Alaska Has Highest Rate
A list of states with the highest rape rates has been released and Alaska has the highest level of rapes at 3 times the national average. The FBI has stated that “reported rape is higher in Alaska than any other state.”
Rates are the number of reported forcible rapes per 100,000 people.
| 1. New Jersey – 11.7
2. New York – 14.6 3. Virginia – 17.7 4. Vermont – 19.3 5. North Carolina – 20.3 6. Hawaii – 20.5 7. California – 20.6 8. Maryland – 21 9. Wisconsin – 21.3 10. Georgia – 21.4 11. West Virginia – 22.7 12. Massachusetts – 24.7 13. Missouri – 25.1 14. Louisiana – 25.2 15. Indiana – 25.5 16. Connecticut – 25.6 17. Pennsylvania – 26.1 18. Delaware – 26.5 19. Wyoming – 26.7 20. Alabama – 26.9 |
21. Florida – 27.2
22. Rhode Island – 27.4 23. Mississippi – 27.5 24. Illinois – 27.7 25. Maine – 28 26. Iowa – 28.3 27. Kentucky – 29 28. Oregon – 29.2 29. Texas – 29.6 30. Idaho – 30 31. Minnesota – 30.5 32. Tennessee – 31.5 33. Ohio – 31.7 34. Washington – 31.8 35. Utah – 33 36. Nevada – 33.7 37. New Hampshire – 34 38. Arizona – 34.7 39. South Carolina – 35.5 |
40. Kansas – 36.5
41. District of Columbia – 37.3 42. Montana – 37.7 43. Nebraska – 38.3 44. North Dakota 38.9 45. Colorado – 40.7 46. Oklahoma – 41.6 47. Arkansas – 42.3 48. New Mexico – 45.9 49. Michigan – 46.4 50. South Dakota – 70.2 51. Alaska – 79.7 |
