Identity theft reports in the United States

America's crime record

1,135,291

reports, 2024 · Up 9.5% from 2023

Timeline

Identity theft reports people filed with the FTC and its partners.

Source and method

These are complaints, not crimes found by police.

No rate. A report counts the people who chose to file, not the people whose identity was stolen.

FTC Consumer Sentinel · Calendar year · 2001 to 2024

Breakdown

All 1,135,291 reports in 2024; 161,573 did not answer and are their own row, so every share is of the full total.

FTC Consumer Sentinel

Every figure as a table

No rate. A report counts the people who chose to file, not the people whose identity was stolen.

FTC Consumer Sentinel · Calendar year

All 1,135,291 reports in 2024; 161,573 did not answer and are their own row, so every share is of the full total.

FTC Consumer Sentinel

How we count

Age: Age at the offense, in the same bands on every page.
Sex: Biological sex: female or male.
Race and ethnicity: Six groups, the same on every page. Hispanic is of any race; the other five are not Hispanic, so no one is in two.
Relationship: The victim's relationship to the offender, as police recorded it.
Counting once: Each person counts once in each row they fit, so rows can add up to more than the total.
Unknowns: Unknown is always its own row, and every share reads against everyone.
Small counts: Every count is shown, however small.
Marks on figures: When a figure is missing, the page says why.
Rates: Pages call it the rate: how many for every 100,000 people, or every million for rare events. It always sits beside its count, never in place of it.
Who reports: Police figures count only the agencies that sent records to the FBI.