About the data

Every figure on this site comes from two public sources: the FBI's NIBRS crime file for 2024 and Census population estimates.

What counts

A home burglary here is an offense coded 220 (burglary) where the location type is residence or home. Method of entry is the FBI's forced or not forced field. Hour is the incident hour on the incident record.

Rates

Rates are reported home burglaries per 100,000 residents. The population is the sum of the population served by agencies that reported all twelve months of 2024, which makes the rate an estimate. States where those agencies cover under 75% of residents are listed separately and not ranked. Nebraska has no 2024 data in the file.

Limits

• NIBRS participation is voluntary. The data is not a representative sample of the US and not a national total.
• Many agencies record midnight when the real hour is unknown, so the midnight hour is overstated.
• Method of entry says whether force was used, not whether the door was locked.
• Michigan's no-forced-entry share looks like a local coding difference and is left out of that ranking.
• Counts are offenses, not victims or households. The data can't link repeat burglaries at one home.

Why state level only

Crime data about a town or a street can label places unfairly, and burglary counts need a population or household count to mean anything. The pages stop at state level.