Crime map
The criminal-record jurisdictions searched in every US state — county jail rosters, statewide prison systems, courts and warrant systems. Open any state to see what it publishes, or search all 1,161 of them in a single call.
A Background Check is $9.99, paid once. Every result states which kind of record it is.
Crime map by state: criminal-record jurisdictions searched. Darker means more jurisdictions answering in that state.
Why searching criminal records by state beats county by county
Depth follows county structure
Kentucky leads with 66 answering jurisdictions. States that run criminal justice at county level publish more separate sources — which is exactly what makes searching them by hand impractical.
7 states publish all four statewide layers
Prison, court, warrant and registry together. Where a state publishes the full stack you can follow a person from charge to disposition without leaving one call.
Federal sits alongside every state
Federal custody, courts and warrants are a separate system holding offences no state search will surface — searched in the same call. See federal search.
Four kinds of criminal records on the crime map
Every result states which kind of record it is, because they make different claims about a person.
County jail bookings
Who was taken into custody, when, and on what charges at booking. An arrest-stage record — it does not say how the case ended.
Prison custody
Statewide systems holding people after conviction, with facility and admission date.
Court dispositions
The authoritative statement of how a case actually ended — the record that separates a charge from a conviction.
Warrants
People sought rather than held. Outstanding by definition, and absent from every custody search.
What the criminal records on the crime map contain
From a random sample of 66,154 records on our index. Charge shares are over the 41% of records that carry charge detail.
- Theft, larceny and stolen property14%
- Drug possession13%
- Assault, battery and threats10%
- Burglary and breaking & entering9%
- Fraud, forgery and identity theft8%
- Drug sale, distribution or manufacture8%
- Traffic offenses (not DUI)7%
- DUI / DWI6%
- Public order, trespass and property damage6%
- Sex offenses5%
By record type, the sample splits state prison (department of corrections) records 50%, court cases 49%, county jail bookings 1%. Where a record states the offense level — 9% of the sample — 60% are felonies. And 93% of court cases in the sample carry no stated outcome, which is why a charge is never read as a conviction without the disposition.
Charge categories are defined on the criminal charge types guide, and what each record type means for a check is on what shows up on a background check.
What the crime map doesn't show
Crime map data: every state ranked by jurisdictions searched
The full table behind the map, with the county depth and statewide layers each state publishes.
| # | Jurisdiction | Searched | County depth · statewide layers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kentucky | 66 | 65 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | 64 | 61 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 3 | New York | 60 | 57 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 4 | Montana | 58 | 55 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 5 | Colorado | 46 | 43 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 6 | Indiana | 43 | 40 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 7 | Texas | 41 | 38 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 8 | Missouri | 37 | 35 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 9 | Ohio | 36 | 32 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 10 | Michigan | 35 | 32 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 11 | Idaho | 34 | 32 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 12 | Oregon | 34 | 31 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 13 | Virginia | 34 | 31 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 14 | California | 30 | 27 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 15 | Washington | 30 | 27 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 16 | Maryland | 27 | 25 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 17 | New Mexico | 25 | 22 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 18 | Illinois | 25 | 21 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 19 | New Jersey | 24 | 21 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 20 | South Dakota | 23 | 21 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 21 | Florida | 21 | 17 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 22 | Utah | 21 | 18 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 21 | 19 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 24 | Maine | 21 | 20 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 25 | Georgia | 20 | 18 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 26 | South Carolina | 20 | 17 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 27 | Mississippi | 20 | 17 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 28 | Iowa | 20 | 17 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 29 | North Carolina | 19 | 17 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 30 | Kansas | 17 | 13 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 31 | Tennessee | 16 | 12 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 32 | Massachusetts | 16 | 15 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 33 | Minnesota | 15 | 11 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 34 | Oklahoma | 15 | 11 county · 4 of 4 statewide |
| 35 | Louisiana | 15 | 12 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 36 | New Hampshire | 13 | 12 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 37 | Nevada | 12 | 9 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 38 | Arizona | 11 | 9 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 39 | Arkansas | 10 | 7 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 40 | Nebraska | 10 | 9 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 41 | Wyoming | 9 | 8 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 42 | North Dakota | 9 | 6 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 43 | Alabama | 7 | 5 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 44 | Hawaii | 7 | 5 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 45 | Delaware | 5 | 2 county · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 46 | Alaska | 4 | 2 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 47 | District of Columbia | 4 | 2 county · 2 of 4 statewide |
| 48 | West Virginia | 3 | — · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 49 | Connecticut | 3 | — · 3 of 4 statewide |
| 50 | Vermont | 3 | 1 county · 1 of 4 statewide |
| 51 | Rhode Island | 2 | — · 2 of 4 statewide |
Crime map: common questions. Records about people, mapped by state.
Is this an interactive crime map?
Yes. Every state is shaded by how many criminal-record jurisdictions are searched there — county jails, statewide prison systems, courts and warrant systems — and every state opens in full, listing what it publishes and linking to a search across it.
Does the map show where crimes happened?
It maps records about people rather than incidents on streets. An incident map plots reported offences by location; this maps the jail bookings, prison custody, court cases and warrants that counties and states publish, which is what tells you about a specific person rather than a specific block. If you are checking a person, this is the map you want.
How many jurisdictions can I search at once?
1,164 are answering today across 52 states, out of 1,545 in the roster. One unscoped call reaches all of the live ones instead of making you open one county site after another, and every response reports which jurisdictions answered.
Which state has the deepest coverage?
Kentucky, with 66 jurisdictions answering. Depth follows county structure more than population — states that run criminal justice at county level publish more separate sources, which is exactly why searching them one at a time is impractical and why one call across all of them is worth having.
Does a record on the map mean a conviction?
Read the record kind, which every result states. A jail booking is an arrest-stage record and says nothing about the outcome. Custody in a prison system implies a sentence. A court disposition is the authoritative statement of how a case ended. A warrant means someone is sought and nothing has been tested. These are different claims and we label which one you are looking at.
Can I use this for screening?
Standard results are not a consumer report; FCRA-covered decisions run through FCRA Partner Access, a separately enabled regulated service with its own controls. See the employee and tenant guides for how teams structure that.
What is the most common charge on criminal records?
In a random sample of 66,154 records on our index, the most common charge category among records with charge detail is theft, larceny and stolen property (14%), followed by drug possession (13%).