# US property crime rate by president, 1980–2025

Source page: https://govargus.com/indicators/property-crime

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.

Latest: 1,535 per 100k (2025).
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, via Crime Data Explorer (https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/downloads). 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

Each row is the value at the last full period before inauguration and at the end of the term, with the yearly rate of change, next to the rate of change over the four years before the term (the trend it inherited). A term's first year mostly reflects the previous administration's policies, and Congress, the Federal Reserve and the world economy move these numbers too. Govargus describes; it does not score presidents.

| President | Term | During term | 4 years before |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donald Trump (2nd term) | 2025–present | 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 |

## Events that bear on this indicator

- Sep 13, 1994, law: Violent 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.