Table 64

Arrests
Suburban Areas¹
by Age, 2008
[6,405 agencies; 2008 estimated population 101,327,487]

Offense charged	Total all ages	Ages under 15	Ages under 18	Ages 18 and over	Under 10	10-12	13-14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25-29	30-34	35-39	40-44	45-49	50-54	55-59	60-64	65 and over
TOTAL	4,165,010	165,555	617,661	3,547,349	4,382	34,072	127,101	118,240	153,690	180,176	217,946	216,293	194,939	173,245	160,836	150,801	138,899	594,399	412,012	367,301	333,250	279,176	165,654	79,075	35,803	27,720
Total percent distribution²	100.0	4.0	14.8	85.2	0.1	0.8	3.1	2.8	3.7	4.3	5.2	5.2	4.7	4.2	3.9	3.6	3.3	14.3	9.9	8.8	8.0	6.7	4.0	1.9	0.9	0.7
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	2,972	18	250	2,722	0	1	17	42	78	112	191	202	196	152	128	142	101	486	275	287	208	130	90	58	37	39
Forcible rape	5,977	301	905	5,072	3	74	224	168	198	238	349	321	274	271	226	218	185	775	594	559	492	339	224	111	54	80
Robbery	28,029	1,312	7,284	20,745	13	152	1,147	1,461	2,004	2,507	2,801	2,355	1,707	1,370	1,209	1,062	920	3,314	1,817	1,522	1,271	836	370	134	37	20
Aggravated assault	114,554	4,938	15,613	98,941	173	1,234	3,531	2,982	3,590	4,103	4,616	4,652	4,284	4,373	4,165	4,122	3,846	17,002	12,576	11,252	10,107	8,561	4,855	2,340	1,175	1,015
Burglary	86,857	6,859	24,020	62,837	221	1,395	5,243	4,838	5,844	6,479	7,425	6,046	4,470	3,748	3,148	2,716	2,413	10,096	6,400	5,482	4,855	3,412	1,612	631	211	172
Larceny-theft	369,806	26,162	94,017	275,789	489	5,514	20,159	18,477	23,420	25,958	25,976	21,340	16,872	13,764	12,183	10,875	9,752	41,664	28,932	26,817	24,917	20,067	12,023	5,508	2,713	2,386
Motor vehicle theft	23,597	1,141	5,842	17,755	9	132	1,000	1,360	1,657	1,684	1,666	1,257	1,085	948	790	772	713	3,107	2,170	1,893	1,512	1,070	460	195	72	45
Arson	4,406	1,285	2,238	2,168	110	383	792	397	306	250	218	197	152	115	100	76	65	276	251	173	166	150	116	50	28	35
Violent crime³	151,532	6,569	24,052	127,480	189	1,461	4,919	4,653	5,870	6,960	7,957	7,530	6,461	6,166	5,728	5,544	5,052	21,577	15,262	13,620	12,078	9,866	5,539	2,643	1,303	1,154
Violent crime percent distribution²	100.0	4.3	15.9	84.1	0.1	1.0	3.2	3.1	3.9	4.6	5.3	5.0	4.3	4.1	3.8	3.7	3.3	14.2	10.1	9.0	8.0	6.5	3.7	1.7	0.9	0.8
Property crime³	484,666	35,447	126,117	358,549	829	7,424	27,194	25,072	31,227	34,371	35,285	28,840	22,579	18,575	16,221	14,439	12,943	55,143	37,753	34,365	31,450	24,699	14,211	6,384	3,024	2,638
Property crime percent distribution²	100.0	7.3	26.0	74.0	0.2	1.5	5.6	5.2	6.4	7.1	7.3	6.0	4.7	3.8	3.3	3.0	2.7	11.4	7.8	7.1	6.5	5.1	2.9	1.3	0.6	0.5
Other assaults	368,424	27,620	72,620	295,804	811	7,074	19,735	14,303	15,907	14,790	12,881	12,194	11,938	12,196	11,765	11,509	10,943	50,589	38,000	36,494	32,711	26,700	14,755	6,852	3,307	2,970
Forgery and counterfeiting	27,345	109	820	26,525	2	23	84	74	187	450	954	1,243	1,296	1,120	1,062	1,118	1,042	5,245	3,794	3,328	2,597	1,960	1,072	423	155	116
Fraud	82,906	354	2,421	80,485	15	59	280	319	638	1,110	1,998	2,529	2,823	2,639	2,682	2,618	2,592	13,994	12,107	11,369	9,525	7,166	4,299	2,246	1,053	845
Embezzlement	6,287	15	360	5,927	4	3	8	14	107	224	434	434	416	338	295	258	231	888	719	608	518	378	227	117	36	30
Stolen property; buying, receiving, possessing	33,541	1,368	6,114	27,427	15	223	1,130	1,207	1,650	1,889	2,355	2,044	1,670	1,426	1,325	1,167	1,025	4,760	3,261	2,793	2,359	1,715	910	377	151	89
Vandalism	84,055	13,438	33,268	50,787	625	3,386	9,427	6,101	6,666	7,063	6,378	4,612	3,528	3,392	2,750	2,351	2,054	7,895	4,744	4,109	3,545	2,634	1,545	616	328	306
Weapons; carrying, possessing, etc.	45,035	3,815	10,896	34,139	217	1,033	2,565	1,966	2,346	2,769	3,115	2,681	2,209	2,103	1,936	1,720	1,551	5,913	3,435	2,655	2,263	1,966	1,274	653	361	304
Prostitution and commercialized vice	6,505	29	172	6,333	0	3	26	20	52	71	193	242	253	245	294	241	187	1,055	832	764	782	607	318	159	70	91
Sex offenses (except forcible rape and prostitution)	22,806	2,200	4,603	18,203	105	616	1,479	788	777	838	1,008	873	801	729	643	644	555	2,439	1,948	1,939	1,949	1,685	1,142	724	502	622
Drug abuse violations	469,767	8,057	55,575	414,192	84	885	7,088	8,915	15,029	23,574	35,357	33,809	28,746	24,931	22,118	19,894	18,292	72,397	44,197	35,381	30,845	25,412	14,088	5,848	1,970	907
Gambling	1,008	24	79	929	2	3	19	18	22	15	39	41	37	18	23	13	24	116	95	119	95	93	55	68	46	47
Offenses against the family and children	48,629	592	2,394	46,235	30	109	453	478	623	701	818	775	923	1,078	1,121	1,316	1,308	8,026	7,728	7,987	6,690	4,592	2,317	975	368	213
Driving under the influence	507,664	66	5,298	502,366	13	7	46	166	1,133	3,933	10,944	15,080	16,945	24,027	24,522	24,218	22,206	92,545	61,464	53,485	49,799	45,889	30,415	16,653	8,229	5,945
Liquor laws	196,121	3,850	46,653	149,468	47	309	3,494	6,722	13,306	22,775	38,484	38,615	29,608	4,594	3,118	2,401	1,991	7,038	4,638	4,161	4,519	4,568	3,036	1,534	699	464
Drunkenness	160,349	478	4,647	155,702	21	25	432	716	1,216	2,237	5,379	5,700	5,138	7,797	6,889	6,306	5,695	23,381	16,530	16,292	17,601	17,811	11,742	5,567	2,363	1,511
Disorderly conduct	205,143	21,393	60,776	144,367	327	4,827	16,239	12,616	13,787	12,980	10,324	8,414	7,692	8,910	7,791	6,800	5,952	22,892	14,661	13,451	13,014	11,453	6,892	3,239	1,547	1,335
Vagrancy	6,112	160	691	5,421	0	25	135	152	204	175	301	232	209	171	141	172	162	759	569	628	719	596	420	204	84	54
All other offenses (except traffic)	1,207,516	26,357	110,987	1,096,529	787	4,622	20,948	21,660	28,734	34,236	43,682	50,367	51,649	52,768	50,389	48,054	45,080	197,676	140,237	123,704	110,152	89,350	51,364	23,783	10,198	8,076
Suspicion	592	32	111	481	0	5	27	31	28	20	60	38	18	22	23	18	14	71	38	49	39	36	33	10	9	3
Curfew and loitering law violations	21,747	5,627	21,747	-	74	779	4,774	5,173	6,368	4,579	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Runaways	27,260	7,955	27,260	-	185	1,171	6,599	7,076	7,813	4,416	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

¹ Suburban areas include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants and county law enforcement agencies that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area. Suburban areas exclude all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city.
² Because of rounding, the percentages may not add to 100.0.
³ Violent crimes are offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes are offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.

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