Homicide rate: United States, Canada and Mexico compared

Homicides per 100,000 people, nationally and for each state, province, territory and estado. Each figure keeps its own source, reference period and definition; read the notes before comparing.

National values

Homicide rate, national values. Periods: United States 2024; Canada 2025; Mexico 2025, preliminary.

National values
Country	Homicide rate	Period	Basis
United States	6	2024	CDC death records, state of residence
Canada	1.61	2025	Police-reported victims (Homicide Survey)
Mexico	21.4	2025, preliminary	INEGI death records, state of registration (derived rate)

Source: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence – State, data.cdc.gov dataset fpsi-y8tj (intents All_Homicide and FA_Homicide; U.S. total from the National dataset t6u2-f84c; data as of 2026-06-22). Reference period: 2024.

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0068-01: Number, rate and percentage changes in rates of homicide victims. Reference period: 2025.

Source: INEGI, Estadísticas de Defunciones Registradas (EDR): Defunciones por homicidio, enero a diciembre de 2025 (preliminary), Reporte de resultados 28/26 (August 3, 2026), Tabla 1 (presumed homicides by state of registration), Tabla 2 (rates) and Tabla 4 (population, June 30). Reference period: 2025, preliminary.

States, provinces and estados

United States Canada Mexico (hatched)

Homicide rate per 100,000, latest available, sorted high to low. 30 areas ranked by Homicide rate per 100,000. Highest: MX · Colima (88.8); lowest: CA · NB (1.7). Showing the 10 highest areas in each country. Caution: this chart ranks areas from three different systems together. U.S. and Mexican rates come from death records (Mexico's are preliminary and derived), Canada's from police-reported victims, and reference years differ, so the order across countries is indicative only. Full data in the table below.Source: U.S., Canadian and Mexican official sources.

Show all 96 areas

Homicide rate per 100,000, latest available, sorted high to low. 96 areas ranked by Homicide rate per 100,000. Highest: MX · Colima (88.8); lowest: CA · Quebec (1.0). All 96 areas. Caution: this chart ranks areas from three different systems together. U.S. and Mexican rates come from death records (Mexico's are preliminary and derived), Canada's from police-reported victims, and reference years differ, so the order across countries is indicative only. Full data in the table below.Source: U.S., Canadian and Mexican official sources.


Colima	Mexico	88.8
Morelos	Mexico	57.7
Sinaloa	Mexico	57.2
Baja California	Mexico	55.5
Sonora	Mexico	53.7
Chihuahua	Mexico	53.3
Guanajuato	Mexico	51.3
Guerrero	Mexico	39.1
Tabasco	Mexico	35.6
Michoacán de Ocampo	Mexico	31.1
Quintana Roo	Mexico	28.1
District of Columbia	United States	25.3
Baja California Sur	Mexico	23.2
Mississippi	United States	18.6
Oaxaca	Mexico	18.1
Nunavut	Canada	16.73
Jalisco	Mexico	16
Zacatecas	Mexico	15.9
Nayarit	Mexico	15.3
Puebla	Mexico	14.6
México	Mexico	14.5
Louisiana	United States	14.4
San Luis Potosí	Mexico	12.8
New Mexico	United States	12.7
Alabama	United States	12.6
Nuevo León	Mexico	11.9
Northwest Territories	Canada	10.88
Campeche	Mexico	10.4
Tennessee	United States	9.8
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	Mexico	9.8
Aguascalientes	Mexico	9.5
South Carolina	United States	9.4
Tlaxcala	Mexico	9.4
Hidalgo	Mexico	9.2
Georgia	United States	9.1
Missouri	United States	9
Ciudad de México	Mexico	8.7
Maryland	United States	8.6
Illinois	United States	8.4
Tamaulipas	Mexico	8.4
Arkansas	United States	8.1
North Carolina	United States	7.7
Alaska	United States	7.6
Chiapas	Mexico	7.2
Indiana	United States	7
Oklahoma	United States	7
Querétaro	Mexico	7
Kentucky	United States	6.9
Nevada	United States	6.9
Delaware	United States	6.5
Arizona	United States	6.3
Ohio	United States	6.3
Yukon	Canada	6.21
Texas	United States	6.1
South Dakota	United States	6
Durango	Mexico	5.6
Virginia	United States	5.5
West Virginia	United States	5.5
Michigan	United States	5.4
Kansas	United States	5.3
Pennsylvania	United States	5.3
Saskatchewan	Canada	5.21
Colorado	United States	5.2
Florida	United States	5.2
Wyoming	United States	4.6
California	United States	4.5
Wisconsin	United States	4.5
Washington	United States	4.4
Montana	United States	4.2
Oregon	United States	4
Manitoba	Canada	3.64
New York	United States	3.5
Iowa	United States	3.3
Minnesota	United States	3.3
Vermont	United States	3.2
Coahuila de Zaragoza	Mexico	3.2
Nebraska	United States	3
Connecticut	United States	2.9
New Jersey	United States	2.8
Hawaii	United States	2.7
North Dakota	United States	2.6
Maine	United States	2.4
Utah	United States	2.4
Massachusetts	United States	2.2
Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	2.18
British Columbia	Canada	1.81
Idaho	United States	1.8
Rhode Island	United States	1.8
Yucatán	Mexico	1.8
Alberta	Canada	1.77
Nova Scotia	Canada	1.74
New Brunswick	Canada	1.72
Prince Edward Island	Canada	1.64
New Hampshire	United States	1.3
Ontario	Canada	1.27
Quebec	Canada	0.97

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0068-01: Number, rate and percentage changes in rates of homicide victims. Reference period: 2025.

How the countries differ

Sources differ: U.S. and Mexican figures come from death certificates (deaths whose underlying cause is assault/homicide, ICD-10 X85–Y09 and related codes); Canada's come from police-reported homicide victims (Statistics Canada Homicide Survey), which counts victims of murder, manslaughter and infanticide.
Geography differs: U.S. deaths are counted by the person's state of residence; Mexico's by state of registration; Canada's by the province or territory where the police service reported the homicide.
Reference years differ (United States 2024, Canada 2025, Mexico 2025, preliminary); Mexico's latest year is preliminary.
Mexico's one-decimal rate is derived by Quadranac from INEGI's published counts and June 30 population estimates; INEGI publishes the rate rounded to whole numbers (21 nationally for 2025).
Small populations (for example Nunavut, Yukon or Prince Edward Island) can show large swings from a few cases; read rates for small areas with caution.

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Homicide rate: United States, Canada and Mexico compared. Compiled by Quadranac from CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; INEGI; Statistics Canada. Data last updated 2026-10-27. https://quadranac.com/comparison/homicide-rate/

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