Based on Violent Crime rate per 100,000 people, 1991 was the most dangerous year in U.S. history with a rate of 758.2 per 100,000 residents. There were 1,911,767 violent crimes reported that year with a population of 252,153,092.

Rank	Year	Rate per 100k	Population	Violent Crime
1	1991	758.2	252,153,092	1,911,767
2	1992	757.7	255,029,699	1,932,274
3	1993	747.1	257,782,608	1,926,017
4	1990	729.6	249,464,396	1,820,127
5	1994	713.6	260,327,021	1,857,670
6	1995	684.5	262,803,276	1,798,792
7	1989	666.9	246,819,230	1,646,037
8	1988	640.6	244,498,982	1,566,221
9	1996	636.6	265,228,572	1,688,540
10	1986	620.1	240,132,887	1,489,169
11	1987	612.5	242,288,918	1,483,999
12	1997	611.0	267,783,607	1,636,096
13	1998	567.6	270,248,003	1,533,887
14	1999	523.0	272,690,813	1,426,044
15	2000	506.5	281,421,906	1,425,486
16	2001	504.5	285,317,559	1,439,480
17	2002	494.4	287,973,924	1,423,677
18	2006	477.5	299,398,484	1,429,739
19	2003	475.8	290,788,976	1,383,676
20	2007	472.7	301,621,157	1,425,843
21	2005	469.2	296,410,404	1,390,695
22	2004	463.2	293,656,842	1,360,088
23	2008	456.2	304,059,724	1,387,179
24	2009	430.5	307,006,550	1,321,763
25	2010	404.9	308,745,538	1,250,060
26	2016	397.8	323,127,513	1,285,447
27	2020	392.3	329,484,123	1,292,434
28	2022	389.6	333,287,557	1,298,541
29	2017	388.9	325,719,178	1,266,678
30	2012	387.3	313,914,040	1,215,903
31	2011	387.3	311,591,917	1,206,694
32	2015	382.8	321,418,820	1,230,265
33	2018	380.2	327,167,434	1,243,852
34	2013	380.1	316,128,839	1,201,576
35	2023	379.5	336,806,231	1,278,301
36	2019	375.5	328,239,355	1,232,650
37	2014	372.4	318,857,056	1,187,378
38	2021	370.4	331,894,354	1,229,426
39	2024	359.1	340,110,988	1,221,345