U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest rape rate 2020

In 2020, Anchorage, Alaska had the highest rape rate in the United States with 186.7 offences of rape per 100,000 inhabitants. Rapid City, South Dakota had the second highest rape rate in the country, at 146.6 offences per 100,000 of the population.

Metropolitan areas with the highest rape rate in the United States in 2020

Metropolitan statistical area	Rate per 100,000 population
Anchorage, AK	186.7
Rapid City, SD	146.6
Pueblo, CO	118.2
St. Joseph, MO-KS	114.5
Carson City, NV	110.2
Jackson, MI	107.7
Farmington, NM	98.7
Jonesboro, AR	97.5
Danville, IL	93.7
Casper, WY	88.1
Bay City, MI	88
Reno, NV	85.8
Niles, MI	85.2
Abilene, TX	82.5
Gainesville, FL	81.9
Fairbanks, AK	79
Grand Island, NE	78.2
Lubbock, TX	77.6
Hot Springs, AR	77.2
Colorado Springs, CO	76.8
Glens Falls, NY	76.7
Fort Smith, AR-OK	75.8
Battle Creek, MI	75.7
Saginaw, MI	74.6
New Orleans-Metairie, LA	72.5
Lansing-East Lansing, MI	70
Fargo, ND	69.3
Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI	68.8
College Station-Bryan, TX	67.9
Great Falls, MT	67.5
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	67.5
Lawton, OK	67.5
Watertown-Fort Drum, NY	67.3
Salt Lake City, UT	67
Tallahassee, FL	66
Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	65.8
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	65.8
San Angelo, TX	65.2
Springfield, IL	65.2
Flint, MI	64.6
Corpus Christi, TX	64.6
Odessa, TX	64.4
Columbia, MO	63.8
Pine Bluff, AR	63.6
Missoula, MT	63.6
Dubuque, IA	63.6
Amarillo, TX	63.2
Ann Arbor, MI	63.2
Parkersburg-Vienna, WV	63
Wichita Falls, TX	63

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September 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

* The source only includes data for metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) where at least 75 percent of the agencies within the MSA reported data and for which the principal city/cities submitted 12 months of complete data for 2019. Accordingly, the following large MSAs are not included: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, Denver, St Louis, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Indianapolis.

Rates are the number of reported offenses per 100,000 of the population.

Rape, as defined in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, is the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. (This includes the offenses of rape, sodomy, and sexual assault with an object as converted from data submitted via the National Incident-Based Reporting System.)

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