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Victimization surveys

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) API

Note!

In July of 2025, changes were made to specific endpoints. All datasets remain available using modified endpoint locations described in the access instructions below.

This page provides information on National Crime Victimization (NCVS) datasets by using the Application Programming Interface (API), which uses the Representational State Transfer architecture, which is commonly referred to as Rest APIs. 

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) 

The National...

National Crime Victimization Survey

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 240,000 persons in about 150,000 households. Persons are interviewed on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States.

The NCVS collects information on nonfatal personal crimes (i.e., rape or sexual assault, robbery...