Hawaii's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows increases on both major offense rates — read the lead series charts before the secondary rate.
Rising-window verdict
Hawaii's violent crime rate rose 84.8% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate rose 20.5%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Hawaii's violent rate rose 97.8% (+121.9 per 100K) from 2014 to 2015 (124.7 → 246.6) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 11.4% from 2022 to 2023 (275.9 → 244.4).
Hawaii's violent gap vs the US aggregate moved from 65.7% below in 2014 to 34.5% below in 2024 (+31.2 pp).
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 14.6%, compared with +84.8% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 275.9 in 2022; the lowest was 124.7 in 2014. The latest value lies 70% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 124.7 to 230.5 per 100,000 (+84.8%). Property crime moved from 1703.5 to 2052.6 (+20.5%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2014 to 2015: +97.8%. Across the full sequence, 6 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 4 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 230.5 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 34.5% below. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent | Rate | YoY | Property | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,446,146 | 3,333 | 230.5 | ↓ 5.7% | 29,684 | 2052.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,435,138 | 3,507 | 244.4 | ↓ 11.4% | 31,527 | 2196.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,440,196 | 3,974 | 275.9 | ↑ 2.2% | 37,322 | 2591.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,441,553 | 3,891 | 269.9 | ↑ 2.4% | 38,543 | 2673.7 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,407,006 | 3,710 | 263.7 | ↓ 2.3% | 34,786 | 2472.3 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 1,415,872 | 3,822 | 269.9 | ↑ 3.3% | 41,126 | 2904.6 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 1,420,491 | 3,713 | 261.4 | ↑ 4.3% | 41,500 | 2921.5 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 1,427,538 | 3,577 | 250.6 | ↑ 3.7% | 40,899 | 2865 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 1,428,557 | 3,452 | 241.6 | ↓ 2.0% | 42,838 | 2998.7 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 1,431,603 | 3,530 | 246.6 | ↑ 97.8% | 45,806 | 3199.6 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 1,419,561 | 1,770 | 124.7 | - | 24,182 | 1703.5 |
More in Hawaii: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Hawaii (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.