Which States Have the Highest, Lowest Car Theft Rates?
February 16, 2016
CARS.COM – Crime overall has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, and generally proceeds to slide. But according to the latest national crime figures from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report released last month, the very first half of two thousand fifteen shows an increase in car thefts.
Compared with January through June of the previous year, motor vehicle thefts are up by one percent. That’s despite property crimes in all other categories of the UCR – calculated from local and regional crime stats submitted to the FBI by thousands of law-enforcement agencies across the nation – continuing to drop. Burglary was down almost ten percent and larceny theft by more than three percent versus the same period a year earlier.
While all categories of violent crime also eyed a surprising uptick, a surge in car theft wasn’t unexpected by everyone. The crime-stats crunchers at the Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau previously projected an increase in auto theft of as much as nine percent for the very first half of 2015. The NICB said antitheft technologies that had been keeping car thieves at bay in latest years have led criminals to become cleverer in their efforts, increasingly focusing, for example, on rental-fleet scams and falsified titles.
Moreover, motor vehicle theft over the past decade has not fallen off as precipitously as others of its ilk. Property crimes over the past ten years dipped by about nineteen percent, while auto theft went down less than two percent.
Still, it is possible that the trend could switch sides; the figures from the very first six months of last year still are preliminary and subject to switch. As of two thousand fourteen – the most latest total year of available data – auto theft was still on the downslope across the nation.
Based on each state’s number of incidents per 100,000 residents, as calculated by the FBI’s annual report for 2014, the states (including the District of Columbia) with the highest auto-theft rates are:
Ten. Georgia; 26,854 thefts; 266.0 thefts per 100,000 residents
9. South Carolina; 12,902 thefts; 267.0
Five. Fresh Mexico; 6,290 thefts; 301.6
Three. California; 151,852 thefts; 391.Three
Two. Washington; 30,647 thefts; 434.0
1. District of Columbia; Three,783 thefts; 574.1
The states with the lowest auto-theft rates are:
Ten. South Dakota; 1,007 thefts; 118.0
8. West Virginia; 1,896 thefts; 102.Five
7. Pennsylvania; 13,040 thefts; 102.0
Three. Fresh Hampshire; eight hundred fifty seven thefts; 64.6
Which States Have the Highest, Lowest Car Theft Rates? News
Which States Have the Highest, Lowest Car Theft Rates?
February 16, 2016
CARS.COM – Crime overall has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, and generally proceeds to slide. But according to the latest national crime figures from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report released last month, the very first half of two thousand fifteen shows an increase in car thefts.
Compared with January through June of the previous year, motor vehicle thefts are up by one percent. That’s despite property crimes in all other categories of the UCR – calculated from local and regional crime stats submitted to the FBI by thousands of law-enforcement agencies across the nation – continuing to drop. Burglary was down almost ten percent and larceny theft by more than three percent versus the same period a year earlier.
While all categories of violent crime also witnessed a surprising uptick, a surge in car theft wasn’t unexpected by everyone. The crime-stats crunchers at the Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau previously projected an increase in auto theft of as much as nine percent for the very first half of 2015. The NICB said antitheft technologies that had been keeping car thieves at bay in latest years have led criminals to become cleverer in their efforts, increasingly focusing, for example, on rental-fleet scams and falsified titles.
Moreover, motor vehicle theft over the past decade has not fallen off as precipitously as others of its ilk. Property crimes over the past ten years dipped by about nineteen percent, while auto theft went down less than two percent.
Still, it is possible that the trend could switch roles; the figures from the very first six months of last year still are preliminary and subject to switch. As of two thousand fourteen – the most latest total year of available data – auto theft was still on the downslope across the nation.
Based on each state’s number of incidents per 100,000 residents, as calculated by the FBI’s annual report for 2014, the states (including the District of Columbia) with the highest auto-theft rates are:
Ten. Georgia; 26,854 thefts; 266.0 thefts per 100,000 residents
9. South Carolina; 12,902 thefts; 267.0
Five. Fresh Mexico; 6,290 thefts; 301.6
Three. California; 151,852 thefts; 391.Three
Two. Washington; 30,647 thefts; 434.0
1. District of Columbia; Three,783 thefts; 574.1
The states with the lowest auto-theft rates are:
Ten. South Dakota; 1,007 thefts; 118.0
8. West Virginia; 1,896 thefts; 102.Five
7. Pennsylvania; 13,040 thefts; 102.0
Trio. Fresh Hampshire; eight hundred fifty seven thefts; 64.6