States With the Highest Burglary Rates (FBI Data)

The 10 states with the highest burglary rates (2025)

These figures come from the FBI's estimated crime dataset (estimated_crimes_1979_2025.csv), published through the Crime Data Explorer and updated with 2025 data in August 2026. Treat every 2025 figure on this page as provisional: it is the newest release, and FBI crime figures move in later updates as agencies submit corrected and late data. Rates are burglaries per 100,000 residents, calculated from the FBI's estimated burglary counts and state population figures in the same file.

For context, the United States recorded an estimated 661,800 burglaries in 2025, a rate of 193.6 per 100,000 people. That means the top five states all run at roughly 1.6x to 2.1x the national rate.

New Mexico has held a position at or near the top for years. In 2024 its rate was 511.7 per 100,000, so its 2025 figure actually represents a meaningful year-over-year improvement, mirroring a national decline in burglary (the US rate fell from 231.0 in 2024 to 193.6 in 2025).

Full state table, highest to lowest

All 50 states plus the District of Columbia, 2025 FBI estimates:

*The FBI notes that limited 2025 data were available for Florida and North Dakota, so treat those two rows with extra caution. The District of Columbia figure includes offenses reported by the Metro Transit Police and the DC Fire and EMS Arson Investigation Unit.

A clear regional pattern shows up: the Southwest, the South, and the Pacific Northwest dominate the top of the table, while New England occupies five of the seven lowest spots.

How to read these numbers

Three caveats matter before you draw conclusions from a state ranking.

First, the 2025 numbers are provisional. They are the newest FBI release and will move as agencies file corrected and late data, so a two-place difference between adjacent states in this table is not a real difference.

Second, these are estimates. The FBI's estimated crimes dataset fills gaps for agencies that did not report a full year of data, using the FBI's standard estimation procedures. Since the 2021 transition to NIBRS (the FBI's incident-based reporting system), participation has recovered, but estimation still smooths over agencies that report partial years.

Third, a state rate is an average across wildly different places. New Mexico's 404.9 blends Albuquerque with small rural towns that see very different burglary levels. Your own risk depends far more on your city, your block, and your home's specific vulnerabilities than on your state's rank. For city-level context, the same FBI data system publishes agency-level counts, which we cover in a companion piece on city burglary rates.

It is also worth holding the trend in mind: burglary has been falling for decades. The national rate was 1,684.1 per 100,000 in 1980, 728.8 in 2000, and 193.6 in 2025. Even the highest-rate state today (New Mexico at 404.9) sits far below the national average of the 1980s and 1990s.

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