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US Counties With the Lowest Robbery Rates

2,290 US counties ranked by robbery rate, from lowest to highest. First are Wakulla County, FL (0), Brantley County, GA (0) and Clay County, GA (0). The middle one of the 2,290 has 8.52.

What this measures

Robberies in the year, per 100,000 residents, from the FBI. A robbery is taking something from a person by force or by threat, such as a mugging. It counts only crimes reported to police or found by them, so crimes nobody reports are missing. For a state, the figure is the FBI's estimate, which fills in for police agencies that did not report. For a county, it is only what the agencies reported, and it is shown only where agencies that reported for all 12 months serve at least 90% of the people who live there. Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program (Crime Data Explorer).

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

RankCountyper 100,000
1Wakulla County, FL0
2Brantley County, GA0
3Clay County, GA0
4Dawson County, GA0
5Elbert County, GA0
6Fannin County, GA0
7Harris County, GA0
8Heard County, GA0
9Lumpkin County, GA0
10Murray County, GA0
11Rabun County, GA0
12Schley County, GA0
13Towns County, GA0
14Twiggs County, GA0
15Union County, GA0
16Webster County, GA0
17White County, GA0
18Adams County, ID0
19Bear Lake County, ID0
20Benewah County, ID0
21Boise County, ID0
22Boundary County, ID0
23Camas County, ID0
24Caribou County, ID0
25Custer County, ID0
26Fremont County, ID0
27Gem County, ID0
28Idaho County, ID0
29Jefferson County, ID0
30Lemhi County, ID0
31Lewis County, ID0
32Lincoln County, ID0
33Madison County, ID0
34Oneida County, ID0
35Owyhee County, ID0
36Payette County, ID0
37Teton County, ID0
38Valley County, ID0
39Washington County, ID0
40Cumberland County, IL0
41De Witt County, IL0
42Hamilton County, IL0
43Jasper County, IL0
44Jersey County, IL0
45Marshall County, IL0
46Mason County, IL0
47Massac County, IL0
48Moultrie County, IL0
49Perry County, IL0
50Pike County, IL0
51Pulaski County, IL0
52Wabash County, IL0
53Warren County, IL0
54Wayne County, IL0
55Dubois County, IN0
56Harrison County, IN0
57Jennings County, IN0
58LaGrange County, IN0
59Perry County, IN0
60Pulaski County, IN0
61Wells County, IN0
62Adair County, IA0
63Adams County, IA0
64Allamakee County, IA0
65Appanoose County, IA0
66Boone County, IA0
67Bremer County, IA0
68Buchanan County, IA0
69Carroll County, IA0
70Cherokee County, IA0
71Clarke County, IA0
72Clay County, IA0
73Clayton County, IA0
74Davis County, IA0
75Emmet County, IA0
76Fayette County, IA0
77Floyd County, IA0
78Franklin County, IA0
79Grundy County, IA0
80Guthrie County, IA0
81Hamilton County, IA0
82Hancock County, IA0
83Ida County, IA0
84Iowa County, IA0
85Jackson County, IA0
86Jones County, IA0
87Keokuk County, IA0
88Kossuth County, IA0
89Lucas County, IA0
90Lyon County, IA0
91Mahaska County, IA0
92Marion County, IA0
93Mills County, IA0
94Monona County, IA0
95O'Brien County, IA0
96Osceola County, IA0
97Page County, IA0
98Palo Alto County, IA0
99Pocahontas County, IA0
100Ringgold County, IA0

Every state, lowest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

RankStateper 100,000
1Idaho9.39
2West Virginia11.4
3Wyoming11.6
4Maine11.7
5Vermont14.6
6New Hampshire16.6
7South Dakota20.6
8Mississippi21.2
9Rhode Island21.9
10Iowa22.3
11Montana24.2
12North Dakota25.1
13Utah25.9
14Nebraska26.4
15Michigan36.9
16Oklahoma37.3
17Kansas37.3
18Massachusetts37.5
19Arkansas37.8
20Virginia38.1
21Kentucky39
22Wisconsin39.6
23South Carolina39.8
24Indiana40.8
25Florida42.5
26Alabama42.8
27Connecticut43.6
28Georgia44.6
29Minnesota48.4
30Hawaii49.6
31Ohio51
32North Carolina51.8
33New Jersey52.1
34Delaware52.4
35Missouri54.2
36Louisiana55.7
37Oregon62.6
38Pennsylvania62.8
39Colorado65.4
40Arizona66.2
41Texas68.6
42Tennessee72.1
43New Mexico72.6
44Nevada75.4
45Alaska77.7
46Washington81.6
47New York105
48Illinois110
49California128
50Maryland131
51District of Columbia607

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