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Six entry points into PlainCrime's crime-data library. Start with a geography (state, county, city), jump into rankings and safety grades, or read the explainer guides. Every page draws on the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

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All 50 states with city and county breakouts, multi-year trend tables, and state-level violent and property crime rates.

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Over 8,900 U.S. cities with safety grades (A+ to F), per-capita rates, year-over-year trends, and comparisons to state and national averages.

Browse Rankings →

National rankings: safest cities, most dangerous cities, lowest property crime, and composite safety scores based on FBI UCR benchmarks.

Browse Safety Grades →

Cities scored A+ through F on a composite safety grade combining violent and property crime rates against national benchmarks.

Browse National Trends →

Multi-year crime trend charts with violent and property crime rates tracked over the last decade of FBI UCR releases.

Browse Guides →

Plain-English explainers on reading FBI crime data, what UCR reports mean, why some stats mislead, and how safety affects housing and schools.

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Methodology

Every crime statistic on PlainCrime is sourced from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, specifically Crime in the United States, Table 8 (city-level offenses) and Table 10 (county agency offenses). Violent crime is defined per FBI standards as murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

Per-capita rates are calculated as (offenses ÷ reporting population) × 100,000. Where FBI populations are absent or known to lag, we cross-check against U.S. Census Bureau county and place-level population estimates. Safety grades (A+ through F) come from a composite index that benchmarks local violent and property rates against current national averages published in the UCR annual release.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every jurisdiction submits complete data every year. Small-population places can show volatile rates where a single incident distorts the per-capita number. Read our full methodology for the complete pipeline, scoring formula, caveats, and data limitations.