Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS)

Esri uses crime risk data provided by Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) to create a Crime Indexes advanced demographics dataset for the United States.

Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) is a leading supplier of demographic and marketing databases. The Crime Indexes dataset provides insight about the relative risk of specific crime types in the United States. The dataset is not a database of actual crimes, but it can be used to perform risk analysis of specific crime types for a region compared to the United States as a whole. Crime indexes include broad categories of personal and property crime.

Release date and vintage

This dataset was updated in June 2026; the vintage is 2026A.

Geographic availability

Esri's American Crime Indexes dataset is available at the Block Group base level geography and higher. See U.S. geographic boundaries.

Attribute summaries

The following table contains a summary description of the primary attributes in the Crime Indexes dataset. See Crime Indexes for more information about this dataset, such as use cases and related documents.

Attribute	Definition
Total Crime Index	The Total Crime Index provides an assessment of the relative risk of seven major crime types (both personal and property) in the geographic area for the current year. It is modeled using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and AGS.
Personal Crime Index	The Personal Crime Index provides an assessment of four major personal crime types in the geographic area for the current year. It is modeled using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and AGS.
Property Crime Index	The Property Crime Index provides an assessment of the relative risk of three major property crime types in the geographic area for the current year. It is modeled using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and AGS.