US Crime Counts

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Description

This dataset contains counts of crimes reported by type. Data is available at the nation, state, MSA, and county levels. Data is available back to 2001.

When requesting an MSA code as the area constraint in a query, the code must be prepended by MSA (e.g. for MSA code 10540, use 'MSA10540').

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

• What county had the most murders in 2005?
• What counties in the US have more violent crime than property crime?
• Has the number of robberies in New York been increasing or decreasing over the last 5 years?

Metrics

• Violent Crimes: The number of violent crimes reported
• Property Crimes: The number of property crimes reported
• Murders: The number of murders reported
• ForcibleRapes: The number of forcible rapes reported
• Robberies: The number of robberies reported
• Assaults: The number of assaults reported
• Burglaries: The number of burglaries reported
• Larcenies: The number of larcenies reported
• MotorVehicleThefts: The number of motor vehicle thefts reported
• Arsons: The number of arsons reported

Filters

• Area (Nation, State, MSA, County)
• Year

Core LMI Metadata