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U.S. states ranked by homicide deaths

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: 20,162 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 172
RI 20
DE 67
CT 104
NJ 264
MD 529
MA 153
VT 21
NH 18

Lowest: 18 to 56
Group 2: 56 to 172
Group 3: 172 to 344
Group 4: 344 to 659
Highest: 659 to 1,851

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	Texas	1,851
2	California	1,768
3	Florida	1,183
4	Illinois	1,058
5	Georgia	1,001
6	North Carolina	834
7	Ohio	744
8	Tennessee	697
9	New York	693
10	Pennsylvania	684
11	Louisiana	659
12	Alabama	645
13	Missouri	555
14	Mississippi	548
15	Michigan	538
16	Maryland	529
17	South Carolina	505
18	Indiana	482
19	Virginia	477
20	Arizona	467
21	Washington	344
22	Kentucky	314
23	Colorado	305
24	Oklahoma	283
25	New Mexico	268
26	Wisconsin	266
27	New Jersey	264
28	Arkansas	247
29	Nevada	221
30	Minnesota	192
31	District of Columbia	172
32	Oregon	171
33	Kansas	156
34	Massachusetts	153
35	Iowa	105
36	Connecticut	104
37	West Virginia	97
38	Utah	82
39	Delaware	67
40	Nebraska	59
41	Alaska	56
42	South Dakota	55
43	Montana	48
44	Hawaii	39
45	Idaho	36
46	Maine	34
47	Wyoming	27
48	Vermont	21
49	North Dakota	20
49	Rhode Island	20
51	New Hampshire	18

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 homicide deaths (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-homicide-deaths/

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