2.2
Vermont 625,909 2,393.3 131.0 2,262.3 1.1 22.5 12.1 95.2 534.9 1,657.3 70.1 263.5 357.2 1.4
Virginia 8,023,953 2,549.7 214.2 2,335.5 4.7 19.7 70.8 119.0 383.9 1,819.4 132.2 466.2 447.8 1.0
Washington 6,742,950 4,012.6 313.5 3,699.1 2.3 38.2 87.9 185.0 818.5 2,498.8 381.8 270.1 683.4 2.5
West Virginia 1,854,368 2,528.4 301.2 2,227.2 3.1 19.5 41.8 236.7 581.2 1,515.6 130.4 358.2 523.9 1.5
Wisconsin 5,691,659 2,757.5 248.9 2,508.6 2.7 20.9 79.3 145.9 468.0 1,897.4 143.2 386.1 499.8 1.3
Wyoming 564,554 2,654.5 197.9 2,456.6 1.4 28.7 13.6 154.1 381.0 1,970.8 104.9 374.1 443.6 1.2
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 21 10 11 31 20 20 13 8 18 5 17 7
Alaska 47 20 2 24 24 1 28 1 40 18 17 25 7 44
Arizona 16 11 18 9 6 15 16 17 17 9 5 6 15 11
Arkansas 32 7 10 7 22 5 29 8 1 15 29 9 9 24
California 1 28 17 30 20 41 5 19 25 39 1 20 21 25
Colorado 22 29 25 28 37 6 37 26 35 28 20 16 27 13
Connecticut 29 43 31 44 29 48 23 35 42 43 30 32 38 14
Delaware 45 6 3 11 12 12 1 7 14 10 24 19 3 41
Florida 4 5 9 8 15 30 8 9 12 4 21 8 8 27
Georgia 9 8 19 6 10 42 13 21 8 12 6 7 16 16
Hawaii 40 17 37 16 42 33 32 37 23 13 2 39 26 37
Idaho 39 48 44 47 47 18 47 34 43 47 47 12 46 2
Illinois 5 27 16 27 14 39 4 18 26 30 19 29 18 32
Indiana 15 23 26 20 28 37 21 30 19 22 26 22 25 21
Iowa 30 42 36 41 48 28 43 28 31 42 43 37 41 26
Kansas 33 19 22 19 30 7 39 16 22 16 25 36 23 38
Kentucky 26 35 41 34 25 21 27 46 21 37 37 15 40 6
Louisiana 25 4 7 5 1 36 15 6 7 5 22 1 6 4
Maine 41 38 50 36 44 27 44 50 30 31 49 50 49 45
Maryland 19 18 8 22 2 43 3 12 24 23 7 28 10 40
Massachusetts 14 32 13 38 31 35 18 11 29 41 34 49 20 50
Michigan 8 26 11 26 7 2 14 14 18 36 9 18 14 28
Minnesota 21 34 42 31 43 17 35 43 37 27 35 48 42 48
Mississippi 31 25 34 23 4 24 24 42 3 33 32 2 30 1
Missouri 18 14 14 15 3 38 19 13 20 11 12 10 13 23
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 33 32 39 19 46 25 48 24 36 30 33 17
Nebraska 38 30 32 29 33 10 38 32 38 25 27 43 32 42
Nevada 35 21 1 25 8 13 2 5 15 44 4 14 4 35
New Hampshire 42 46 48 43 50 25 42 48 44 35 48 46 48 31
New Jersey 11 45 29 46 27 50 9 36 39 48 33 40 36 29
New Mexico 36 9 6 14 5 4 31 2 4 21 13 35 5 49
New York 3 47 20 48 23 49 6 24 49 46 44 38 28 36
North Carolina 10 15 24 12 18 44 22 23 2 17 28 33 19 33
North Dakota 48 50 43 50 45 11 49 33 50 50 42 45 47 30
Ohio 7 16 27 17 26 22 7 44 10 20 31 17 24 18
Oklahoma 28 12 12 13 16 8 25 10 6 19 10 4 11 10
Oregon 27 24 39 21 38 23 36 39 34 14 14 26 31 19
Pennsylvania 6 40 23 45 17 34 12 27 41 40 40 24 29 20
Rhode Island 43 33 38 33 34 32 33 40 27 34 16 47 37 47
South Carolina 24 1 5 1 9 20 17 3 9 1 8 11 1 34
South Dakota 46 49 35 49 35 3 45 29 45 49 46 23 43 5
Tennessee 17 2 4 4 13 16 10 4 5 7 15 21 2 43
Texas 2 3 15 2 19 26 11 15 11 2 11 3 12 9
Utah 34 22 46 18 41 14 40 45 32 6 23 44 34 39
Vermont 49 44 49 40 49 40 50 49 33 38 50 42 50 15
Virginia 12 39 45 39 21 46 34 47 46 32 39 13 44 3
Washington 13 10 28 3 40 9 26 31 16 3 3 41 22 46
West Virginia 37 41 30 42 32 47 41 22 28 45 41 34 35 22
Wisconsin 20 36 40 35 36 45 30 41 36 29 38 27 39 12
Wyoming 50 37 47 37 46 29 48 38 47 26 45 31 45 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