Statutory Rape is a Clery Act reportable offense category - sexual intercourse with a person under the legal age of consent.. Across the 3-year reporting window from 2022 to 2024, US colleges and universities cumulatively reported 212 statutory rape incidents on-campus. The most recent year on record (2024) shows 54 incidents, reported by 40 of the 5,585 institutions in the survey, an average of 1.35 among the institutions that reported any. Year-over-year, statutory rape reporting fell by 34.9% - 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
Statutory Rape on campus
National reporting patterns for statutory rape across 5,585 U.S. colleges and universities.
reported incidents 54 2024 national total
40 campuses reported at least one
99.3% of surveyed campuses reported none
-34.9% latest year-over-year change
Offense plate
Sheet CRIME-STATUTORY-RA · Statutory Rape 2024 · 40 reporters
TIER-RARE · SIL-HIGH · TRD-PEAK · GEO-REG · GRP-CRIM · INC-TOT · YR-2024 · SRC-OPE
- TIER-RARE Rare reporters
- SIL-HIGH 99.3% zero
- TRD-PEAK Peaked
- GEO-REG Regional
- GRP-CRIM #8 in group
- INC-TOT 54
- YR-2024 2024
- SRC-OPE OPE Clery
Offense plate for Statutory Rape: 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.
54 statutory rape incidents reported on U.S. campuses in 2024
According to U.S. Department of Education Clery Act filings, U.S. colleges reported 54 on-campus statutory rape incidents in 2024, from 40 of 5,585 surveyed institutions, a 34.9% fall versus the prior year. Dallas College leads the named campus list with 3 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
- 54
- Campuses reporting ≥1
- 40
- Surveyed campuses with zero
- 99.3%
- Year-over-year change
- -34.9%
Statutory Rape briefing
What the statutory rape national total does, and does not, show
The peak year for statutory rape reporting was 2023 with 83 incidents. An average of 41 institutions recorded at least one such incident each year across the reporting window. The single institution with the most reported statutory rape incidents in 2024 is Dallas College in Dallas, TX with 3 incidents (6% of the national total).
Within criminal offenses reported in 2024, statutory rape is the 8th most-reported of 11 offences, at 0.2% of the group's 33,224 incidents. Reporting is widely distributed: the single highest-reporting institution accounts for 6% of the 2024 national total, so no one campus drives this figure. No campus accounts for more than 6% of the 2024 total, so the order below tracks institution size as much as anything else: these are raw incident counts, not per-student rates, and a large university can lead the table without being less safe than a small one.
Reporting is geographically partial: only 17 states and territories recorded a statutory rape incident at all in 2024, with CA alone accounting for 25.9% of them. A state missing from that list has not been shown to be safer; it recorded nothing, which is a different claim. The counts cover on-campus locations only, noncampus and public-property incidents being separate Clery Act categories.
The peak is behind the latest year
Statutory Rape reporting did not move in one direction across this window. It reached 83 incidents in 2023 and stood at 54 in 2024, so the most recent figure is below the window's high rather than at it. Reading only the latest year against the earliest would hide that turn.
The survey population was unchanged across the window at 5,585 institutions, so the shape is not produced by schools entering or leaving the dataset. Among institutions that reported at least one incident, the average moved from 1.8 to 1.4.
Statutory Rape reporting window
Statutory Rape year-by-year trend
2022 75
2023 83
2024 54
| Year | Total Incidents | Schools Reporting ≥1 | Surveyed | Avg Among Reporters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 75 | 41 | 5,585 | 1.83 |
| 2023 | 83 | 43 | 5,585 | 1.93 |
| 2024 | 54 | 40 | 5,585 | 1.35 |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Clery Act Campus Safety Survey · 2024 National trend for Statutory Rape. Counts cover on-campus incidents; 40 of 5,585 surveyed institutions reported at least one in 2024.
Statutory Rape: campuses with the most reports (2024)
A visible cluster at the top
Three campuses hold 16.7% of the 2024 total: Dallas College, Sonoma State University and San Francisco State University. That group is large enough to shape the headline but not large enough to stand in for the country; the first 20 rows together reach 63%. Compare both the cluster and the remaining reporters before treating a high raw count as typical.
The trio averages 3.0 incidents per campus, against 1.2 among the other 37 reporters. The gap is visible, but most incidents still sit beyond those three rows.
Only 40 institutions recorded any statutory rape in 2024; the highest-count 20 of them appear below. At these counts a per-1,000-students rate is not meaningful, so none is shown.
| # | Institution | State | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dallas College Dallas | TX | 3 |
| 2 | Sonoma State University Rohnert Park | CA | 3 |
| 3 | San Francisco State University San Francisco | CA | 3 |
| 4 | Longwood University Farmville | VA | 2 |
| 5 | Texas A&M University-College Station College Station | TX | 2 |
| 6 | Tarrant County College District Fort Worth | TX | 2 |
| 7 | Sam Houston State University Huntsville | TX | 2 |
| 8 | Minnesota North College Hibbing | MN | 2 |
| 9 | Berea College Berea | KY | 2 |
| 10 | California State University-Fullerton Fullerton | CA | 2 |
| 11 | Northern Arizona University Flagstaff | AZ | 2 |
| 12 | Texas State Technical College Waco | TX | 1 |
| 13 | South Texas College Mcallen | TX | 1 |
| 14 | Santiago Canyon College Orange | CA | 1 |
| 15 | Georgia State University-Perimeter College Atlanta | GA | 1 |
| 16 | Vermont State University Randolph | VT | 1 |
| 17 | Lone Star College System The Woodlands | TX | 1 |
| 18 | University of the Incarnate Word San Antonio | TX | 1 |
| 19 | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater | OK | 1 |
| 20 | Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College Miami | OK | 1 |