540,614 burglaries were by unlawful entry

or 190.4/100,000 people C

893,999 burglaries were by forcible entry

or 314.9/100,000 people

vs

Burglary, 

Theft, 

Robbery

Burglary, theft, and robbery all involve the 

loss of valuable items: BURGLARY, a 

property crime, is a theft from an unoccupied 

dwelling or structure. LARCENY THEFT

(or simply, “theft”) occurs when someone 

unlawfully takes property, by stealth and 

without force. ROBBERY is considered 

a violent crime—regardless of the use 

of force or presence of a weapon—and 

occurs when the victim is present during 

a theft or attempted theft.A Since 2005, 

the overall property crime rate (household 

burglaries, motor vehicle thefts, and thefts) 

has declined 26%.E Total losses to victims 

from property crimes, while hard to pinpoint, 

amount to billions of dollars every year.C

NOTES: *Property crimes also include arson, 

for which data is erratic. Data for 2014 unless 

otherwise indicated. Hover for data hyperlinks to 

source material.

Property Crime Burglary

> Burglary rate declined by 11.1%

from 2013-2014, to 534.5 incidents/100,000 

people C

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Only 37% of property crimes are reported to police: E

> 83.3% of motor vehicle 

thefts 

> 60% of burglaries

> 29% of larceny-thefts

> Property crime rate declined by 5.0% from 

2013-2014, to 2,596.1/100,000 people:

it declined by 11.9% from 2010-2014 C

> Property crime losses total an estimated $14.3 billion C

7,578,653 reported property crimes*C

> 70.6% larceny-thefts

> 20.8% burglaries

> 8.5% motor vehicle thefts

1,107,564 reported violent crimes

vs Location: C

Non-residential (26.8%)

Residential (73.2%)

Night

Day

Unknown Unknown

Night

Day

1,532,127

reported

burglaries

Night (11.0%)

Day (9.8%)

Unknown (6.0%)

Night (20.4%)

Day (39.1%)

Unknown (13.7%)
Firearms (38.4%)

Strong-arm tactics (41.0%)

Knives or similar (7.5%)

Other weapons (8.4%)

Weapon: Type of Theft: C C

37.7 40.1 nonstranger

53.6

stranger

56.8

Percentage of robberies by victim sex and 

relationship to offender, where knownB

Men

Women

SOURCES

A Bureau of Justice Statistics, Property Crime, http://

www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=32

B ---Number of Robberies by Sex and Victim-Offender 

Relationship, 2014, NCVS Victimization Analysis 

Tool, http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=nvat

C Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United 

States, 2014, (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of 

Justice, 2015), https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/

ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014

D ---Summary Reporting System User Manual, https://

www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/nibrs/summaryreporting-system-srs-user-manual

E Jennifer L. Truman and Lynn Langton, Criminal 

Victimization, 2014, (Washington, DC: Bureau of 

Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 2015), 

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv14.pdf

Theft Robbery

> Robbery rate declined by 6.3% from 2013-2014,

to 104.1/100,000 people C

307,590

reported 

robberies D

Strong-arm tactics refer to the use 

of body parts (hands, arms, feet, fists, 

teeth) as weapons D

> Larceny-theft rate declined by 3.4%

from 2013-2014, to 1,812.0 incidents/100,000 people C

From buildings (12.3%)

Shoplifting (21.5%)

From motor vehicles (22.9%)

Other (31.7%)

Motor-vehicle accessories (7.0%)

Pocket-picking, 

purse-snatching (0.9%)

Bicycles (3.6%)

From motor vehicles (22.9%) 

Shoplifting (21.5%) 

From buildings (12.3%) 

Motor-vehicle accessories (7.0%) 

Bicycles 

Pocket-picking, purse-snatching (0.9%) 

Other (31.7%) 

5,111,544

reported

larceny-thefts

non-metro, 

25,000+

metro, 

100,000+

metro, 

25,000-99,999

Crime rates by county population/100,000 people C

839.5

964.3

1261.3

441.1 442.8 450.8

23.1 12.7

64.8

Robbery

Burglary

Larceny-theft