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U.S. states ranked by firearm homicide rate per 100,000

All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Homicide deaths by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-27

National value: 4.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 19.7
RI 1.1
DE 4.8
CT 1.9
NJ 1.8
MD 6.5
MA 1.4
VT 1.9
NH 0.8

Lowest: 0.8 to 1.9
Group 2: 1.9 to 3.2
Group 3: 3.2 to 4.5
Group 4: 4.5 to 6.9
Highest: 6.9 to 19.7

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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	19.7
2	Mississippi	16
3	Louisiana	12.3
4	Alabama	11
5	New Mexico	9.7
6	Tennessee	8.1
7	South Carolina	7.8
8	Georgia	7.4
8	Missouri	7.4
10	Arkansas	6.9
10	Illinois	6.9
12	Maryland	6.5
13	North Carolina	6.3
14	Kentucky	5.9
15	Indiana	5.5
16	Nevada	5.3
17	Oklahoma	5
18	Ohio	4.9
19	Delaware	4.8
19	Texas	4.8
21	Alaska	4.5
21	Virginia	4.5
23	Arizona	4.4
24	Kansas	4.2
25	Michigan	4
26	Florida	3.9
26	Pennsylvania	3.9
28	Colorado	3.6
28	West Virginia	3.6
30	Wisconsin	3.5
31	South Dakota	3.2
32	California	3.1
33	Washington	3
34	Oregon	2.8
35	Minnesota	2.5
36	Montana	2.2
36	Nebraska	2.2
38	Iowa	2.1
39	Connecticut	1.9
39	Vermont	1.9
39	Wyoming	1.9
42	New Jersey	1.8
42	New York	1.8
44	Utah	1.7
45	Hawaii	1.4
45	Massachusetts	1.4
45	North Dakota	1.4
48	Idaho	1.3
49	Maine	1.1
49	Rhode Island	1.1
51	New Hampshire	0.8

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.

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U.S. states ranked by firearm homicide rate per 100,000 (2024). Data: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence – State (fpsi-y8tj); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-27. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-firearm-homicide-rate-per-100000/

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