Sex offender registry search, in every US jurisdiction
One search covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five US territories: 58 registries in one layout, with every match scored and de-duplicated so one person is one record however many jurisdictions hold them. Pick a jurisdiction below, or search them all at once.
New to this? Start with the offender lookup guide, see what is in the registered offender database, or read the per-jurisdiction search guides.
Sex offender registry by state: the 50 states and DC. One row per jurisdiction, linked to its reference page.
Date-of-birth match is how precisely that jurisdiction publishes a birthday, which decides how well a birth date tells two people apart; matchState is the label every record carries for it. Registered population is a rounded scale figure, not a live count. County and city columns count the local pages we publish.
Sex offender registries in the US territories. Five more registries, in the same search.
Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands each keep their own registry. A search across all jurisdictions includes them in the same layout as the states — nothing separate to set up.
| Jurisdiction | Date-of-birth match | matchState | Registered population | County pages | City pages | Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | — | 0 | 0 | Puerto Rico statistics |
| Guam sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 857 | 0 | 0 | Guam statistics |
| US Virgin Islands sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 139 | 0 | 0 | US Virgin Islands statistics |
| American Samoa sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 147 | 0 | 0 | American Samoa statistics |
| Northern Mariana Islands sex offender registry | Full date | dob_match | ≈ 108 | 0 | 0 | Northern Mariana Islands statistics |
How date-of-birth matching differs between state registries. The single biggest reason the same search behaves differently from one state to the next.
Full date of birth · 39
Birth year only · 7
Full date of birth
A full birth date confirms the person, so a namesake with a different birthday is ruled out. A date you send returns dob_match.
Birth year only
Only the year matches (year_match), so a namesake born the same year is labelled for you to check rather than silently accepted.
Age only
The registry lists an age, so a match is resolved against it within a tolerance (age_match). Check the photo.
Mixed or partial
Full date on part of the roster, and year precision or a name-only match on the rest — each record says which.
Send the full date of birth whenever you have it; it is valid in every jurisdiction, and the label on each result tells you how far it could be used. Matching is explained in depth in our methodology.
Check your own address against every state sex offender registry. The count near you is free.
Type your address and see how many registered sex offenders live near it. Seeing who they are — names, photos and exact addresses on a map — is optional and priced on your account.
Checking one person? A Background Check is $9.99 — name plus where they live or work, across 58 registries and criminal records.Run a Background Check
Public registry information. It may not be used for employment, tenant, credit or insurance decisions, or to harass or threaten anyone.
Sex offenders by city and county. Local registry pages with their own count and map.
Criminal records by state.
The same account searches county jails, state corrections, courts and warrants: almost 50 million criminal records.
Criminal records by state ›What a state sex offender registry is — and what each state decides. One federal floor, 56 sets of rules.
A sex offender registry is a list a jurisdiction keeps of people convicted of registrable offenses, with the address and identifying details they must report. The federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, sets minimum standards. It groups registrants into three tiers and sets minimum registration periods and in-person check-in schedules for each.
The registries themselves are run by the states, territories and tribes, and each writes its own statute. That is why registries differ on who must register, how long registration lasts, how tiers or risk levels are assigned, and which registrants appear on the public website. The reference page for each jurisdiction covers what that means for a search there.
| SORNA tier | Minimum registration period | In-person verification |
|---|---|---|
| Tier I | 15 years | Every year |
| Tier II | 25 years | Every 6 months |
| Tier III | Life | Every 3 months |
What a sex offender registry record shows. Six things, in almost every state.
- Name and aliases, as the registry lists them.
- Photo — on 96% of the records we measured nationally.
- Date of birth, birth year or age, depending on the jurisdiction.
- Address, labelled home, work or school, with housing status where the registry states it.
- Offense — named on 98% of the records we measured, grouped into plain categories on the sex offense types guide.
- Tier, level or risk designation, where the registry publishes one.
Searching one state registry vs. all 58 registries at once. A state site is free; here one check covers all 58.
| One state’s own site | All registries here | |
|---|---|---|
| Registries per search | One | 58 |
| Registered in another state | Usually not shown | Shown, merged into one result |
| What you see | That state’s own layout | One layout for every jurisdiction |
| Match evidence | Read it yourself | Scored, with a matchState label |
| Cost | Free | $9.99 a Background Check, paid once |
A state’s own site is the right tool for a quick look in one state, and the place to double-check a record. Counts for each state are on registry numbers by state.
Which state has the most registered sex offenders? Texas by count, then Florida.
By the records we index, Texas has the largest sex offender registry, at about 108,000 records, ahead of Florida at about 92,900. Bigger states lead on raw counts; per resident the order changes a lot.
Texas sex offender registryFlorida sex offender registrySex offender statistics by stateWhich state has the most sex offenders
Sex offender registry by state: common questions. Short answers.
Is there a national sex offender registry?
Not as a single database. Each state, territory and participating tribe runs its own registry under its own law. A national search tool queries those registries and shows the results together; ours does the same through one API call across all 58 US registries, and merges duplicates so one person is one result.
How do I search a state sex offender registry?
Open the state’s reference page below. Each one compares searching the state’s own site with searching here, explains how date of birth is published in that state, and links to the state’s statistics. To check someone who may have lived in more than one state, search all registries at once instead of one state at a time.
How long do sex offenders stay on the registry?
It depends on the state. Federal law (SORNA) sets minimum periods of 15 years for Tier I, 25 years for Tier II and life for Tier III, but each state writes its own statute, and some register for longer, use different tiers or allow earlier removal.
Why does the same search give different detail in different states?
Registries publish different fields. 39 of 56 jurisdictions publish a full date of birth; others publish only a birth year or an age. Our results label the precision each match reached so you can see the difference rather than guess at it.
Can I use a sex offender registry search to screen a tenant or employee?
Not on its own. Using registry results to decide whether to hire, rent to or insure someone brings the Fair Credit Reporting Act into play. For those decisions, use an FCRA-regulated workflow such as FCRA Partner Access.
How many people are on sex offender registries in the US?
About 1,560,000 registry records on our index as of August 2026. The statistics pages break that figure down by state, county and city.
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