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Murders cleared by arrest or exceptional means: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 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 45.3 %
RI 56.5 %
DE 64.5 %
CT 64.8 %
NJ 64.2 %
MD 61.9 %
MA 55.4 %
VT 73.9 %
NH 71.4 %

Lowest: 29.9 to 55.4 %
Group 2: 55.4 to 63.4 %
Group 3: 63.4 to 69.7 %
Group 4: 69.7 to 73.9 %
Highest: 73.9 to 91.5 %

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	Nebraska	91.5
2	North Dakota	90
3	Iowa	86.5
4	Wyoming	84.6
5	Nevada	82.8
6	Minnesota	78
7	Colorado	77.7
8	Maine	76.5
9	South Carolina	75.9
10	Idaho	74.3
11	Utah	73.9
11	Vermont	73.9
13	Virginia	73.5
14	New York	71.9
15	South Dakota	71.8
16	New Hampshire	71.4
17	Pennsylvania	71.2
18	Missouri	70.9
19	Alaska	70.6
20	Arizona	70.2
21	Montana	69.7
22	North Carolina	69.6
23	Oregon	69.5
24	Florida	65.1
25	Connecticut	64.8
26	Delaware	64.5
27	Texas	64.4
28	New Jersey	64.2
29	Kansas	63.8
30	California	63.7
31	Michigan	63.4
32	Wisconsin	62.4
33	Maryland	61.9
34	Kentucky	61.5
35	Tennessee	59.6
36	Oklahoma	59.2
36	Washington	59.2
38	Arkansas	58.2
39	Mississippi	56.8
40	Rhode Island	56.5
41	Massachusetts	55.4
42	Alabama	54.1
43	Indiana	52
44	Georgia	51.8
45	Louisiana	49
46	Ohio	47.6
47	District of Columbia	45.3
48	West Virginia	45.2
49	Hawaii	44.1
50	Illinois	34.7
51	New Mexico	29.9

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 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 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-murder-and-nonnegligent-manslaughter-cleared/

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