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Law enforcement employees per 1,000 people: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Law enforcement employees per 1,000 people. 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: 3.53 (United States).

Washington: 2.05Idaho: 3.1Montana: 3.07North Dakota: 3.33Minnesota: 2.77Michigan: 2.72Ohio: 2.93Pennsylvania: 3.11New York: 4.18Vermont: 2.32New Hampshire: 2.72Maine: 2.25Arizona: 3.03California: 3.51New Mexico: 3.98Texas: 3.57Louisiana: 4.47Mississippi: 3.22Alabama: 3.54Florida: 3.38Georgia: 3.57South Carolina: 3.18North Carolina: 3.15Virginia: 2.75District of Columbia: 6.47Maryland: 3.34Delaware: 3.38New Jersey: 5.14Connecticut: 2.63Rhode Island: 2.84Massachusetts: 3.15Oregon: 2.58Utah: 2.7Wyoming: 4.62Nevada: 3.63Colorado: 3.39South Dakota: 3.62Nebraska: 2.81Kansas: 3.66Oklahoma: 3.34Iowa: 2.94Missouri: 3.35Wisconsin: 3.21Illinois: 3.72Kentucky: 2.62Arkansas: 3.62Tennessee: 4.02West Virginia: 2.3Indiana: 2.88Alaska: 2.56Hawaii: 2.36

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 2.05 to 2.72
  • Group 2: 2.72 to 3.07
  • Group 3: 3.07 to 3.34
  • Group 4: 3.34 to 3.62
  • Highest: 3.62 to 6.47
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).

1District of Columbia6.47
2New Jersey5.14
3Wyoming4.62
4Louisiana4.47
5New York4.18
6Tennessee4.02
7New Mexico3.98
8Illinois3.72
9Kansas3.66
10Nevada3.63
11Arkansas3.62
11South Dakota3.62
13Georgia3.57
13Texas3.57
15Alabama3.54
16California3.51
17Colorado3.39
18Delaware3.38
18Florida3.38
20Missouri3.35
21Maryland3.34
21Oklahoma3.34
23North Dakota3.33
24Mississippi3.22
25Wisconsin3.21
26South Carolina3.18
27Massachusetts3.15
27North Carolina3.15
29Pennsylvania3.11
30Idaho3.1
31Montana3.07
32Arizona3.03
33Iowa2.94
34Ohio2.93
35Indiana2.88
36Rhode Island2.84
37Nebraska2.81
38Minnesota2.77
39Virginia2.75
40Michigan2.72
40New Hampshire2.72
42Utah2.7
43Connecticut2.63
44Kentucky2.62
45Oregon2.58
46Alaska2.56
47Hawaii2.36
48Vermont2.32
49West Virginia2.3
50Maine2.25
51Washington2.05

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.

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U.S. states ranked by law enforcement employees per 1,000 people (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-law-enforcement-employees-per-1000-people/

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