🔍 FBI Crime Data Scraper - US State Crime Statistics

🚀 Export annual US crime statistics by state in seconds. Pull violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft counts for all 50 states and territories across any year range from 1985 to 2022. No API key, no registration.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-21 · 📊 13 fields per record · 🗺️ 58 states and territories · 📅 1985-2022 · 🔓 100% public data

The FBI Crime Data Scraper pulls structured crime statistics from the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), the official public portal for Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data. It returns 13 fields per record including violent crime totals, nine individual offense categories, and metadata timestamps. The underlying data is published by the FBI's UCR Program and compiled from law enforcement agencies across the United States.

The dataset covers all 50 states plus DC and US territories across 38 years of reporting, giving analysts, researchers, policy teams, and journalists a clean, queryable alternative to raw FBI tables. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Policy analysts, criminologists, journalists, data scientists, civic tech teams, law enforcement researchers, urban planners	Crime trend analysis, state comparisons, policy evaluation, academic research, dashboard building, journalism

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📋 What the FBI Crime Data Scraper does

Five data collection workflows in a single run:

• 🗺️ All-states export. Every state and territory across your selected year range.
• 🏛️ State filter. Restrict to one state using its two-letter abbreviation (CA, TX, NY, etc.).
• 📅 Year range. Collect any span from 1985 to 2022.
• 📊 Nine offense types. Violent crime total, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime total, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft.
• 💾 Annual aggregates. Monthly FBI data summed to clean annual counts per state.

💡 Why it matters: the FBI publishes crime data as multi-tab Excel files and interactive charts. Turning those into a structured dataset requires parsing dozens of pages, writing state-by-state scrapers, and handling the FBI's format changes across decades. This Actor delivers the same data in clean JSON in under a minute.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.
fromYear	integer	2015	Start year for crime data. Range: 1985-2024.
toYear	integer	2022	End year for crime data. Range: 1985-2024.
stateAbbr	string	""	Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. CA). Leave blank for all states.

Example: All crime data for California from 2015 to 2022.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "fromYear": 2015,
    "toYear": 2022,
    "stateAbbr": "CA"
}

Example: National crime data across all states, 2020 only.

{
    "maxItems": 1000,
    "fromYear": 2020,
    "toYear": 2020
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the FBI transitioned from Summary Reporting System (SRS) to NIBRS between 2015 and 2022. Some state totals for 2021 may appear lower than adjacent years because agencies were mid-transition and submitted partial data. This is expected behavior - it reflects the actual submitted counts, not a scraper error.

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📊 Output

Each record contains 13 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏛️ state	string	"CA"
📍 stateName	string	"California"
📅 year	integer	2022
⚔️ violentCrime	integer	173941
🔫 murder	integer	2235
🔴 rape	integer	13441
💰 robbery	integer	44693
👊 aggravatedAssault	integer	113572
🏠 propertyCrime	integer	853161
🚪 burglary	integer	145418
👜 larcenyTheft	integer	527896
🚗 motorVehicleTheft	integer	168086
👥 population	integer|null	null
🕒 scrapedAt	string	"2026-05-21T23:52:33.743Z"
❌ error	string|null	null

Note on population: the FBI Crime Data Explorer API does not expose per-state annual population counts. The population field is included in the schema for forward compatibility but is always null.

📋 Sample Records

[
  {
    "state": "CA",
    "stateName": "California",
    "year": 2022,
    "violentCrime": 193099,
    "murder": 2361,
    "rape": 15055,
    "robbery": 48649,
    "aggravatedAssault": 127034,
    "propertyCrime": 945750,
    "burglary": 149568,
    "larcenyTheft": 601213,
    "motorVehicleTheft": 185052,
    "population": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T23:52:33.743Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "state": "TX",
    "stateName": "Texas",
    "year": 2022,
    "violentCrime": 121454,
    "murder": 1956,
    "rape": 14982,
    "robbery": 23045,
    "aggravatedAssault": 81471,
    "propertyCrime": 569481,
    "burglary": 87219,
    "larcenyTheft": 431874,
    "motorVehicleTheft": 49488,
    "population": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T23:52:33.743Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "state": "AK",
    "stateName": "Alaska",
    "year": 2019,
    "violentCrime": 6347,
    "murder": 73,
    "rape": 1099,
    "robbery": 826,
    "aggravatedAssault": 4349,
    "propertyCrime": 21473,
    "burglary": 3558,
    "larcenyTheft": 15095,
    "motorVehicleTheft": 2612,
    "population": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T23:52:33.743Z",
    "error": null
  }
]

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✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	This Actor
🔓 No API key required	Public CDE endpoint, no registration
📅 38 years of history	1985 through 2022
🗺️ All 58 states and territories	50 states + DC + US territories
📊 9 offense types	Violent, property, plus 7 individual categories
💾 Clean annual aggregates	Monthly FBI data summed per year
⚡ Fast execution	All states in under 2 minutes
📥 Multiple export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML via Apify datasets

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Effort	Freshness	Structured Output
This Actor	Zero - click Start	Runs on demand	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML
FBI UCR tables (Excel)	High - parse 30+ files per year	Manual download	Raw Excel only
FBI CDE website	Medium - interactive charts only	Real-time	No direct export
Kaggle datasets	Zero - pre-built	Stale (2019-2021)	CSV only
Custom scraper	Very high - reverse-engineer CDE API	On demand	Custom

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in free credits.
2. Open the FBI Crime Data Scraper in the Apify Store.
3. Set your year range (fromYear, toYear) and optionally a stateAbbr filter.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish (under 2 minutes for all states).
5. Click Export Dataset and choose your format: JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Policy Analysis and Research State-by-state crime trend comparisons over 10+ years Before/after analysis of criminal justice policy changes Correlate crime rates with economic indicators or demographics Generate evidence-based policy briefs from clean structured data	📰 Investigative Journalism Local crime stories contextualized against state averages Decade-long trend narratives with exportable chart data Year-over-year comparisons for breaking news context Automated data refreshes for living news dashboards
🏢 Real Estate and Urban Planning Crime trend data enrichment for property risk scores Neighborhood safety comparisons at the state level Market analysis inputs for investment decisions Urban planning reports grounded in FBI data	🤖 AI and Data Science Training datasets for crime prediction models Feature engineering for public-safety ML pipelines Time-series benchmarks across 38 years of consistent data Clean labeled data for regression and classification experiments

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🔌 Automating FBI Crime Data Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Schedule annual refreshes to keep your crime database up to date as the FBI releases new reporting periods.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Criminology studies with reproducible data pulls Public policy papers citing FBI UCR data Longitudinal studies across 38 years of crime reporting Cross-state comparison datasets for graduate research	🎨 Personal and creative Crime data visualizations and interactive maps Portfolio projects for data science and journalism Side projects exploring regional safety trends Content research for true crime podcasts and creators
🤝 Non-profit and civic Community safety advocacy backed by official FBI data Civic journalism exposing crime trends in underserved regions Grant proposal data for public safety non-profits Transparency reporting for local government accountability	🧪 Experimentation Train crime forecasting or anomaly detection models Validate public-safety product hypotheses with 38 years of history Prototype dashboards with full US coverage Benchmark regional crime baselines for research proposals

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

The Actor calls the FBI Crime Data Explorer's internal API, which powers the official CDE website at cde.ucr.cjis.gov. For each state, it fetches monthly crime counts for nine offense categories and aggregates them to annual totals. No browser automation is used.

📅 What years are available?

Data is available from 1985 through 2022, following the FBI's UCR Program reporting timeline. Set fromYear and toYear to any range within those bounds.

🔁 Why are some 2021 values lower than expected?

The FBI was mid-transition from SRS to NIBRS reporting in 2021. Many agencies submitted partial-year data or switched systems mid-year, resulting in lower-than-expected reported counts. This is a known characteristic of the raw FBI data, not a scraper issue.

🗺️ Which states and territories are included?

All 50 US states plus Washington DC, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands, for a total of 58 jurisdictions.

👥 Why is the population field null?

The FBI Crime Data Explorer API does not return per-state annual population figures in its crime summary endpoint. The field is present in the schema for forward compatibility. To calculate crime rates, combine this dataset with a Census population dataset.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor automatically when the FBI releases new annual data.

⚖️ Is this data legal to use?

Yes. The FBI publishes UCR data as public government information without restrictions. This Actor only reads publicly accessible endpoints.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

The free Apify plan gives you 10 records per run (enough to preview the data). A paid plan lifts the limit and enables up to 1,000,000 records per run.

🔁 What happens if a run fails?

Apify automatically retries transient errors. If a run still fails, inspect the log in the Runs tab. Partial results collected before the failure are preserved.

📊 What is the difference between violent crime total and the individual offense counts?

The violent crime total (violentCrime) is the sum of homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault as reported by the FBI. The individual fields break that total into its four components. Property crime (propertyCrime) is similarly the sum of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

🆘 What if I need help?

Our support team is here to help. Contact us through the Apify platform or use the Tally form linked below.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

FBI Crime Data Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step crime data workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe crime data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes and push fresh FBI data into your product backend automatically.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the US Department of Justice. All data is collected from publicly accessible government endpoints. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.