CurrentCrimeMap

Data through August 2026, police departments via the FBI

U.S. crime trends through August 2026

From January to August 2026, violent crime in the 169 cities and county areas with complete reports was down 6% from the same months of 2025, property crime down 11% and homicides down 17%. In August alone, violent crime was down 8% from August 2025.

These are sums of the cities and county areas this site covers, not totals for the United States. A place counts only if it has reported every month from January to August in full, in both years, so each line below adds up the same places in every month.

What changed this month

August 2026 edition

In August 2026, the 169 cities and county areas with complete reports for every month since January of both years recorded 26,289 violent crimes, 8% fewer than the 28,618 they recorded in August 2025. From January to August, the total was 203,387, 6% fewer than the 216,492 in the same months of 2025. These are sums of the places this site covers, not totals for the United States.

Property crime in August 2026: 88,679 reports, 16% fewer than the 106,159 of August 2025. From January to August, 732,775, 11% fewer than the 821,893 in the same months of 2025.

Homicides: 254 in August 2026 and 313 in August 2025, across 169 places. From January to August they totaled 2,145, 17% fewer than the 2,573 in the same months of 2025. A single month of homicides can move a lot from one year to the next, so the total since January says more than the month alone.

Violent crime from January to August was lower than a year earlier in 119 of the 169 places and higher in 48, with 2 unchanged. Among places with at least 150 violent crimes in each period, the largest declines were in Great Falls, MT (−30%), Memphis, TN (−29%) and Rockford, IL (−24%), and the largest increases in Moreno Valley, CA (+76%), Tucson, AZ (+33%) and Fort Pierce, FL (+26%). Summing the covered places in each state, violent crime was lower in 25 of the 36 states with enough reports and higher in 4, and within 3% in 7.

The totals

Jan–Aug 2026 vs. 2025
Violent crime, Jan–Aug
203,387
−6% vs. 216,492 in 2025
August: 26,289 (−8%) vs. 28,618
169 places
Property crime, Jan–Aug
732,775
−11% vs. 821,893 in 2025
August: 88,679 (−16%) vs. 106,159
169 places
Homicides, Jan–Aug
2,145
−17% vs. 2,573 in 2025
August: 254 (−19%) vs. 313
169 places

Violent crime same 169 places

Violent crimes per month, 2026 against 2025.

010,00020,00030,00040,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug26,28928,618
Violent crime per month in the same 169 places, 2026 and 2025
Month20262025
Jan2275624634
Feb2125522161
Mar2525226276
Apr2557426911
May2773328938
Jun2668029145
Jul2784829809
Aug2628928618

Property crime same 169 places

Property crimes per month, 2026 against 2025.

050,000100,000150,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug88,679106,159
Property crime per month in the same 169 places, 2026 and 2025
Month20262025
Jan89682102826
Feb8229691495
Mar92315101874
Apr9077999489
May97164106666
Jun95644103629
Jul96216109755
Aug88679106159

Homicides same 169 places

Homicides per month, 2026 against 2025.

0100200300400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug254313
Homicides per month in the same 169 places, 2026 and 2025
Month20262025
Jan257327
Feb230261
Mar269270
Apr249341
May296354
Jun292352
Jul298355
Aug254313

Month by month in the same places. September joins the next edition once more than half of the places have reported it in full. Homicides are counted in the places that report them separately, the same as on Homicides in 2026.

Biggest changes in violent crime

at least 150 in each period

Biggest increases

  1. Moreno Valley, CA+76%675 from Jan–Aug 2026, 384 in 2025
  2. Tucson, AZ+33%2,073 from Jan–Aug 2026, 1,557 in 2025
  3. Fort Pierce, FL+26%191 from Jan–Aug 2026, 151 in 2025
  4. Columbus, GA+16%621 from Jan–Aug 2026, 534 in 2025
  5. Virginia Beach, VA+16%341 from Jan–Aug 2026, 294 in 2025
  6. Grand Prairie, TX+16%330 from Jan–Aug 2026, 285 in 2025
  7. Atlanta, GA+13%2,828 from Jan–Aug 2026, 2,495 in 2025
  8. Overland Park, KS+11%252 from Jan–Aug 2026, 228 in 2025
  9. Riverside, CA+10%1,174 from Jan–Aug 2026, 1,068 in 2025
  10. Cincinnati, OH+9%1,772 from Jan–Aug 2026, 1,622 in 2025

Biggest decreases

  1. Great Falls, MT−30%186 from Jan–Aug 2026, 267 in 2025
  2. Memphis, TN−29%6,122 from Jan–Aug 2026, 8,596 in 2025
  3. Rockford, IL−24%703 from Jan–Aug 2026, 922 in 2025
  4. Hialeah, FL−23%219 from Jan–Aug 2026, 283 in 2025
  5. Ocala, FL−22%155 from Jan–Aug 2026, 199 in 2025
  6. Pasadena, TX−22%347 from Jan–Aug 2026, 445 in 2025
  7. Springfield, IL−21%565 from Jan–Aug 2026, 713 in 2025
  8. Clarksville, TN−21%393 from Jan–Aug 2026, 495 in 2025
  9. Nashville, TN−20%3,821 from Jan–Aug 2026, 4,781 in 2025
  10. Arlington, TX−20%895 from Jan–Aug 2026, 1,118 in 2025

Ranked by percentage change from January to August 2026 against the same months of 2025, among the 122 places with at least 150 violent crimes in each period; with fewer, a few cases move the percentage a lot. A large change can also come from a change in how a department records or reports crime.

By state

sum of covered places

Change in violent crime from January to August 2026 against the same months of 2025, adding up the places this site covers in each state. It is not the statewide figure: towns we do not cover are missing.

Alaska: no covered placesAlabama: −9% (2,839 violent crimes in 3 places, 3,131 in the same months of 2025)Arkansas: no covered placesArizona: +12% (4,599 violent crimes in 6 places, 4,120 in the same months of 2025)California: −3% (31,656 violent crimes in 12 places, 32,568 in the same months of 2025)Colorado: −10% (8,177 violent crimes in 4 places, 9,124 in the same months of 2025)Connecticut: −6% (747 violent crimes in 3 places, 795 in the same months of 2025)Washington, D.C.: +3% (3,684 violent crimes in 1 place, 3,593 in the same months of 2025)Delaware: no covered placesFlorida: −7% (10,152 violent crimes in 36 places, 10,933 in the same months of 2025)Georgia: +14% (3,449 violent crimes in 2 places, 3,029 in the same months of 2025)Hawaii: no covered placesIowa: 0% (1,597 violent crimes in 3 places, 1,593 in the same months of 2025)Idaho: +12% (1,019 violent crimes in 8 places, 911 in the same months of 2025)Illinois: −5% (48,262 violent crimes in 5 places, 50,666 in the same months of 2025)Indiana: 36 violent crimes in 1 place, 37 in 2025; too few to shadeKansas: −2% (457 violent crimes in 2 places, 465 in the same months of 2025)Kentucky: no covered placesLouisiana: no covered placesMassachusetts: −3% (2,915 violent crimes in 2 places, 3,014 in the same months of 2025)Maryland: −14% (441 violent crimes in 3 places, 513 in the same months of 2025)Maine: no covered placesMichigan: −2% (9,021 violent crimes in 5 places, 9,225 in the same months of 2025)Minnesota: 0% (4,033 violent crimes in 3 places, 4,042 in the same months of 2025)Missouri: −8% (2,471 violent crimes in 2 places, 2,694 in the same months of 2025)Mississippi: 84 violent crimes in 1 place, 109 in 2025; too few to shadeMontana: −19% (1,243 violent crimes in 5 places, 1,544 in the same months of 2025)North Carolina: −10% (7,008 violent crimes in 6 places, 7,776 in the same months of 2025)North Dakota: −5% (563 violent crimes in 3 places, 595 in the same months of 2025)Nebraska: −7% (1,891 violent crimes in 2 places, 2,037 in the same months of 2025)New Hampshire: −10% (239 violent crimes in 1 place, 266 in the same months of 2025)New Jersey: −6% (946 violent crimes in 1 place, 1,008 in the same months of 2025)New Mexico: +1% (3,961 violent crimes in 1 place, 3,922 in the same months of 2025)Nevada: no covered placesNew York: −3% (940 violent crimes in 2 places, 973 in the same months of 2025)Ohio: −7% (9,043 violent crimes in 5 places, 9,749 in the same months of 2025)Oklahoma: no covered placesOregon: −5% (3,259 violent crimes in 2 places, 3,432 in the same months of 2025)Pennsylvania: −16% (208 violent crimes in 1 place, 247 in the same months of 2025)Puerto Rico: no covered placesRhode Island: −4% (164 violent crimes in 2 places, 170 in the same months of 2025)South Carolina: −16% (946 violent crimes in 2 places, 1,123 in the same months of 2025)South Dakota: no covered placesTennessee: −23% (12,106 violent crimes in 5 places, 15,697 in the same months of 2025)Texas: −8% (21,151 violent crimes in 18 places, 23,038 in the same months of 2025)Utah: −14% (518 violent crimes in 2 places, 599 in the same months of 2025)Virginia: +5% (1,025 violent crimes in 3 places, 977 in the same months of 2025)Vermont: 117 violent crimes in 1 place, 160 in 2025; too few to shadeWashington: −8% (2,113 violent crimes in 2 places, 2,307 in the same months of 2025)Wisconsin: no covered placesWest Virginia: 67 violent crimes in 1 place, 55 in 2025; too few to shadeWyoming: −6% (240 violent crimes in 2 places, 255 in the same months of 2025)
10% or more lower3 to 10% lowerwithin 3%3 to 10% higher10% or more higherfewer than 300 casesno covered places
Every state in the map
Violent crime from January to August 2026 and in the same months of 2025, sum of covered places in each state
StatePlaces20262025Change
Alabama32,8393,131−9%
Arizona64,5994,120+12%
California1231,65632,568−3%
Colorado48,1779,124−10%
Connecticut3747795−6%
District of Columbia13,6843,593+3%
Florida3610,15210,933−7%
Georgia23,4493,029+14%
Idaho81,019911+12%
Illinois548,26250,666−5%
Indiana13637−3%, few cases
Iowa31,5971,5930%
Kansas2457465−2%
Maryland3441513−14%
Massachusetts22,9153,014−3%
Michigan59,0219,225−2%
Minnesota34,0334,0420%
Mississippi184109−23%, few cases
Missouri22,4712,694−8%
Montana51,2431,544−19%
Nebraska21,8912,037−7%
New Hampshire1239266−10%
New Jersey19461,008−6%
New Mexico13,9613,922+1%
New York2940973−3%
North Carolina67,0087,776−10%
North Dakota3563595−5%
Ohio59,0439,749−7%
Oregon23,2593,432−5%
Pennsylvania1208247−16%
Rhode Island2164170−4%
South Carolina29461,123−16%
Tennessee512,10615,697−23%
Texas1821,15123,038−8%
Utah2518599−14%
Vermont1117160−27%, few cases
Virginia31,025977+5%
Washington22,1132,307−8%
West Virginia16755+22%, few cases
Wyoming2240255−6%

Editions

one a month
  1. U.S. crime trends through August 2026 (latest)
  2. U.S. crime trends through July 2026
Previous edition: July 2026

A new edition comes out each month, once more than half of the places have reported the month in full.

How this is counted

complete months only

Only the months each department has reported in full, compared with the same months of 2025. No month is estimated.

Read the full method
  • A place counts in a line only if every month from January to August 2026 and from January to August 2025 is complete on its own page. A month that may still be incomplete, because the department is still loading it or reported only part of it, keeps the place out, and no month is estimated. That is why the totals here can be smaller than the sum of every place on the site.
  • Each place is counted as its page shows it: what the department reports to the FBI, or, where its FBI reports are incomplete, its own published count. Every comparison is a place against itself a year earlier, so the change is fair even where a department counts more offenses than the FBI does.
  • Violent crime is homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault as the FBI counts them; property crime is burglary, theft and motor vehicle theft. Some departments do not report property crime every month, so that line covers fewer places.
  • Biggest changes: places with at least 150 violent crimes in each period, ranked by percentage. A change is left out when it looks like a gap in reporting: homicides above 10% of violent crime in either period, or one period below 15% of the other.
  • States with fewer than 300 violent crimes across the two periods in the places we cover are shown in light gray.
  • Earlier editions are recalculated each day with the latest reports, so a late correction from a department shows up in them too. The text under “What changed this month” is the one written for each edition.
  • Download this edition with every place and month (JSON). Methodology