US Counties With the Lowest Homicide Rates
1,144 US counties ranked by homicide rate, from lowest to highest. First are Morris County, NJ (0.658), Rockingham County, NH (0.827) and Davis County, UT (0.922). The middle one of the 1,144 has 6.4.
What this measures
Deaths recorded as homicide per 100,000 people. It comes from death certificates, not police reports. Source: County Health Rankings.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | deaths per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Hampshire | 1.52 |
| 2 | Maine | 1.59 |
| 3 | Vermont | 2.04 |
| 4 | Idaho | 2.19 |
| 5 | Rhode Island | 2.29 |
| 6 | Massachusetts | 2.3 |
| 7 | Utah | 2.49 |
| 8 | Hawaii | 2.72 |
| 9 | Iowa | 2.87 |
| 10 | North Dakota | 2.89 |
| 11 | Minnesota | 2.9 |
| 12 | Nebraska | 3.09 |
| 13 | Connecticut | 3.36 |
| 14 | Wyoming | 3.44 |
| 15 | Oregon | 3.54 |
| 16 | New York | 3.65 |
| 17 | New Jersey | 3.84 |
| 18 | Washington | 3.85 |
| 19 | Montana | 4.37 |
| 20 | South Dakota | 4.56 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 4.57 |
| 22 | Colorado | 5.22 |
| 23 | California | 5.32 |
| 24 | Kansas | 5.65 |
| 25 | West Virginia | 5.85 |
| 26 | Virginia | 5.89 |
| 27 | Florida | 6.37 |
| 28 | Texas | 6.54 |
| 29 | Arizona | 6.66 |
| 30 | Pennsylvania | 6.8 |
| 31 | Michigan | 6.88 |
| 32 | Delaware | 7.05 |
| 33 | Nevada | 7.1 |
| 34 | Ohio | 7.2 |
| 35 | Kentucky | 7.23 |
| 36 | North Carolina | 7.56 |
| 37 | Indiana | 7.76 |
| 38 | Oklahoma | 7.96 |
| 39 | Alaska | 8.64 |
| 40 | Georgia | 9.08 |
| 41 | Illinois | 9.36 |
| 42 | Tennessee | 9.59 |
| 43 | Arkansas | 9.93 |
| 44 | Maryland | 9.97 |
| 45 | South Carolina | 10.4 |
| 46 | New Mexico | 10.8 |
| 47 | Missouri | 11 |
| 48 | Alabama | 12.7 |
| 49 | Louisiana | 15.9 |
| 50 | Mississippi | 16 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 23 |
More on homicide rate
- US Counties With the Highest Homicide Rates
- Homicide rate by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.