What is in this file
One row per state, plus DC and Puerto Rico where available. The rank universe is 50 states; reference rows have an empty rank. The file is sorted by descending value with reference jurisdictions after the states.
- Period
- 2025
- Release
- 2026-08-14
- Updated
- 2026-10-23
- Producer
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Source
- Uniform Crime Reporting, estimated crimes · Estimated crimes 2025: homicide
- Units
- Per 100,000 residents
- Cadence
- Annual, usually in late summer
Quick validation snapshot
Louisiana has the highest estimate (8.7 per 100,000); Hawaii has the lowest (1.2 per 100,000). The U.S. benchmark is 4.1 per 100,000. These are useful checks when importing the CSV into a spreadsheet. Reference jurisdictions may lie outside the 50-state range, so exclude rows marked reference when reproducing the default state ranks.
The FBI does not publish margins of error. State figures are estimates: the FBI fills gaps for agencies that reported only part of the year or not at all. Reporting agencies covered 96.2% of the U.S. population in 2025, but coverage was limited in Florida and North Dakota.
Calculation and reproducibility
100,000 × estimated homicide offenses / FBI population estimate for the same year (Census-based). These match the FBI’s published state rates.
Immutable edition 2026-10-23 CSV · Full edition registry, including available histories
Column definitions
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rank | 1 + the number of states with a higher source value; empty for reference rows. |
| jurisdiction | State name or labeled reference jurisdiction. |
| value | Numeric estimate, using the source’s available precision. |
| unit | Per 100,000 residents |
| moe_90 | Published 90% margin of error in the same units; empty when not published. |
| reference | True if excluded from the default 50-state ranking. |
| period | Reference period of the observation. |
| release | Date of the source release. |
| source | Producer and table/file identifier. |
| source_url | Producer file or source documentation; microdata rows link to the specific state input ZIP. |
Limits and reuse
Small states record few murders, so their rates can swing sharply from one year to the next. The FBI flags 2025 data for Florida and North Dakota as limited.
This is an independent arrangement of federal statistical data. Cite the named producer for the original observations and Rank the States for computed ranks. Downloading or embedding does not imply government endorsement. Source files are archived with a checksum for reproducibility.
SHA-256: e7bf3de96b21d00fc10e9d60fee4d8257cba0a095ce5c5fc992047d46fb76486
Citation
Rank the States. Murder rate, 2025. Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting, estimated crimes, Estimated crimes 2025: homicide; released 2026-08-14. Edition 2026-10-23. https://rankthestates.com/data/editions/2026-10-23/murder-rate.csv