Number of robberies in the U.S. 2021, by weapon

There were 37,899 robberies with a handgun in the United States in 2021. A further 9,702 robberies were perpetrated with a knife or other cutting instrument in that year.

Decreasing crime

As with most crime in the U.S., the number of robberies has decreased since 1990. Despite views that crime is on the rise in the United States, statistics show that the violent crime rate has almost halved in the last 30 years. The number of robberies in the U.S. have more than halved from their peak in 1991.

What you seize is what you get

Despite the classic idea of a bank robbery, robberies are far more likely to take place in the street or on a highway rather than in a bank. Additionally, the robbery rate was highest in the District of Columbia in 2020, and lowest in Idaho. For the entire United States, the robbery rate stood at 73.9 per 100,000 inhabitants in that same year.