Video doorbells have become a substantial part of U.S. household security, while package theft remains a measurable delivery risk. The statistics below distinguish household adoption, online-shoppers’ behavior, theft victims, historical surveys, estimates, and research benchmarks rather than treating them as one population.
Key Video Doorbell Statistics
The most broadly useful figures include:
- Video doorbells were reported in 37% of U.S. households in 2023.
- Video doorbells were reported in 45% of U.S. households in 2024.
- The 2026 estimate put video doorbells in 48% of U.S. households, or 58.9 million homes.
- Home-security-camera adoption reached 61% of U.S. households in 2026, a broader category than video doorbells.
- Among U.S. non-users surveyed in 2026, 22% planned to add or upgrade a video doorbell within 12 months.
- Among U.S. renters surveyed in 2026, 27% planned to add or upgrade a video doorbell within 12 months.
- In 2025, 34% of U.S. online shoppers used a doorbell camera to prevent package theft.
- In 2025, 88% of U.S. online shoppers used at least one package-theft prevention strategy.
- The 2025 report estimated that deliveries for 33 million Americans remained unprotected.
- Twelve percent of U.S. shoppers, or an estimated 31 million Americans, had at least one holiday gift stolen by a porch pirate in 2025.
- Fifteen percent of Americans reported package theft in the past year in a 2025 survey.
- Thirty-four percent of Americans said they used a video doorbell to deter porch pirates in 2025.
- The average value of a stolen package was $268 in the 2025 Vivint survey.
- SafeWise estimated $37 billion in total U.S. economic losses from porch piracy in 2025.
- Eighty-seven percent of surveyed U.S. security-technology users said the technology provided peace of mind beyond crime prevention in 2026.
- The GLF-PTDE package-theft detector achieved 80% AUC on its proposed 2022 benchmark dataset.
Contents
- Key Video Doorbell Statistics
- Video Doorbell Adoption Statistics in U.S. Households
- Video Doorbell Use and Package-Delivery Protection
- Package-Theft Frequency and Video Doorbell Evidence
- Video Doorbell Trends in Delivery Behavior and Holiday Risk
- Video Doorbell Costs and Household Impacts
- Video Doorbell Detection Technology and Measured Performance
Video Doorbell Adoption Statistics in U.S. Households
SafeHome’s 2026 Home Security Market Report gives a household-level view of adoption in the United States. Its 2026 survey covered 2,435 U.S. adults; the figures are survey measures, and the household count is a source-provided estimate rather than a device count.
| Measure | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video doorbells, U.S. households | 37% | 45% | 48% |
| Home-security cameras, U.S. households | 42% | 52% | 61% |
Source: 2026 Home Security Market Report. The 2026 video-doorbell percentage was reported as equivalent to an estimated 58.9 million homes; it should not be read as 58.9 million devices.
The report also describes adoption and intent among housing groups. Security-camera adoption among U.S. renters rose from 42% to 54% in the one-year comparison reported in the 2026 report, while alarm-system adoption among renters stayed at 20% for two consecutive years.
The exact comparison years for the renter camera figures are not stated in the excerpt, and these are related categories rather than video-doorbell-specific measures.
- Among U.S. non-users in the 2026 survey, 22% planned to add or upgrade a video doorbell within the next 12 months.
- Among U.S. homeowners, 19% planned to add or upgrade a video doorbell within the next 12 months.
- Among U.S. renters, 27% planned to add or upgrade a video doorbell within the next 12 months.
These are intentions, not completed purchases, and the report allowed multiple selections. The same survey found that 87% of users said home-security technology provided peace of mind beyond crime prevention and 81% said it made them feel more in control of their homes.
The benefits coexist with privacy concerns. In the 2026 survey, 37% of users worried about who might access their footage, while 23% felt uneasy about how much technology watches their home; both results are self-reported perceptions.
Video Doorbell Use and Package-Delivery Protection
The 2025 Package Theft Report measures prevention behavior among U.S. online shoppers. These percentages are not a direct adoption survey of video-doorbell owners, and multiple responses were allowed.
| Prevention behavior | Share of U.S. online shoppers, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Used a doorbell camera | 34% |
| Scheduled shipments for when they were home | 46% |
| Used an outdoor camera with motion detection or AI | 28% |
| Used in-store pickup | 26% |
| Relied on neighbors to bring packages inside | 17% |
| Used smart or motion-activated lighting | 17% |
| Shipped packages somewhere other than home | 14% |
Source: 2025 Package Theft Report and Statistics. The report says 88% of online shoppers used at least one package-theft prevention strategy, and it estimated that deliveries for 33 million Americans remained unprotected.
The same report estimated that 12% of shoppers, equivalent to 31 million Americans, had at least one holiday gift stolen by a porch pirate. Highly concerned shoppers fell from 28% to 18% between the report’s comparison periods, but the excerpt does not specify the earlier fieldwork date, so that change should not be treated as a precisely dated trend.
A doorbell camera is therefore one element in a wider prevention system. Scheduling delivery, pickup, neighbors, lighting, and alternate delivery locations are related behaviors, not interchangeable measures of camera effectiveness.
Package-Theft Frequency and Video Doorbell Evidence
Vivint’s 2025 Holiday Package Theft Report surveyed 1,000 Americans. It found that 15% reported package theft in the past year, up from 11% in the prior survey wave; these are self-reported survey results, not independently verified incident counts.
- In the 2025 Vivint survey, 34% of Americans said they used a video doorbell to deter porch pirates.
- Among respondents who faced package theft, 39% said it happened during Black Friday.
- Among respondents, 28% said theft forced them to give gifts late, and 27% said it left them unable to give a holiday gift.
- Among package-theft respondents, 47% reported persistent anxiety about future deliveries and 42% said theft eroded their trust in delivery services.
- Sixty-six percent of package-theft respondents were satisfied with how retailers managed their claims.
- Five percent said package theft contributed to a breakup with their partner.
The population changes across these results: the 15% figure covers Americans reporting theft, while several later figures cover respondents affected by theft. A deterrence claim describes use or perception; it does not establish that a video doorbell caused a lower theft rate.
Video Doorbell Trends in Delivery Behavior and Holiday Risk
Package monitoring has become a related part of delivery behavior. Vivint reported in 2025 that 54% of Americans actively tracked packages from dispatch to delivery, while 13% said they felt addicted to package tracking; the latter is a self-described feeling, not a clinical measure.
- Eleven percent of Americans said they were willing to pay extra for AI that identifies and tracks repeat offenders in 2025, measuring willingness rather than actual payment or adoption.
- Among package-theft respondents, 54% said theft affected their ability to give gifts, and 25% said the experience disrupted their sense of holiday joy.
Historical Ring-commissioned surveys show why holiday delivery is a recurring context for doorbell use. In the 2016 holiday season, 68% of U.S. homeowners received more packages than at other times, and a 2017 survey found that 75% considered package theft more of a problem during the holiday season.
The 2017 Ring survey also found that 60% of homeowners were concerned an ordered package would be stolen. These historical figures describe homeowner perceptions and delivery patterns from 2016–2017, not current video-doorbell adoption.
Video Doorbell Costs and Household Impacts
The 2025 Vivint survey put the average value of a stolen package at $268, compared with $134 in the previous year’s comparison. Among people who replaced stolen gifts, the average replacement spending was $114, and 18% said they could not afford to replace the gifts.
SafeWise’s 2025 report estimated $37 billion in total U.S. economic losses from porch piracy. Its methodology combined a broader 7,500-person survey, a 2,500-person package-theft-victim survey, FBI data, and proprietary estimates, so the dollar total is derived rather than a direct national administrative count.
Among SafeWise’s package-theft victims, 30% had a security camera or doorbell installed before the theft, while 24% installed a camera or doorbell afterward. Because the categories combine cameras and doorbells, these figures cannot be relabeled as video-doorbell adoption or proof of prevention.
| Measure among SafeWise package-theft victims | Before theft | After theft |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery tracking | 52% | 40% |
| Signature required | 11% | 23% |
| No deterrents / at least one deterrent | 16% no deterrents | About 82% added at least one |
Source: 2025 U.S. Package Theft Report and Worst Metro Cities for Porch Pirates. The before-and-after percentages are descriptive, not a longitudinal causal estimate, and the report’s post-theft deterrent figure is approximate.
Video Doorbell Detection Technology and Measured Performance
Detection research provides a different kind of statistic from household surveys. The peer-reviewed paper “Package Theft Detection from Smart Home Security Cameras” reported that its GLF-PTDE package-theft detector achieved 80% area under the ROC curve on its newly proposed dataset.
That 80% AUC is a benchmark result for a specific algorithm, task, and smart-home-security-camera dataset. It is not a field-performance rate for consumer video doorbells and does not show that a product prevents theft.
The paper also cites a 2020 package-theft report for contextual figures, but those values are secondary citations rather than the paper’s own experiment:
- The cited report said the stolen-package rate rose from 36% in 2019 to 43% in 2020 among its surveyed respondents.
- The cited 2020 report said 64% of affected respondents had been stolen from more than once.
- It estimated that about 144 million customers were affected and gave an average loss of $106 per household.
Source: Package Theft Detection from Smart Home Security Cameras. The paper’s cited-report figures retain the definitions, sample, and limitations of that underlying report and should not be generalized to all video-doorbell households.
Ring’s 2017 homeowner survey supplies additional historical delivery context. Between November 2016 and November 2017, 19% of U.S. homeowners reported being package-theft victims during the prior year; victims reported an average of 2.6 stolen packages, with an average value of $140 per stolen package.
The same survey found that 73% of homeowners said carriers usually left packages on the front porch, and 50% received packages at home at least once a week. Source: Home Security Research: Package Theft.
Ring’s study was company-commissioned and used 1,001 homeowners, so these figures are historical self-reports rather than current national administrative totals.