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Civilian employees: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Civilian employees. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Law enforcement employees by state (FBI), ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

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Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated
2026-11-03
Download full table CSVSource: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program (opens in a new tab)

National value: 362,989 (United States).

Washington: 5,561Idaho: 2,901Montana: 1,426North Dakota: 711Minnesota: 5,911Michigan: 8,150Ohio: 7,182Pennsylvania: 5,506New York: 19,550Vermont: 405New Hampshire: 936Maine: 740Arizona: 10,274California: 42,251New Mexico: 2,155Texas: 42,358Louisiana: 6,135Mississippi: 2,721Alabama: 5,824Florida: 27,591Georgia: 11,748South Carolina: 3,632North Carolina: 10,343Virginia: 5,066District of Columbia: 876Maryland: 5,520Delaware: 1,177New Jersey: 10,838Connecticut: 1,827Rhode Island: 562Massachusetts: 4,283Oregon: 4,380Utah: 3,390Wyoming: 1,082Nevada: 5,040Colorado: 7,088South Dakota: 1,346Nebraska: 1,743Kansas: 3,101Oklahoma: 4,188Iowa: 3,520Missouri: 5,661Wisconsin: 5,009Illinois: 11,938Kentucky: 2,609Arkansas: 3,864Tennessee: 9,801West Virginia: 759Indiana: 5,287Alaska: 678Hawaii: 746

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 405 to 1,177
  • Group 2: 1,177 to 3,390
  • Group 3: 3,390 to 5,287
  • Group 4: 5,287 to 8,150
  • Highest: 8,150 to 42,358
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Caution against ranking: the FBI warns that rankings based on its Uniform Crime Reporting data “lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions”. Agency participation, reporting practices and local conditions vary, so differences between states partly reflect reporting rather than crime. Source: FBI, Caution Against Ranking (Hate Crime Statistics).

1Texas42,358
2California42,251
3Florida27,591
4New York19,550
5Illinois11,938
6Georgia11,748
7New Jersey10,838
8North Carolina10,343
9Arizona10,274
10Tennessee9,801
11Michigan8,150
12Ohio7,182
13Colorado7,088
14Louisiana6,135
15Minnesota5,911
16Alabama5,824
17Missouri5,661
18Washington5,561
19Maryland5,520
20Pennsylvania5,506
21Indiana5,287
22Virginia5,066
23Nevada5,040
24Wisconsin5,009
25Oregon4,380
26Massachusetts4,283
27Oklahoma4,188
28Arkansas3,864
29South Carolina3,632
30Iowa3,520
31Utah3,390
32Kansas3,101
33Idaho2,901
34Mississippi2,721
35Kentucky2,609
36New Mexico2,155
37Connecticut1,827
38Nebraska1,743
39Montana1,426
40South Dakota1,346
41Delaware1,177
42Wyoming1,082
43New Hampshire936
44District of Columbia876
45West Virginia759
46Hawaii746
47Maine740
48North Dakota711
49Alaska678
50Rhode Island562
51Vermont405

Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer API: Law Enforcement Employees (police employee data, LEOKA program), 2024 (retrieved 2026-11-03). Reference period: 2024.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by civilian employees (2024). Data: FBI, Crime Data Explorer API, police employee (LEOKA) data, 2024, retrieved 2026-11-03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-civilian-employees/

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