What does the FBI Crime Data Explorer show about violent crime rates by age group (18-24, 25-34) in 2022-2023?
Executive summary
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE) is the repository for the Uniform Crime Reporting program’s statistics, and FBI releases for 2022–2023 show national violent crime edged down overall in that period, but the specific per‑100,000 violent‑crime rates broken out for the adult age groups 18–24 and 25–34 are not present in the supplied reporting snippets — the public summaries emphasize overall trends and methodological notes rather than ready‑made age‑group rate figures [1] [2] [3]. Analysts caution that age‑specific national rate estimates require careful weighting and complete reporting; independent researchers and the FBI use different estimation programs (NIBRS, weighted arrest series), so the CDE’s raw tables and the public press releases must be interpreted with methodologic care [4] [5].
1. What the FBI publicly reported for 2022–2023: overall violent crime moved down
The FBI’s national summaries state that estimated violent crime decreased in 2022 compared with 2021 and decreased again in 2023 compared with 2022 — the agency’s 2023 release reports a 3.0% estimated decline in national violent crime for 2023 versus 2022, and the 2022 release reported a 1.7% estimated decrease for 2022 versus 2021 — these are the headline CDE/UCR findings in the supplied material [1] [2].
2. What the CDE can contain — and what the supplied reporting does not show
The Crime Data Explorer hosts detailed breakdowns (offense types, locations, and demographic breakdowns are available in the system), but the supplied CDE link and press releases in this packet do not include explicit per‑100,000 violent‑crime rate figures for the two adult age bands 18–24 and 25–34 for 2022–2023 that can be cited here [3] [1]. Independent analyses that produce age‑specific national rates typically rely on weighted arrest estimates or NIBRS estimation programs rather than the raw reported counts, and those methods are spelled out in sources like the Council on Criminal Justice methodology notes [4].
3. Arrest and age context the reporting does provide
Historical FBI tables and program notes make clear that adults account for the vast majority of violent‑crime arrests and that age is an important variable in arrest distributions: older FBI tables cite that adults comprised over 90% of persons arrested for violent crimes in earlier years (Table 38), and other FBI reporting shows breakdowns for juvenile versus adult arrests — material in this packet establishes that age is tracked in arrest tables even as national‑rate estimation remains methodologically complex [6] [7].
4. Why exact 18–24 and 25–34 rates are hard to extract from these releases
Producing national violent‑crime rates by narrow adult age bands requires consistent population denominators and either complete reporting or statistical weighting to correct for non‑reporting agencies; the Council on Criminal Justice explains that post‑2020 population denominators and agency non‑reporting complicate continuity and that not all FBI tables are adjusted for non‑reporting agencies, producing undercounts if used raw [4]. Statista and other summaries also flag the FBI’s transition to new reporting systems and voluntary submission as a reason to treat recent year comparisons cautiously [8].
5. What independent analysts say about age, risk and trend interpretation
Third‑party research and summaries (for example Pew and Brennan Center analyses) emphasize long‑term declines in violent crime since the 1990s and note demographic features — younger males and certain racial groups appear disproportionately among perceived offenders in surveys and arrest distributions — but those discussions stop short of giving the precise 18–24 vs. 25–34 national violent‑crime rates for 2022–2023 in the documents provided here [9] [10].
6. Bottom line and how to get the exact numbers
Based on the supplied FBI press releases and methodology notes, the national violent crime rate declined modestly from 2022 to 2023 [1] [2], the CDE contains the detailed breakdowns that can produce age‑band rates, and producing authoritative per‑100,000 rates for 18–24 and 25–34 requires querying the CDE’s detailed tables or the FBI’s NIBRS/weighted arrest estimations directly and accounting for reporting completeness and population denominators [3] [4] [5]. The materials provided do not include direct numeric violent‑crime rates by those two age groups for 2022–2023; that absence limits any definitive numeric answer here [3].