Incest is a Clery Act reportable offense category - sexual intercourse between family members.. Across the 3-year reporting window from 2022 to 2024, US colleges and universities cumulatively reported 6 incest incidents on-campus. The most recent year on record (2024) shows 3 incidents, reported by 3 of the 5,585 institutions in the survey, an average of 1.00 among the institutions that reported any. Year-over-year, incest reporting held steady by 0.0% - a signal that should be read alongside reporting-practice changes, not only real-world incidence.
Crime record / national series 2024 Clery survey
Federal campus-safety record
Incest on campus
National reporting patterns for incest across 5,585 U.S. colleges and universities.
reported incidents 3 2024 national total
3 campuses reported at least one
99.9% of surveyed campuses reported none
0.0% latest year-over-year change
Offense plate
Sheet CRIME-INCEST · Incest 2024 · 3 reporters
TIER-RARE · SIL-HIGH · TRD-TOOS · GEO-SPARSE · GRP-CRIM · INC-TOT · YR-2024 · SRC-OPE
- TIER-RARE Rare reporters
- SIL-HIGH 99.9% zero
- TRD-TOOS Small counts
- GEO-SPARSE Sparse
- GRP-CRIM #10 in group
- INC-TOT 3
- YR-2024 2024
- SRC-OPE OPE Clery
Offense plate for Incest: reporting tier, zero-reporting share, trend shape, geographic breadth, and Clery group rank. Every stamp is derived from this offence's federal extract, not portal boilerplate.
3 incest incidents reported on U.S. campuses in 2024
According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, U.S. colleges reported 3 on-campus incest incidents in 2024, from 3 of 5,585 surveyed institutions, a 0.0% flat move versus the prior year. Minnesota State University Moorhead leads the named campus list with 1 incidents. These are filed reports, not a personal risk forecast, and zeros are common for many offence types.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- 2024 national total
- 3
- Campuses reporting ≥1
- 3
- Surveyed campuses with zero
- 99.9%
- Year-over-year change
- 0.0%
Incest briefing
What the incest national total does, and does not, show
The peak year for incest reporting was 2023 with 3 incidents. An average of 2 institutions recorded at least one such incident each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported incest incidents in 2024 is Minnesota State University Moorhead in Moorhead, MN with 1 incidents (33% of the national total).
Within criminal offenses reported in 2024, incest is the 10th most-reported of 11 offences, at 0% of the group's 33,224 incidents. Reporting is concentrated: the single highest-reporting institution accounts for 33% of the 2024 national total. With 33% of the 2024 national total at one institution, the ranking below describes that campus's reporting more than any national pattern, and a change in how it records incest would move the whole table.
Incest reached the federal count in just 3 states in 2024, so there is no national geography to read here: the map is a handful of named institutions, and one further report would redraw it. The figure counts on-campus incidents only, with noncampus and adjacent public property filed under separate Clery Act categories.
Why no trend is claimed for this offence
Across 5,585 surveyed institutions this offence produced at most 3 reported incidents in a single year. At that scale a year-over-year percentage is arithmetic rather than evidence: one additional report from one campus can move it by tens of percent, and one fewer can erase it.
The year-by-year counts are published below unchanged, without a direction being read into them. For this offence the useful question is which institutions recorded anything at all, not whether a national rate moved.
Incest reporting window
Incest year-by-year trend
2022 0
2023 3
2024 3
| Year | Total Incidents | Schools Reporting ≥1 | Surveyed | Avg Among Reporters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 5,585 | - |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 | 5,585 | 1.00 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 5,585 | 1.00 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Clery Act Campus Safety Survey · 2024 National trend for Incest. Counts cover on-campus incidents; 3 of 5,585 surveyed institutions reported at least one in 2024.
Incest: campuses with the most reports (2024)
A few campuses materially shape the record
The leading three campuses account for 100% of all reported incest incidents in 2024, and the 3 institutions listed below cover 100% of the national count. At this concentration, a small change at one leading campus can reorder the table and move the total. Read the underlying records for Minnesota State University Moorhead, Wayne State University and George Washington University rather than treating small rank gaps as stable differences.
There is no reporting tail beyond the leading trio; the entire national count fits inside these rows.
This is the complete national list: all 3 institutions that recorded any incest in 2024, not a top-20 extract. At these counts a per-1,000-students rate is not meaningful, so none is shown.
| # | Institution | State | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead | MN | 1 |
| 2 | Wayne State University Detroit | MI | 1 |
| 3 | George Washington University Washington | DC | 1 |