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Violent crime clearance rate: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Crimes cleared by arrest or exceptional means: Violent crime cleared. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Crimes cleared by arrest or exceptional means by state (FBI), ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 41.5 %
RI 50.6 %
DE 74.5 %
CT 46.9 %
NJ 48.1 %
MD 49.1 %
MA 51.4 %
VT 74.4 %
NH 49.5 %

Lowest: 26.1 to 38.7 %
Group 2: 38.7 to 43.8 %
Group 3: 43.8 to 49.5 %
Group 4: 49.5 to 53.3 %
Highest: 53.3 to 74.5 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Caution against ranking: the FBI warns that rankings based on its Uniform Crime Reporting data “lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions”. Agency participation, reporting practices and local conditions vary, so differences between states partly reflect reporting rather than crime. Source: FBI, Caution Against Ranking (Hate Crime Statistics).


1	Delaware	74.5
2	Vermont	74.4
3	Idaho	65
4	New York	61.2
5	Montana	59
6	Nebraska	56.7
7	Nevada	56.6
7	Virginia	56.6
7	Wisconsin	56.6
10	Utah	55.7
11	Maine	53.3
12	Iowa	53
12	Pennsylvania	53
14	North Dakota	52.4
15	Wyoming	51.8
16	South Dakota	51.7
17	Massachusetts	51.4
18	Rhode Island	50.6
19	Alaska	50.5
20	Oregon	50.3
21	New Hampshire	49.5
21	South Carolina	49.5
23	Maryland	49.1
24	Michigan	48.2
25	New Jersey	48.1
26	Minnesota	47.4
27	Kentucky	47.3
28	Colorado	46.9
28	Connecticut	46.9
30	Arkansas	44.1
31	Washington	43.8
32	Louisiana	43.3
33	California	42.9
34	Kansas	42.8
35	Hawaii	42.6
36	Tennessee	42.2
37	District of Columbia	41.5
38	Indiana	41.1
39	Florida	40.7
40	Arizona	39.9
41	Missouri	38.7
42	North Carolina	38.4
43	Oklahoma	37.6
43	West Virginia	37.6
45	Texas	36.8
46	Alabama	36.5
47	Ohio	33.8
48	Mississippi	33.3
49	Georgia	32.4
50	New Mexico	29
51	Illinois	26.1

Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer API: summarized state offense and clearance data, Jan–Dec 2024 (retrieved 2026-10-30). Reference period: 2024.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by crimes cleared by arrest or exceptional means: Violent crime cleared (2024). Data: FBI, Crime Data Explorer API, summarized state offense data (Uniform Crime Reporting Program), January–December 2024, retrieved 2026-10-30; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-crimes-cleared-by-arrest-or-exceptional-means-violent-crime-cleared/

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