BJS Releases Preliminary Victimization Estimates from the NCVS, 2025
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, released Preliminary Victimization Estimates from the NCVS, 2025 today. This report presents preliminary 2025 estimates from the redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS-R) instrument. These estimates may change when BJS publishes final estimates in Criminal Victimization, 2025 (forthcoming in 2027). The NCVS is administered to persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. The survey collects information on nonfatal personal and household property crimes, including those that are reported and not reported to police. BJS fully transitioned to the NCVS-R in January 2025. The NCVS-R estimates are not comparable to legacy NCVS estimates.
| Title: | Preliminary Victimization Estimates from the NCVS, 2025 (NCJ 312234) |
| Author(s): | Jennifer L. Truman, PhD, and Susannah N. Tapp, PhD, BJS Statisticians |
| Where: | https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/preliminary-victimization-estimates-ncvs-2025 |
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