FBI crime statistics 2025 highlight broad declines across several categories, including a national murder rate of 4.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, which the bureau noted is tied with 1955 and 1956 for the lowest rate on record.
According to officials, property crime and hate crime also fell in 2025. Law enforcement agencies submitted reports of 10,881 hate crime incidents and 13,026 related offenses motivated by bias related to race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
To assess national trends, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program analyzed a dataset limited to agencies that provided six or more common months of hate crime data in both 2024 and 2025, including both incident submissions and zero reports. Based on that dataset, reported hate crime incidents decreased 7.0 percent, from 11,404 in 2024 to 10,606 in 2025.
More than 17,000 state, county, city, tribal, and university and college agencies, representing jurisdictions covering 96.2 percent of the U.S. population, submitted data to the UCR Program through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the Summary Reporting System. Nearly 17,000 agencies, specifically 16,791, took part in the Hate Crime Data Collection, with population coverage of 95.3 percent.
Reported Crimes in the Nation (RCN) for 2025 consists of five components: Crime in the United States, 2025, NIBRS, 2025, Hate Crime Statistics, 2025, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 2025 assault tables, and the UCR Summary of Reported Crimes in the Nation, 2025.
FBI crime statistics 2025 available on Crime Data Explorer
The full analysis is posted on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. Alongside downloadable tables and traditional data elements, the bureau introduced RCN Online, a set of dashboards designed to modernize the annual release and make high-interest information, including 2025 violent and property crime trends, easier to access.
The bureau’s expanded national crime work comes as other initiatives, such as Operation Steadfast Promise, focus on specific communities and regions.