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The table below contains the data reported in 2008 for the states that have the highest burglary rates per 100,000 residents.¹

Rank State Total burglaries 1 North Carolina 1201.1 2 Arkansas 1,180.0 3 New Mexico 1,094.2 4 Alabama 1,081.3 5 Tennessee 1,046.0 6 Georgia 1,038.9 7 Florida 1,028.3 8 South Carolina 1,026.1 9 Louisiana 982.1 10 Oklahoma 963.1 11 Texas 946.0 12 Nevada 929.0 13 Ohio 892.8 14 Mississippi 885.6 15 Arizona 868.9 16 Washington 801.3 17 Missouri 774.5 18 Delaware 774.3 19 Indiana 762.8 20 Michigan 741.5 21 Hawaii 728.1 22 Kansas 699.9 23 Maryland 689.6 24 Kentucky 675.5 25 California 647.1 26 Washington, D.C. 640.0

Rank State Total burglaries 27 Illinois 612.1 28 West Virginia 609.9 29 Colorado 572.0 30 Massachusetts 555.5 31 Vermont 557.2 32 Oregon 550.9 33 Iowa 547.9 34 Rhode Island 547.2 35 Utah 536.5 36 Minnesota 505.9 37 Maine 495.4 38 Nebraska 492.0 39 Wisconsin 488.3 40 Alaska 472.1 41 Pennsylvania 470.9 42 New Jersey 465.3 43 Idaho 439.8 44 Connecticut 428.7 45 Virginia 411.8 46 Wyoming 410.0 47 Montana 344.4 48 New York 337.3 49 North Dakota 328.3 50 New Hampshire 325.7 51 South Dakota 302.2

¹The Disaster Center for FEMA, compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States National Crime Statistics, 2008