Interactive crime data

Crime Data Tools

Three free, interactive tools built on the same FBI Uniform Crime Reporting dataset: compare cities, look one up, or rank the safest places by state.

Data updated 2026-09-05

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Free tools
8,986
Cities covered
352/100K
U.S. violent average

These three tools look up the same FBI Uniform Crime Reporting rates for 8,986 U.S. cities: the national violent-crime average is 352 per 100,000 and Maine sits at 102.

FBI Uniform Crime Reporting for 2024 puts the U.S. violent-crime average at 352 per 100,000 and property crime at 1711. Maine has the lowest state violent-crime rate this vintage (101.6 per 100,000). The three tools query the same 8,986 city rows for compare, lookup, or state rank. Figures are voluntary agency submissions.

  • 352/100K U.S. violent-crime average
  • 1711/100K U.S. property-crime average
  • 8,986 cities in the lookup registry
  • 102/100K Maine state violent-crime rate

Why these tools exist

Crime in America is intensely local: Maine reports under 102 violent crimes per 100,000 while the worst-hit cities top 2,000. A single national average hides that, so these tools turn 8,986 cities of FBI data into a like-for-like comparison.

352/100K
U.S. violent-crime average
1711/100K
U.S. property-crime average
8,986
cities you can look up or compare
102/100K
Maine, the safest state
01 City Safety Comparison Put up to four cities side by side on safety score, grade, and violent and property crime rates. Compare cities → 02 Crime Rate Lookup Search any U.S. city and get its safety grade, score, and crime rates in a single step. Look up a city → 03 Safest Cities Finder Filter cities by state and population to rank the safest qualifying places. Find safest cities →

Where all 51 states sit before you drill down

Exclusive FBI UCR 2024 violent-crime rate bands for every state and DC row. The safest-state chart below is the low-rate tail of this same file.

Safest large U.S. cities

Cities over 250,000 residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Look any of them up in the tools above.

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What this shows Irvine is the safest U.S. city over 250,000 residents, at 84 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

The eight safest states right now

Violent crimes per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer, hover any bar for the exact rate.

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What this shows Maine reports the lowest violent-crime rate in the country. At 101.6 per 100,000, it runs about 3.5× below the national average of 352. Use the tools above to drill from a state down to individual cities.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

What a lookup returns, across all 8,986 cities

Share of the registry carrying each independently-verifiable data layer. Every crime-rate lookup above draws from this same coverage.

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What this shows Every one of 8,986 cities carries a base record with violent- and property-crime rates, so any lookup above returns a full safety grade. Land-area data (needed for a density metric) covers 87.4% of cities. Multi-year FBI rows (two or more reporting years) cover 97.8% of cities, so year-over-year change on city profiles is live where both years clear the completeness screen.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program + U.S. Census Bureau As of 2024

Related crime data

All rankingsSafest, most dangerous, and more. Browse by stateCrime data for all 50 states. Browse citiesProfiles for 8,900+ cities. Crime data guidesHow to read the statistics. ResearchOriginal analysis of FBI data. MethodologyHow safety scores are built.

Frequently asked questions

What can these crime data tools do?
Each tool answers a different question from the same FBI dataset: compare specific cities head to head, look up a single city fast, or filter and rank the safest cities in a state. All three return the same safety score so results stay consistent across tools.
Do the tools cost anything or require sign-up?
No. Every tool is free, needs no account, and runs entirely on public FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data. Results link straight to full city profiles for deeper context.

Download the FBI UCR city-crime extract cited on this page: plaincrime-city-crime.csv (FBI Uniform Crime Reporting · CC0).

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.