Crime rates for U.S. cities, straight from police records.

Counted the FBI’s way, the same for every city, except where a department reports substantially less than it records. Those rows use the city’s own published count instead and are marked, because the comparable figure would be too low to be true.

1. 01
   Chicago, IL2,320

   City’s own count · reports 392 to the FBI

   63,709 reported in the 12 months to August 2026−4% vs. prev. 12 mo
2. 02
   Little Rock, AR1,463
   3,004 reported in the 12 months to July 2026−9% vs. prev. 12 mo
3. 03
   Detroit, MI1,381
   8,869 reported in the 12 months to September 2026−20% vs. prev. 12 mo
4. 04
   Memphis, TN1,325
   8,035 reported in the 12 months to September 2026−38% vs. prev. 12 mo
5. 05
   Cleveland, OH1,276
   4,640 reported in the 12 months to June 2026−14% vs. prev. 12 mo

Violent crime is homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Departments report on different schedules, so each row says which month its data reaches. Where a city also runs its own open-data portal, that count appears underneath, and it is usually higher because a department records more than it reports.

State rates are the FBI’s violent crime index (homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) for 12 months to Jun 2026. City rates use the same FBI index, so a city and its state can be compared directly. How we count

The six largest cities we cover. Neighborhood pages and street maps exist where the police department publishes incident-level data.