A preliminary survey released on Oct. 26 showed that levels of violent crime across the United States dropped around 25 percent in 2025 from the previous year.
The report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey program within the Department of Justice (DOJ) shows that non-fatal violent crime, excluding simple assault, dropped across the United States by 25 percent from 2024 to 2025.
The crime rate stood at 9.9 percent per 1,000 people aged 12 and older in 2024, and decreased to 7.4 per 1,000 people in 2025, it said.
The DOJ defines “violent crime excluding simple assault” as crimes such as sexual assault or rape, aggravated assault, and robbery.
Aggravated assaults dropped by 31 percent from 4.5 per 1,000 people to 3.1 per 1,000 people in the same time period. Trespassing and burglary were both down by 25 percent, car theft by 30 percent, and other types of household theft dropped by 19 percent from 2024 to 2025, it said….