Simple assault and intimidation in the United States

America's crime record

3,075,436

offenses recorded, 2025 · Down 2.0% from 2024

Rate 1,023.6, about 1 in 98 residents

Timeline

👤︎ U.S. residents, Census Bureau.

Simple assaults (no weapon, no serious injury) and intimidation that police recorded in NIBRS, one per victim.

Source and method

The summary system never counted these as offenses, only as arrests ("other assaults").

FBI NIBRS incident records · Calendar year · 2009 to 2025

20212021 is the first year the FBI took only NIBRS reports. Before it, the count is only the agencies that sent NIBRS (26% of people in 2009, 64% in 2020), so it grows as agencies join and is no national total; compare years by the rate. Agencies that sent NIBRS before 2019 mostly police smaller places, and in 2021 their rates ran 8% to 22% above all agencies', so earlier rates read somewhat high.
2022–2025The NIBRS state incident files and the NIBRS national master file hold the same records side by side. CrimeDB uses the NIBRS national master file; the other is kept as a check. The zips are the frozen snapshot the FBI's NIBRS tables were built from, 1% to 5% fewer incidents than the rebuilt master file (2025 equal). They check those tables.
2023Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming come from the NIBRS state incident files, filling a gap in the NIBRS national master file. The 2023 master file stops partway through Wisconsin and has no West Virginia or Wyoming rows, and the FBI has not reissued it (checked 2026-10-08). The normalized NIBRS records take those states' incidents from the zips.

Every figure as a table

Simple assault and intimidation, offenses recorded, by year

Year	Count	Rate
2025	3,075,436	1,024
2024	3,139,032	1,066
2023	3,028,196	1,078
2022	2,651,186	999
2021	2,340,680	960
2020	1,670,373	911
2019	1,454,792	951
2018	1,206,167	1,019
2017	1,088,317	1,014
2016	1,063,122	1,055
2015	1,026,904	1,074
2014	1,003,445	1,086
2013	1,024,262	1,127
2012	1,075,860	1,206
2011	1,060,259	1,243
2010	1,074,934	1,313
2009	1,066,030	1,336

Rate: Offenses per 100,000 people living where the agencies that sent all 12 months of NIBRS police, by the FBI's population for those agencies. An agency that sent part of the year would add all its people but only part of its offenses.

FBI NIBRS incident records · Calendar year

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.

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