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The trend of crime in the US from 2020 to 2025, including the surge during the pandemic and subsequent decline.
Nationwide, the weight of recent government and research data points to crime declining from the pandemic-era surge: violent crime and homicides rose sharply in 2020–2021, then fell in 2022 and again ...
Measured per capita, most official indicators show that violent and property crime rose from the 1960s into the 1970s and peaked later, then fell sharply from the 1990s into the 2010s; by 2024–2025 ma...
Since 2017 the has shown two durable patterns: large urban areas consistently record higher violent- and property‑victimization rates than suburban or , and the post‑pandemic years saw sharper upticks...