Clery Act · offense categories
Campus crime by offense category
Every offense category US colleges must disclose under the Clery Act, with the national on-campus total each one recorded in 2024. Open a category for its multi-year trend, the institutions reporting the most incidents, and rates per 1,000 enrolled students.
- 14
- Offense categories
- 33,224
- Criminal Offenses incidents, 2024
- 17,655
- VAWA incidents, 2024
Offense plate
Sheet CRIME-HUB · 14 Clery categories 2024 · 33,224 criminal / 17,655 VAWA
CAT-14 · SEC-2 · VOL-#1 · RPT-#1 · YR-2024 · SRC-OPE · DUAL-YES · VIZ-CHART
- CAT-14 14 categories
- SEC-2 33,224 / 17,655
- VOL-#1 Motor Vehicle Th…
- RPT-#1 Stalking
- YR-2024 2024
- SRC-OPE OPE Clery
- DUAL-YES Volume ≠ reporters
- VIZ-CHART Dual chart
Offense-category plate for the crime hub: category count, Criminal vs VAWA split, volume leader vs reporting-footprint leader, and dual-chart flag when those leaders diverge. Totals are summed from the federal Clery extract.
Motor Vehicle Theft incident volume #1 is not Stalking reporting-footprint #1
Motor Vehicle Theft ranks #1 of 14 on national on-campus incident volume (12,588, reporter rank #5) but Stalking ranks #1 of 14 on campuses filing at least one report (1,271 campuses, volume rank #2). The most-reported category is not the most widely filed. Criminal Offenses and VAWA stay in separate survey sections. Clery Act on-campus filings, 2024. Filed reports, not a personal risk forecast.
- 12,588 Motor Vehicle Theft incidents
- 1,271 Stalking campuses filing ≥1
- 14 Clery categories in this extract
Incident volume #1 vs reporting footprint #1 (2024)
Campuses that filed at least one on-campus report in each Clery category. The category with the most incidents is not always the one filed by the most campuses.
- Stalking
Stalking
1,271 campuses filing ≥1
- Motor Vehicle Theft
Motor Vehicle Theft
973 campuses filing ≥1
What this shows Motor Vehicle Theft ranks #1 of 14 on national on-campus incident volume (12,588, reporter rank #5) but Stalking ranks #1 of 14 on campuses filing at least one report (1,271 campuses, volume rank #2). The most-reported category is not the most widely filed. Criminal Offenses and VAWA stay in separate survey sections.
Data updated August 2026
Motor Vehicle Theft was the most-reported category in 2024, with 12,588 on-campus incidents. The survey splits into two sections that are counted separately, so each category below sits under the section it is reported in rather than in one combined total.
Criminal Offenses
The offense categories institutions report in the Clery Act Criminal Offenses section, 33,224 on-campus incidents in 2024.
Motor Vehicle Theft →
12,588 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Theft of a motor vehicle.
Burglary →
6,673 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Unlawful entry into a structure to commit a crime.
Rape →
5,379 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Penetration without consent.
Fondling →
4,372 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Sexual touching of another person without consent.
Aggravated Assault →
2,869 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Attack with intent to cause severe bodily injury.
Robbery →
637 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Theft by force or threat of force.
Arson →
628 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Willful burning of property.
Statutory Rape →
54 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Sexual intercourse with a person under the legal age of consent.
Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter →
19 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Intentional killing of one person by another.
Incest →
3 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Sexual intercourse between family members.
Negligent Manslaughter →
2 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Killing through gross negligence.
VAWA Offenses
The three offenses added by the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization. They are reported in their own section and are never added to the Criminal Offenses total, because one incident meeting both definitions is reportable in both. Together they account for 17,655 on-campus incidents in 2024.
Stalking →
9,678 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause fear.
Dating Violence →
4,170 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Violence committed by a person in a romantic or intimate relationship.
Domestic Violence →
3,807 reported on-campus incidents in 2024 · Felony/misdemeanor crime committed by a domestic partner or family member.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Clery Act Campus Safety Survey · 2024 National on-campus totals for all 14 Clery Act offense categories in 2024. Criminal Offenses and VAWA Offenses are reported in separate survey sections and are listed separately here rather than summed.
Open extract wired into this page's Dataset JSON-LD: plaincampus-institutions.csv (U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS; public U.S. federal data).
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