“The nation’s violent and property crime rates dropped to a two-decade low in 2024, following the COVID-era surge in homicides, according to new FBI data released this week…

The new FBI numbers released Tuesday also come as preliminary data from the country’s largest cities in 2025 so far suggest violent crime is falling even more and could be heading to modern record lows.

By the numbers: The U.S. had a violent crime rate of 359.1 per 100,000 residents last year, the FBI said.

• That surpassed the lowest violent crime rate the nation has had since 2014, when it was 372.4 per 100,000 residents, and many cities saw 30-year lows, an Axios analysis found.
• The rate was 370.4 in 2021, but that year the FBI collected data using two reporting systems, which makes the year not comparable.
• Meanwhile, the nation’s property crime rate dropped to 1760.1 per 100,000 residents last year.
• That’s also a 20-year low, according to an Axios analysis of FBI numbers.”

From Axios.