Esri uses crime risk data provided by Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) to create a Crime Indexes advanced demographics dataset for the United States.
Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) is a leading supplier of demographic and marketing databases. The Crime Indexes dataset provides insight about the relative risk of specific crime types in the United States. The dataset is not a database of actual crimes, but can be used to perform risk analysis of specific crime types for a region compared to the United States as a whole. Crime indexes include broad categories of personal and property crime.
Vintage
Crime indexes data is available for:
- 2024A (in 2020 Census geography).
- 2023B (in 2020 Census geography).
- 2023A (in 2020 Census geography).
Available geographies
Update frequency
Annually.
Attribute summaries
The following table contains a summary description of the primary attributes in the Crime Indexes dataset. See Crime Indexes for more information about this advanced demographics dataset, such as use cases and related documents.
| Attribute | Definition |
|---|---|
Total Crime Index | The Total Crime Index provides an assessment of the relative risk of seven major crime types in the geographic area for the current year: assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, murder, rape, and robbery. It is modeled using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and AGS. |
Personal Crime Index | The Personal Crime Index provides an assessment of four major crime types in the geographic area for the current year: murder, rape, robbery, and assault. It is modeled using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and AGS. |
Property Crime Index | The Property Crime Index provides an assessment of the relative risk of three major crime types in the in the geographic area for the current year: burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. It is modeled using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and AGS. |