Metropolitan areas with the highest rape rate in the U.S. 2023

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 18, 2024

In 2023, Anchorage, Alaska had the highest rape rate in the United States with 144.6 offenses of rape per 100,000 inhabitants. The St. Joseph metropolitan statistical area, in Missouri and Kansas, had the second-highest rape rate in the country, at 141.4 offenses per 100,000 of the population.

Metropolitan areas with the highest rape rate in the United States in 2023

Metropolitan statistical areaRate per 100,000 population
Anchorage, AK 144.6
St. Joseph, MO-KS 141.4
Rapid City, SD 116.5
Farmington, NM 107.4
Lawton, OK 100.3
Battle Creek, MI 99.9
Jonesboro, AR 97.6
Dubuque, IA 88.4
Colorado Springs, CO 86.3
Enid, OK 86
New Orleans-Metairie, LA 84.2
Pueblo, CO 83.9
Chico, CA 83.7
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September 2024

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United States

Survey time period

2023

Supplementary notes

The source only includes data for metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Limited data was available for Florida in 2023.

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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