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Crime, DUI and drug arrests, county by county

How many violent crimes, property crimes, DUI arrests and other arrests police agencies reported in each county, how that compares per 100,000 residents with the state and the country, and what share of the county's residents the reporting agencies cover. We add up the FBI's own agency-level counts for five calendar years for every state and for 2,981 counties, home to 96.5% of U.S. residents, publish counts and rates only, and check the county rows against the FBI's state totals.

Checked October 28, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice

What is in this dataset?

What police agencies reported to the FBI over the last five complete calendar years, for every state and for 2,981 counties, home to 96.5% of U.S. residents: violent crimes, property crimes, arrests for driving under the influence, all arrests, and, for states, arrests for drug abuse violations. County rows add up the agencies the FBI places in each county (a city police department, a sheriff's office, a campus force; an agency that serves several counties counts in the county of its headquarters); a row says how many agencies there are and what share of the county's residents they cover, because a month an agency did not report is counted as not reported, never as zero, and a year in which no agency of the county reported is not published. Rates are per 100,000 residents of the agencies that did report. State rows are the FBI's own state series; the county rows add up the agency-level answers, which can come to less than the state series where the FBI's state count includes reports its agency-level answers do not return. The United States row is the sum of the states. Only counts are published: no officer, victim, suspect or agency name.

Use it to size criminal-defense and DUI work in the counties a firm serves: how many DUI and drug arrests agencies report there each year, how that compares with violent and property crime, how the rate per 100,000 residents compares with the state and the country, and how complete the reporting is. Look up a state to get every county in it, compare up to ten states, or search for a county by name. These are what agencies reported to the FBI, not all crime: an arrest is not a conviction, and a county with low coverage is understated.

Records
3,078
Look up by
52
state
Primary-source records
3,078

The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.

Where does the data come from?

FBI Crime Data Explorer monthly counts for every agency the FBI lists in the 50 states and DC (violent-crime and property-crime offenses, DUI and all arrests) are summed by calendar year and placed in the county the agency lists, or, for an agency that lists several counties, the listed county that holds its headquarters (Census Bureau geocoder); a month an agency did not report is kept as not reported, and rates use the residents of the agencies that reported. State rows are the FBI's own state series: the county rows never exceed them, and the gap is printed by the release check; the FBI's national rate, scaled to the share of residents covered, is the second check on the total.

Period covered
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2025
Places
The whole US, states and counties
How often we refresh it
Every quarter
Records read
October 28, 2026

Official sources

The sources the records cite most

What does a record look like?

  • United States, 2025: agencies covering 95.7% of residents reported offenses and 93.1% reported arrests. They reported 1,097,449 violent crimes and 5,158,467 property crimes, and 737,264 DUI arrests among 7,202,161 arrests (859,572 for drug abuse violations). 2021-2025: 5,747,500 violent crimes, 28,219,846 property crimes, 3,473,335 DUI arrests. FBI Crime Data Explorer as of 2026-10-15; a month an agency did not report is not counted.

    Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: FBI Crime Data Explorer (summarized and arrest data by agency and state)

  • Texas, 2025: agencies covering 99.3% of residents reported offenses and 99.2% reported arrests. They reported 109,812 violent crimes and 570,196 property crimes, and 61,927 DUI arrests among 588,225 arrests (96,373 for drug abuse violations). 2021-2025: 623,495 violent crimes, 3,232,336 property crimes, 305,928 DUI arrests. FBI Crime Data Explorer as of 2026-10-15; a month an agency did not report is not counted.

    Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: FBI Crime Data Explorer (summarized and arrest data by agency and state)

  • California, 2025: agencies covering 99.9% of residents reported offenses and 79.9% reported arrests. They reported 171,167 violent crimes and 716,870 property crimes, and 102,788 DUI arrests among 694,194 arrests (83,137 for drug abuse violations). 2021-2025: 790,939 violent crimes, 3,487,816 property crimes, 425,993 DUI arrests. FBI Crime Data Explorer as of 2026-10-15; a month an agency did not report is not counted.

    Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: FBI Crime Data Explorer (summarized and arrest data by agency and state)

  • Florida, 2025: agencies covering 81.2% of residents reported offenses and 71.2% reported arrests. They reported 49,291 violent crimes and 213,593 property crimes, and 16,613 DUI arrests among 311,989 arrests (29,411 for drug abuse violations). 2021-2025: 233,516 violent crimes, 1,066,348 property crimes, 64,397 DUI arrests. FBI Crime Data Explorer as of 2026-10-15; a month an agency did not report is not counted.

    Status P · checked October 28, 2026 · source: FBI Crime Data Explorer (summarized and arrest data by agency and state)

The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.

What each of the 29 main columns means
jurisdiction
Two-letter code of the state, or US
level
county (agencies the FBI places in that county), county-not-given (statewide, tribal, transit and other agencies that list no single county; they count in the state total), state (the FBI's own state series) or us (the sum of the states)
county
5-digit county FIPS code (vintage 2025; one Alaska census area carries the former code the FBI agency list still uses); empty for other levels
countyName
County name as the Census Bureau writes it
stateName
State name
year
The latest full calendar year in the record
window
The five calendar years covered
value
DUI arrests reported in the latest year
violent_crimes
Violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) agencies reported in the latest year
property_crimes
Property crimes (burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, arson) agencies reported in the latest year
dui_arrests
Arrests for driving under the influence reported in the latest year (FBI offense id 260)
drug_arrests
Arrests for drug abuse violations (the eleven FBI drug categories, ids 150-160, summed); state records only, empty for counties
all_arrests
All arrests reported in the latest year
violent_per_100k
Violent crimes per 100,000 residents of the agencies that reported
property_per_100k
Property crimes per 100,000 residents of the agencies that reported
dui_per_100k
DUI arrests per 100,000 residents of the agencies that reported
drug_per_100k
Drug arrests per 100,000 residents of the agencies that reported (state records only)
arrests_per_100k
All arrests per 100,000 residents of the agencies that reported
violent_5y
Violent crimes over the years the record lists under years (the five-year window, or the years in which the county's agencies reported)
property_5y
Property crimes over the years the record lists under years (the five-year window, or the years in which the county's agencies reported)
dui_5y
DUI arrests over the years the record lists under years (the five-year window, or the years in which the county's agencies reported)
drug_5y
Drug arrests over the years the record lists under years (the five-year window, or the years in which the county's agencies reported) (state records only)
all_arrests_5y
All arrests over the years the record lists under years (the five-year window, or the years in which the county's agencies reported)
population
Residents the record covers in the latest year: for a county, the larger of its agencies' FBI populations summed and its Census residents (vintage 2025); the state's population for state records
coverage_offenses_pct
Share of those residents whose agencies reported offenses in the latest year, weighted by months reported (for every level, read from the agency answers; a year of zeros in every month from an agency serving 1,000 or more residents counts as not reported)
coverage_arrests_pct
Share of those residents whose agencies reported arrests in the latest year, weighted by months reported (read the same way as the offense coverage)
agencies
Agencies the FBI lists for the place (reporting or not)
years
Per calendar year with reports, in the order of yearFields: violent, property, dui, arrests, drug, coverageOffensesPct, coverageArrestsPct, population
years_reported
How many calendar years of the window the record lists under years

How do I use it in my own tools?

crimedata_lookup
For one two-letter state code, or US: violent and property crimes reported and DUI, drug and all arrests for the state and every county in it, latest year, totals over the years reported and history, per 100,000 residents of the agencies that reported, with how much of the population reported.
crimedata_compare
Crime and arrest records for up to 10 states (two-letter codes) or US side by side: violent crime, property crime, DUI, drug and all arrests, counts and rates, and reporting coverage.
crimedata_search
Records whose text matches the words given, such as a county name ("Harris County"), a state or a 5-digit county FIPS code.

How to cite this dataset

You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.

Version
1.0.0, released October 29, 2026
Every version
10.5281/zenodo.23772521 (always points to the newest)
License
CC BY 4.0

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Suggested citation

Probative. (2026). Crime and arrests by county and state: violent and property crime, DUI and drug arrests (FBI) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23772522

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Source: Probative, Crime and arrests by county and state: violent and property crime, DUI and drug arrests (FBI), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23772522, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Not legal advice. These are counts of crimes and arrests that police agencies reported to the FBI, kept for research and marketing planning. An arrest says an officer took someone into custody, not that a charge was filed or proved. Whether and how to defend a charge, and every deadline, are for the person's own counsel.

What changed recently?

  • 2026-10-28 · FBI Crime Data Explorer violent and property crimes reported, DUI and all arrests by county and state, and drug arrests by state, 2021-2025. (source)

The full log is in changes.json.

What are the limits?

  • These are crimes and arrests agencies reported to the FBI, not all crime. Many offenses are never reported to police, and an arrest is not a charge or a conviction, so a low count can mean little reporting or little enforcement rather than little crime.
  • Reporting is partial. Since the FBI moved to incident-based reporting, many agencies have reported some months and not others. A month an agency did not report is never counted as zero, and each row shows the share of residents whose agencies reported; rates use only the residents of agencies that reported, but a county with low coverage is still understated and should not be ranked against a complete one. A full year of zeros from an agency that serves 1,000 or more residents is treated as not reported too, because the FBI's data return zeros for many months the FBI did not receive.
  • Counties are placed by the county the FBI's agency list gives for each agency. An agency that serves several counties, such as a city that crosses a county line, counts in full in the county that holds its headquarters, so a neighboring county's share of that city is not in its row; the row's coverage shows the share of its residents its own agencies serve. Statewide, tribal and transit agencies that list no single county are in the state's 'county not given' row, so the state total is complete even where the county split is not. New York City's five boroughs are not published as counties: the NYPD reports as one agency for all five, and its counts are in New York's 'county not given' row.
  • A county row counts what its agencies reported, including campus, transit and school police; a sheriff's count and a city police count for the same incident are not combined. A year is published for a county only when at least one of its agencies that serves residents reported that year.
  • Drug arrests are published for states only: the FBI splits them into eleven categories, and reading each one for every agency is not practical. DUI arrests are the FBI's single driving-under-the-influence offense; they leave out the drunkenness and liquor-law arrests listed separately.
  • Violent crime here is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson, as the FBI summarizes them. The FBI itself cautions against ranking places by these figures.
  • Records older than 135 days since their last check are marked stale in the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.

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