U.S. suburban areas - crime clearance rate, by type 2020

In 2020, around 34.4 percent of all known rape offenses in suburban areas in the United States were cleared by arrest or by exceptional means. For murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, about 60.7 percent of all known cases in suburban areas were cleared by arrest or exceptional means.

Crime clearance rate in suburban areas in the United States in 2020, by type

Characteristic	Percent of offenses cleared by arrest
Murder and nonnegligent, manslaughter	60.7%
Aggravated assault	55.3%
Violent crime	50.1%
Robbery	35.7%
Rape	34.4%
Arson	24.2%
Larceny-theft	18.2%
Property crime	17.5%
Burglary	15.9%
Motor vehicle theft	15.1%

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September 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

Figures shown for rape only include those reported by law enforcement agencies using the revised Uniform Crime Reporting definition of rape.

Not all agencies submit reports for arson to the FBI. As a result, the number of reports the FBI uses to compute the percent of offenses cleared for arson is less than the number it uses to compute the percent of offenses cleared for all other offenses.

Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area. Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city.

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