The State of States Publishing Crime Data -- 2025 Edition
A primer on the state of State UCR program data.
The last few years have seen a boon for crime data being reported much faster than ever before at a state level. The number of states publishing data for the current year has never been higher, and as such I figured I’d put together a guide of which states publish the most up to date crime data.
Federal crime data remains mostly a mess, but state crime data provides a clear window into our current trends.
I published a similar list a year ago but there have been advances so I thought I’d update it to show which states are doing better. Also I made a map. Bolded agencies are newly added to the category. Let’s dig into the state UCR landscape!
Current Data
These states have all published 2025 data with minimal delay in releasing agency data. Not every agency participates in a timely fashion, but on the whole these states make data access easy. Most of the states use either Beyond 20/20 or Optimum Technology as their Records Management System while Michigan, Maryland, and Minnesota publish their own data.
Notably, Michigan added a great new dashboard in the last few months which is updated quarterly.
Mostly Current Data But It’s Inconsistent Or Challenging To Access
These states have data for 2024 and 2025, but the data is either difficult to access (Florida, North Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma), largely incomplete (Mississippi), isn’t updated to 2024 just yet (Montana and Ohio), or does come up to 2025 but it’s updated inconsistently with many missing agencies (Utah).
Mostly Matching the FBI’s Schedule
Some of these states will publish 2024 data before the FBI’s UCR data comes out in October but none have current year data. These states largely matches what is available through the FBI though some states have additional elements of crime data available. There is a wide variety of accessibility with some states having fully searchable data (like Iowa and Massachusetts) and others publishing more limited PDFs.
New Jersey (edit: moved here after realizing they published 2023)
Heavily Delayed
Data isn’t even available through 2023 yet.
At Least They Have A Website
Come on!
C'mon Indiana!
This is really helpful info. Thanks Jeff!