Time Trend

Month-by-month homicide counts (US 2016 to 2024) with HP trend/cycle and yearly clearance rate (2014 to 2023).

Homicide Rate (Monthly)

Dec 2016 to Dec 2024

05001,0001,5002,0002,500Dec 2016Jan 2018Jan 2020Jan 2022Jan 2024Dec 2024Date
Clearance rate in this view is the naive annual rate (`clearances / homicides`), computed from yearly totals.
Sources: time-trend and decomposition inputs from FBI UCR CDE (Expanded Homicide / SHR); yearly clearance rate from murderdata.org.