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National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

A Federal resource for professionals, parents and youth working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.

Statistics & Data on Youth Violence

This section provides statistics on youth violence and related topics. Information is presented in the following subsections:

Selected Recent Publications and Data Briefs
Demographic Data
Data on Youth Risk Behaviors
Youth Violence Data by Topic
Interactive Data Tools
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
Raw Data/Datasets

Selected Recent Publications and Data Briefs

This subsection provides links to selected publications and briefs that include data relating to youth violence and related topics released or published within the past 12 months

Demographic Data

This subsection provides links to data on selected demographic characteristics known to have an association with youth violence.

Age and Sex

Education

Employment/Unemployment Rates

Poverty

Data on Youth Risk Behaviors

This subsection provides links to data on youth risk behaviors.

Comprehensive Reports

Substance Use

Truancy/School Absences/Drop Out

Youth Violence Data by Topic

This subsection provides links to data on youth violence by topic.

Arrests/Crime/Justice

Homicide

School/College Violence

Weapon-Related/Firearm-Related/Gun-Related Violence

Interactive Data Tools

This subsection provides links to interactive data tools that allow users to gain more data on their topics of interest. These resources permit searching by specific variables of interest.

KIDS COUNT, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

This subsection includes links to tools that use GIS technology for viewing and analyzing data.

CDC WONDER

Helping America's Youth

KIDS COUNT, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

SMART

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. National Center for Education Statistics

Raw Data/Datasets

This subsection provides links to sources for public-use and restricted-use data, including downloadable data and data that require the assistance of the listed organization to use.

KIDS COUNT, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention