Incident-level crime data, not just totals
The FBI's Crime Data Explorer API is free and national, and it returns aggregate counts by agency, state and nation. If you need what happened near an address last week, you need incident records from city open-data portals. This API normalizes those into one schema.
| FBI Crime Data Explorer API | Crime Data API | |
|---|---|---|
| Unit | Counts per agency, state or nation | Individual incidents with location and time |
| Query | By agency or state | By latitude, longitude and radius |
| Freshness | Annual and monthly releases | Daily for 7 cities; quarterly for NYC |
| Coverage | National | 10 US cities at street level: San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Dallas, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Boston, Washington, Minneapolis, Milwaukee; city-wide FBI rates for other US cities via the score fallback |
| Price | Free | 500 calls a month free, then from $29 a month |
Use both: FBI data for national and year-over-year context, this API for street-level, recent activity.
Try it
GET /v1/incidents?lat=37.788&lon=-122.4075&radius_m=500&category=theft_from_vehicle&limit=20
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Data comes from each city's open-data portal under the licence shown. It is police-reported incident data, not convictions, and can be revised by the source. Compared with the FBI API · Terms · Refunds · Privacy · DPA · Contact
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