2013 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 * Crimes/ Inmates
Alabama 4,833,722 3,769.4 418.1 3,351.3 7.2 29.5 96.2 285.2 877.8 2,254.8 218.7 647.3 753.2 1.2
Alaska 735,132 3,487.8 602.6 2,885.2 4.6 87.6 84.9 425.5 396.7 2,258.0 230.6 364.3 891.1 2.4
Arizona 6,626,624 3,804.9 405.8 3,399.1 5.4 35.4 101.1 263.9 732.4 2,403.5 263.2 586.5 745.7 1.3
Arkansas 2,959,373 4,048.3 445.7 3,602.6 5.4 33.6 76.3 330.5 1,030.1 2,380.6 191.9 578.4 806.0 1.4
California 38,332,521 3,054.3 396.2 2,658.1 4.6 19.5 139.9 232.3 605.4 1,621.5 431.2 353.3 662.0 1.9
Colorado 5,268,367 2,949.7 291.2 2,658.5 3.4 38.9 59.8 189.1 476.1 1,944.5 237.9 384.2 557.1 1.4
Connecticut 3,596,080 2,228.6 254.5 1,974.1 2.4 18.6 98.2 135.4 358.5 1,442.6 173.0 337.6 451.9 1.3
Delaware 925,749 3,544.6 479.1 3,065.5 4.2 28.7 132.4 313.7 662.3 2,259.4 143.9 442.4 785.7 1.8
Florida 19,552,860 3,565.3 460.0 3,105.3 5.0 24.1 118.7 312.3 710.5 2,216.3 178.6 523.7 770.5 1.5
Georgia 9,992,167 3,706.3 359.7 3,346.6 5.6 19.9 125.0 209.3 823.2 2,254.9 268.5 533.4 694.4 1.3
Hawaii 1,404,054 3,299.0 245.3 3,053.7 1.5 21.1 80.6 142.2 536.5 2,254.8 262.4 256.6 550.7 2.1
Idaho 1,612,136 2,069.0 204.7 1,864.3 1.7 28.3 13.6 161.0 411.9 1,357.1 95.3 466.2 391.1 0.8
Illinois 12,882,135 2,646.8 372.5 2,274.3 5.5 25.4 137.6 204.0 452.1 1,659.8 162.5 377.2 599.9 1.6
Indiana 6,570,902 3,203.9 349.9 2,854.0 5.4 25.0 108.2 211.3 653.0 1,984.9 216.2 453.8 635.3 1.4
Iowa 3,090,416 2,454.8 260.9 2,193.9 1.4 24.5 30.4 204.6 513.5 1,543.0 137.4 279.0 480.3 1.7
Kansas 2,893,957 3,274.3 327.5 2,946.8 3.9 28.9 46.6 248.1 600.4 2,117.0 229.5 327.8 622.2 1.9
Kentucky 4,395,295 2,561.7 198.8 2,362.9 3.8 25.6 73.9 95.5 596.4 1,629.3 137.2 461.6 435.1 0.9
Louisiana 4,625,470 4,092.4 510.4 3,582.0 10.8 26.9 119.9 352.8 890.4 2,493.6 198.0 847.1 868.6 1.0
Maine 1,328,302 2,413.8 121.6 2,292.2 1.8 25.9 25.2 68.7 488.1 1,735.3 68.8 148.5 350.8 2.4
Maryland 5,928,814 3,131.3 467.8 2,663.5 6.4 19.9 169.5 272.0 538.9 1,898.3 226.3 352.8 734.2 2.1
Massachusetts 6,692,824 2,455.2 404.0 2,051.2 2.0 31.2 100.2 270.5 459.2 1,455.7 136.3 192.2 609.1 3.2
Michigan 9,895,622 2,757.4 429.8 2,327.6 6.4 46.5 102.1 274.8 569.4 1,510.0 248.3 441.2 662.6 1.5
Minnesota 5,420,380 2,643.6 223.2 2,420.4 2.1 25.9 67.8 127.5 419.0 1,854.4 147.0 189.1 465.2 2.5
Mississippi 2,991,207 2,992.1 267.4 2,724.7 6.5 23.9 80.5 156.5 835.6 1,742.3 146.7 692.5 539.9 0.8
Missouri 6,044,171 3,559.0 422.0 3,137.0 6.1 26.5 90.7 298.7 643.0 2,223.9 270.1 520.6 735.7 1.4
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 1,015,165 2,797.2 240.7 2,556.5 2.2 28.3 20.1 190.2 400.3 1,974.0 182.2 357.2 496.4 1.4
Nebraska 1,868,516 2,875.6 252.2 2,623.4 3.1 33.0 55.7 160.5 476.3 1,908.2 238.9 262.7 514.5 2.0
Nevada 2,790,136 3,428.9 591.2 2,837.7 5.8 39.1 185.8 360.6 826.0 1,653.4 358.3 460.4 875.0 1.9
New Hampshire 1,323,459 2,393.9 199.6 2,194.3 1.7 36.2 49.0 112.7 373.0 1,750.3 71.0 215.2 419.0 1.9
New Jersey 8,899,339 2,168.4 285.6 1,882.8 4.5 9.7 135.8 135.6 403.1 1,325.2 154.5 251.6 473.9 1.9
New Mexico 2,085,287 4,301.5 596.7 3,704.8 6.0 54.0 86.8 449.9 1,029.9 2,391.8 283.2 320.6 967.2 3.0
New York 19,651,127 2,214.6 389.8 1,824.8 3.3 13.1 138.6 234.7 287.2 1,458.8 78.8 271.2 572.3 2.1
North Carolina 9,848,060 3,464.6 336.6 3,128.0 4.8 18.5 94.9 218.4 921.0 2,058.7 148.3 355.6 649.4 1.8
North Dakota 723,393 2,350.3 256.3 2,094.0 2.2 31.8 22.4 199.9 405.6 1,492.7 195.7 211.3 465.7 2.2
Ohio 11,570,808 3,203.2 275.7 2,927.5 3.9 24.4 124.2 123.2 790.2 1,968.5 168.8 446.4 568.5 1.3
Oklahoma 3,850,568 3,701.8 428.1 3,273.7 5.1 43.5 78.7 300.8 866.1 2,116.4 291.2 658.7 755.5 1.1
Oregon 3,930,065 3,416.8 242.9 3,173.9 2.0 37.1 61.0 142.7 528.5 2,394.5 250.9 385.0 560.3 1.5
Pennsylvania 12,773,801 2,387.4 326.6 2,060.8 4.7 20.7 115.6 185.7 407.3 1,545.6 107.8 391.5 532.7 1.4
Rhode Island 1,051,511 2,686.6 244.6 2,442.0 2.9 29.2 65.0 147.4 533.2 1,696.4 212.4 193.6 488.8 2.5
South Carolina 4,774,839 4,119.0 494.8 3,624.2 6.2 31.8 83.2 373.6 857.8 2,502.9 263.5 446.9 857.2 1.9
South Dakota 844,877 2,213.4 298.7 1,914.7 2.4 41.3 18.8 236.2 399.1 1,404.6 111.0 428.1 490.2 1.1
Tennessee 6,495,978 3,760.6 579.7 3,180.9 5.0 25.3 112.5 436.9 785.1 2,213.7 182.1 437.6 897.8 2.1
Texas 26,448,193 3,658.0 399.8 3,258.2 4.3 28.4 120.2 246.9 721.8 2,287.8 248.6 601.9 725.6 1.2
Utah 2,900,872 3,159.6 209.2 2,950.4 1.7 34.3 42.8 130.4 459.6 2,233.4 257.3 242.0 504.2 2.1
Vermont 626,630 2,329.1 114.9 2,214.2 1.6 14.5 11.6 87.1 528.7 1,632.2 53.3 251.3 336.3 1.3
Virginia 8,260,405 2,253.8 187.9 2,065.9 3.8 19.1 55.3 109.7 322.5 1,640.1 103.3 445.9 394.5 0.9
Washington 6,971,406 3,988.2 277.9 3,710.3 2.3 25.8 83.5 166.4 837.0 2,465.9 407.4 256.2 648.9 2.5
West Virginia 1,854,304 2,393.6 289.7 2,103.9 3.3 24.6 35.1 226.7 521.7 1,478.9 103.3 367.3 500.1 1.4
Wisconsin 5,742,713 2,459.8 271.1 2,188.7 2.8 22.6 84.2 161.6 424.0 1,636.0 128.6 369.9 490.0 1.3
Wyoming 582,658 2,396.1 197.7 2,198.4 2.9 24.7 12.9 157.2 335.5 1,763.6 99.2 394.6 417.5 1.1
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 7 14 7 2 17 20 12 5 12 20 4 11 9
Alaska 47 15 1 21 20 1 24 3 45 10 17 29 3 45
Arizona 15 6 15 6 13 10 17 16 14 4 9 6 12 11
Arkansas 32 4 10 4 12 12 31 7 1 7 25 7 7 20
California 1 25 18 27 21 44 3 21 20 39 1 32 18 31
Colorado 22 27 27 26 29 7 36 30 33 24 16 25 28 23
Connecticut 29 46 36 46 36 46 19 42 47 47 29 34 43 16
Delaware 45 14 7 16 24 20 7 8 17 9 36 18 8 29
Florida 4 12 9 15 17 37 12 9 16 16 28 9 9 25
Georgia 8 9 21 8 10 43 8 25 11 11 7 8 16 13
Hawaii 40 19 38 17 49 40 28 40 25 13 10 40 29 42
Idaho 39 50 44 49 47 23 48 34 39 49 46 11 48 2
Illinois 5 32 20 35 11 30 5 27 36 33 31 26 24 27
Indiana 16 21 22 22 14 32 15 24 18 21 21 14 21 21
Iowa 30 37 34 39 50 35 43 26 30 41 37 37 39 28
Kansas 34 20 24 19 25 19 40 17 21 18 18 35 22 33
Kentucky 26 34 46 32 27 29 32 48 22 38 38 12 44 4
Louisiana 25 3 5 5 1 24 11 6 4 2 23 1 5 5
Maine 41 38 49 34 44 27 44 50 31 31 49 50 49 44
Maryland 19 24 8 25 4 42 2 14 24 26 19 33 14 39
Massachusetts 14 36 16 45 43 16 18 15 35 46 39 48 23 50
Michigan 9 30 11 33 5 3 16 13 23 42 14 19 17 26
Minnesota 21 33 42 31 41 26 33 44 38 27 34 49 42 46
Mississippi 31 26 33 24 3 38 29 37 9 30 35 2 30 1
Missouri 18 13 13 13 7 25 22 11 19 15 6 10 13 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 29 41 29 39 22 46 29 43 22 26 30 35 19
Nebraska 37 28 37 28 32 13 37 35 32 25 15 39 32 37
Nevada 35 17 3 23 9 6 1 5 10 34 3 13 4 34
New Hampshire 42 40 45 38 46 9 39 46 46 29 48 45 45 36
New Jersey 11 49 29 48 22 50 6 41 42 50 32 42 40 32
New Mexico 36 1 2 2 8 2 23 1 2 6 5 36 1 49
New York 3 47 19 50 31 49 4 20 50 45 47 38 25 41
North Carolina 10 16 23 14 18 47 21 23 3 20 33 31 19 30
North Dakota 48 43 35 42 40 15 45 28 41 43 24 46 41 43
Ohio 7 22 31 20 26 36 9 45 12 23 30 16 26 12
Oklahoma 28 10 12 9 15 4 30 10 6 19 4 3 10 8
Oregon 27 18 40 12 42 8 35 39 28 5 12 24 27 24
Pennsylvania 6 42 25 44 19 41 13 31 40 40 42 23 31 17
Rhode Island 43 31 39 30 33 18 34 38 26 32 22 47 38 47
South Carolina 24 2 6 3 6 14 27 4 7 1 8 15 6 35
South Dakota 46 48 26 47 37 5 47 19 44 48 41 21 36 7
Tennessee 17 8 4 11 16 31 14 2 13 17 27 20 2 38
Texas 2 11 17 10 23 21 10 18 15 8 13 5 15 10
Utah 33 23 43 18 45 11 41 43 34 14 11 44 33 40
Vermont 49 44 50 36 48 48 50 49 27 37 50 43 50 15
Virginia 12 45 48 43 28 45 38 47 49 35 43 17 47 3
Washington 13 5 30 1 38 28 26 32 8 3 2 41 20 48
West Virginia 38 41 28 41 30 34 42 22 29 44 44 28 34 18
Wisconsin 20 35 32 40 35 39 25 33 37 36 40 27 37 14
Wyoming 50 39 47 37 34 33 49 36 48 28 45 22 46 6
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
1978 * 1979 * 1980 * 1981 * 1982 * 1983 * 1984 * 1985 * 1986 * 1987 * 1988 * 1989 * 1990 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1994 * 1995 * 1996 * 1997 * 1998 * 1999 * 2000 * 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 *

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  

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
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