On average, a burglary occurs in the US every 13 seconds according to house burglary statistics. Using this data, there are about 1.4 million home burglary cases in a year. What’s more alarming is the high tendency to repeat burglary. 1 out of every 3 house burglary victims can be a victim again. Within a month, nearly half of home burglary victims are burglarized a second time.