Public safety
Property crime rate by president
Burglaries, larcenies and motor vehicle thefts reported to police, per 100,000 people (FBI national estimates). Estimates from 2021 on are based on the FBI's new incident-based system (NIBRS) and aren't strictly comparable with earlier years.
1,535 per 100k latest, 2025
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, via Crime Data Explorer. Annual data, fetched Oct 19, 2026.
Since 1980, the property crime rate ranged from 1,535 per 100k in 2025 under Donald Trump (2nd term) to 5,353 per 100k in 1980 under Jimmy Carter. Of the 7 completed terms with data, the property crime rate fell fastest under Bill Clinton, at −161 per 100k/yr against −38 per 100k/yr in the four years before, and slowest under Ronald Reagan, at −37 per 100k/yr. So far under Donald Trump (2nd term), it has gone from 1,761 per 100k in 2024 to 1,535 per 100k in 2025.
By presidential term
Property crime rate, term by term: every term lined up from inauguration on one chart.
Value at the last full period before inauguration and at the end of the term, with the yearly rate of change. The second column is the rate of change over the four years before the term: the trend they inherited. Remember the lag: a term's first year mostly reflects the previous one's policies.
| President | During term | 4 years before |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Trump (2nd term) 2025–now | 1,761 per 100k → 1,535 per 100k −226 per 100k/yr · through 2025 | −49 per 100k/yr |
| Joe Biden 2021–2025 | 1,958 per 100k → 1,761 per 100k −49 per 100k/yr | −123 per 100k/yr |
| Donald Trump (1st term) 2017–2021 | 2,452 per 100k → 1,958 per 100k −123 per 100k/yr | −104 per 100k/yr |
| Barack Obama 2009–2017 | 3,215 per 100k → 2,452 per 100k −95 per 100k/yr | −75 per 100k/yr |
| George W. Bush 2001–2009 | 3,618 per 100k → 3,215 per 100k −50 per 100k/yr | −208 per 100k/yr |
| Bill Clinton 1993–2001 | 4,904 per 100k → 3,618 per 100k −161 per 100k/yr | −38 per 100k/yr |
| George H. W. Bush 1989–1993 | 5,054 per 100k → 4,904 per 100k −38 per 100k/yr | +139 per 100k/yr |
| Ronald Reagan 1981–1989 | 5,353 per 100k → 5,054 per 100k −37 per 100k/yr | — |
| Jimmy Carter 1977–1981 | no data | no data |
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Events that bear on this indicator
- Sep 13, 1994 LawViolent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. The 1994 crime bill: funding for 100,000 police officers and new prisons, tougher sentencing, and a 10-year federal assault weapons ban.