Home security data spans household victimization, police-reported offenses, device adoption, monitoring, perceived safety, and business scale. The figures below focus mainly on the United States and identify whether each measure is an estimate, survey result, company report, or observed law-enforcement statistic.
Key Home Security Statistics
The most useful headline figures are:
- In 2023, U.S. households experienced about 13.6 million property victimizations.
- In 2023, the U.S. household property-victimization rate was 102.2 per 1,000 households.
- In 2023, about 10,221,830 U.S. households experienced at least one property crime.
- In 2023, 7.66% of U.S. households experienced any property crime.
- In 2023, the burglary-or-trespassing rate was 13.1 per 1,000 U.S. households.
- In 2023, about 905,000 U.S. households experienced burglary.
- In 2024, the FBI estimated 779,542 burglaries in the United States.
- From 2023 to 2024, estimated U.S. burglaries fell 8.6%.
- In 2023, about 749,950 U.S. households experienced motor vehicle theft.
- From 2019 to 2023, the household motor-vehicle-theft rate rose from 3.9 to 6.1 per 1,000 households.
- In 2023, about 8,574,200 U.S. households experienced other household theft.
- In 2024 research released by Parks Associates, 32% of U.S. households had a paid security service.
- In the same Parks Associates research, 22% of U.S. households had a networked camera.
- In February 2026, 18% of U.S. adults reported having an AI-enabled smart doorbell.
- In 2020, 60% of surveyed U.S. broadband households felt safe enough with only a professionally monitored system.
- At December 31, 2024, ADT served approximately 6.4 million security-monitoring subscribers.
- In 2024, the FBI reported a 15.9% property-crime clearance rate.
- In 2024, ADT reported $4.898 billion in total revenue.
Contents
- The scale of household property crime
- Burglary and trespassing trends
- Motor vehicle theft and other household theft
- Security system, camera, and doorbell adoption
- Professional monitoring, DIY security, and perceived safety
- Home security outcomes, clearances, and market scale
Home Security Statistics: The Scale of Household Property Crime
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures crimes reported and not reported to police, while FBI UCR figures measure crimes known to or reported to law enforcement. Those systems answer different questions and should not be treated as interchangeable.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Criminal Victimization, 2023, U.S. households experienced about 13.6 million property victimizations in 2023, an NCVS estimate covering burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other household theft.
| NCVS household property measure | Period | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Property-victimization rate | 2019 | 99.7 per 1,000 households |
| Property-victimization rate | 2022 | 102.2 per 1,000 households |
| Property-victimization rate | 2023 | 102.2 per 1,000 households |
| Households experiencing any property crime | 2023 | About 10,221,830 |
| Household prevalence of any property crime | 2023 | 7.66% |
BJS described the 2022-to-2023 rate difference as stable. The prevalence estimates are household measures, and a household can experience multiple crime types, so category totals do not necessarily add cleanly.
The NCVS estimated that 7.66% of U.S. households experienced any property crime in 2023, compared with 7.10% in 2020, 6.81% in 2021, and 7.61% in 2022. Separately, the FBI estimated 5,986,400 property-crime offenses in 2024 in its UCR Summary of Reported Crimes in the Nation, 2024; that is a reported-crime estimate, not an NCVS household-victimization count.
Burglary and Trespassing Trends in Home Security Data
Burglary and trespassing are combined in one NCVS category, while FBI UCR burglary figures count reported offenses. The distinction matters when comparing household experience with police-recorded crime.
The BJS NCVS estimate for burglary or trespassing was 13.1 victimizations per 1,000 households in 2023, down from 17.2 per 1,000 in 2019. About 1,343,180 households, or 1.01% of U.S. households, experienced burglary or trespassing in 2023.
Burglary alone affected about 905,000 households, or 0.68% of U.S. households, in 2023, compared with about 1,182,420 households in 2019. These are NCVS prevalence estimates, not counts of police-recorded offenses.
The FBI’s 2024 UCR estimate was 779,542 burglaries in the United States. Estimated burglaries fell 8.6% from 2023 to 2024, were 23.5% below the 2020 level, and were 50.5% below the 2015 level.
| FBI UCR burglary detail | 2024 result | Definition or limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Residential properties’ share of burglary offenses | 52.1% | Based on reported offense data |
| Forcible entry | 55.4% | Burglary subcategory |
| Unlawful entry | 37.9% | Burglary subcategory |
| Attempted forcible entry | 6.7% | Burglary subcategory |
The residential-property share and entry-method percentages come from FBI UCR data. They describe reported offense classifications and do not establish that a particular camera, alarm, or monitoring service caused the reported trend.
Motor Vehicle Theft and Other Household Theft Statistics
Motor vehicle theft was the only NCVS category here with a clear increase in its household rate between 2019 and 2023. The rate rose from 3.9 to 6.1 victimizations per 1,000 households, while about 749,950 households, or 0.56% of U.S. households, experienced motor vehicle theft in 2023.
For comparison, about 467,950 households experienced motor vehicle theft in 2019. The NCVS measure is a household prevalence estimate and includes crimes reported and not reported to police.
Other household theft affected about 8,574,200 U.S. households in 2023, or 6.43% of households. This category excludes burglary or trespassing and motor vehicle theft.
The FBI estimated 5.5% fewer larceny-theft offenses and 18.6% fewer motor vehicle theft offenses in 2024 than in 2023. In a same-agency comparison, reported automobile thefts fell from 829,425 in 2023 to 657,411 in 2024; truck and bus thefts fell from 124,114 to 99,065, and other-vehicle thefts fell from 67,656 to 61,047.
The same-agency figures are observed reports from the agencies included in the FBI comparison, not the national estimate. They should therefore be read alongside, rather than substituted for, the FBI’s national estimated percentage changes.
Security System, Camera, and Video Doorbell Adoption
Parks Associates’ 2024 research release used different denominators for household security products and services. Its all-household figures are not directly comparable with the internet-household composite measure.
| Adoption measure | Population | Reported share |
|---|---|---|
| Paid security service | U.S. households | 32% |
| Paid service attached to a security system | U.S. households | 25% |
| Paid service attached to standalone security devices | U.S. households | 7% |
| Networked camera | U.S. households | 22% |
| Video doorbell | U.S. households | 20% |
| Systems, video doorbells, and smart cameras without systems combined | U.S. internet households | 42% |
The Parks Associates research release reports these survey estimates. The release does not state a national probability sample, and owning a device is not the same as subscribing to a paid service.
Pew Research Center’s February 2026 device chart measured AI-enabled smart doorbells specifically. From February 17–23, 2026, 18% of U.S. adults reported having one, including 23% of adults ages 30–49 and 14% of adults age 65 or older.
These Pew figures do not measure all video doorbells. They identify a narrower AI-enabled-device category and therefore should not be compared directly with Parks Associates’ broader video-doorbell ownership figure.
Professional Monitoring, DIY Security, and Perceived Safety
Security adoption data can describe ownership or subscriptions, while safety-perception research describes how people feel about a setup. Neither measure alone establishes a causal reduction in crime.
In 2020, Parks Associates reported that 60% of surveyed U.S. broadband households felt safe enough with only a professionally monitored home security system. The corresponding share for only a self-monitored system was 55%, a 5-percentage-point difference between the two reported survey results.
The Parks Associates safety-perception release describes “safe enough” as a perception. It does not measure crime reduction or prove that professional monitoring caused the difference.
ADT’s company-reported scale provides one view of professional monitoring. At December 31, 2024, ADT served approximately 6.4 million security-monitoring subscribers, operated six U.S. monitoring centers, and had approximately 140 authorized dealers operating across the United States.
The figures come from ADT’s 2024 Form 10-K. They describe one provider and its dealer network, not the entire professional-monitoring market.
Home Security Outcomes, Clearances, and Market Scale
A clearance means an offense was cleared by arrest or exceptional means; it is not a measure of whether security technology caused an investigation to succeed. The FBI reported a 15.9% property-crime clearance rate in 2024, compared with a 43.8% violent-crime clearance rate, and about 7.5% of cleared property-crime offenses involved only juvenile offenders.
Broader law-enforcement estimates also need careful labeling. The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2023 reported that the NIBRS-estimated property-offense rate fell from 2,085.6 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2,015.2 in 2023.
| NIBRS estimate | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Property-offense rate | 2,085.6 per 100,000 persons | 2,015.2 per 100,000 persons |
| Violent-offense rate | 407.3 per 100,000 persons | 387.8 per 100,000 persons |
| Violent-victimization rate | — | 395.2 per 100,000 persons |
The NIBRS figures cover offenses reported to law enforcement. The violent-offense and violent-victimization rates provide broader safety context rather than a direct home-security or property-crime outcome.
ADT’s financial reporting illustrates the scale of one major provider. Its monitoring and related-services revenue was $4.293 billion in 2024, and its company-defined recurring monthly revenue was $4.177 billion.
| ADT total revenue | Reported amount |
|---|---|
| 2022 | $4.382 billion |
| 2023 | $4.653 billion |
| 2024 | $4.898 billion |
These are ADT company figures, not estimates of total U.S. home-security-market revenue. Taken together with the adoption and crime measures above, they show why “home security statistics” must be separated into household experience, reported offenses, technology use, perceptions, outcomes, and provider scale.