BJS releases NCVS data updates

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2025

New BJS report lays out statistics on nonfatal criminal victimization

BJS has released Criminal Victimization, 2024. This report provides official estimates of nonfatal violent crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property crimes (burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of household theft). It also examines the characteristics of crimes and victims, and whether crimes were reported to police. This is the 52nd report in a series that began in 1973 

Read the Report

Concurrently with the report release, BJS: 

  • updated the NCVS Dashboard (N-DASH), an interactive tool for examining NCVS data by victim, household, and incident characteristics. 

Explore the N-DASH

  • released NCVS Select datasets through the Application Program Interface (API), which includes commonly used variables to support data analysis. 

Access the NCVS API

  • made available public-use data files for download. 

Access the 2024 NCVS Dataset

Access the 1992-2024 NCVS Datasets

Criminal Victimization, 2024 (NCJ 310547) was written by BJS Statisticians Susannah N. Tapp, PhD, and Emilie J. Coen, DrPH. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS’s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov. 


The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States.

For more information on BJS, including announcements, publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities, visit bjs.ojp.gov.


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