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Officers per 100,000 people: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Officers per 100,000 people (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Law enforcement employees by state (FBI), ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

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Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-03
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National value: 240.7 (United States).

Washington: 136Idaho: 162.4Montana: 181.5North Dakota: 244.2Minnesota: 175.5Michigan: 187.3Ohio: 213.2Pennsylvania: 260.9New York: 318.1Vermont: 169.5New Hampshire: 205.6Maine: 172.2Arizona: 167.5California: 227New Mexico: 275.3Texas: 221.1Louisiana: 312.8Mississippi: 220.8Alabama: 239.1Florida: 209.1Georgia: 244.8South Carolina: 244.1North Carolina: 221Virginia: 217.9District of Columbia: 522.2Maryland: 243.6Delaware: 226.5New Jersey: 412.9Connecticut: 212.9Rhode Island: 229.6Massachusetts: 255.2Oregon: 155.1Utah: 171.1Wyoming: 260Nevada: 208.1Colorado: 220.1South Dakota: 219.3Nebraska: 191.1Kansas: 258.4Oklahoma: 232.4Iowa: 181.3Missouri: 230.1Wisconsin: 229.3Illinois: 275.7Kentucky: 197Arkansas: 236.6Tennessee: 266.5West Virginia: 188.2Indiana: 194Alaska: 164.3Hawaii: 184.3

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 136 to 181.5
  • Group 2: 181.5 to 212.9
  • Group 3: 212.9 to 229.3
  • Group 4: 229.3 to 255.2
  • Highest: 255.2 to 522.2
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).

1District of Columbia522.2
2New Jersey412.9
3New York318.1
4Louisiana312.8
5Illinois275.7
6New Mexico275.3
7Tennessee266.5
8Pennsylvania260.9
9Wyoming260
10Kansas258.4
11Massachusetts255.2
12Georgia244.8
13North Dakota244.2
14South Carolina244.1
15Maryland243.6
16Alabama239.1
17Arkansas236.6
18Oklahoma232.4
19Missouri230.1
20Rhode Island229.6
21Wisconsin229.3
22California227
23Delaware226.5
24Texas221.1
25North Carolina221
26Mississippi220.8
27Colorado220.1
28South Dakota219.3
29Virginia217.9
30Ohio213.2
31Connecticut212.9
32Florida209.1
33Nevada208.1
34New Hampshire205.6
35Kentucky197
36Indiana194
37Nebraska191.1
38West Virginia188.2
39Michigan187.3
40Hawaii184.3
41Montana181.5
42Iowa181.3
43Minnesota175.5
44Maine172.2
45Utah171.1
46Vermont169.5
47Arizona167.5
48Alaska164.3
49Idaho162.4
50Oregon155.1
51Washington136

Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer API: Law Enforcement Employees (police employee data, LEOKA program), 2024 (retrieved 2026-11-03). Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by officers per 100,000 people (derived) (2024). Data: FBI, Crime Data Explorer API, police employee (LEOKA) data, 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-officers-per-100000-people-derived/

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