Table 13, Data Declaration

Crime Trends by Suburban and Nonsuburban Cities, by Population Group, 2004-2005

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The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

General comments

This 2-year trend table provides the number of offenses for the years 2004 and 2005, and the percent change between the two comparison years for suburban and nonsuburban cities.
Suburban cities include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants that are within a Metropolitan Statistical Area but excludes all metropolitan agencies associated with a principal city.
Nonsuburban cities include law enforcement agencies in cities with less than 50,000 in population that are not associated with a Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Methodology

The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies submitting at least 6 common months of complete offense reports for 2004 and 2005.
In calculating trends, the UCR Program includes only common reported months for individual agencies.

Population groups

The UCR Program uses the following population group designations:

Population Group	Political Label	Population Range
I	City	250,000 and more
II	City	100,000 to 249,999
III	City	50,000 to 99,999
IV	City	25,000 to 49,999
V	City	10,000 to 24,999
VI	City¹	Less than 10,000
VIII (Nonmetropolitan County)	County²	N/A
IX (Metropolitan County)	County²	N/A

¹Includes universities and colleges to which no population is attributed.
²Includes state police to which no population is attributed.

If you have questions about this table

Contact the Communications Unit of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at cjis_comm@leo.gov or by telephone at (304) 625-4995.