Original data research from the PlainCrime editorial team. Every page derives at least one statistic from our own database, cites primary sources inline, and documents its methodology and limits.
A decade of state-level FBI UCR data shows Vermont's violent-crime rate up 121.9% while Florida's fell 54.1% — the widest 2014-2024 movement in either direction. Decade-over-decade movers analyzed across all 50 states plus DC.
PlainCrime ingests the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting 2024 release: 8986 cities, 2443 counties, 51 states and 19585 law-enforcement agencies — a complete per-capita crime dataset for every US jurisdiction that submitted data.