In 1991, 17,021 crime index offenses were reported by local law enforcement agencies, the same number of crime index offenses reported in 1990. Crime index offenses are murder/non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny/theft, and motor vehicle theft. The Census Bureau estimate of North Dakota's population in 1991 was 635,000. The index crime rate per 100,000 population for 1991 was 2,680.5. Population in 1990 was estimated to be 638,800. Although the same number of index offenses were reported in 1990 and 1991, the decrease in State population resulted in an increase in the index crime rate of 0.6 percent. The total number of reported violent index crimes was 401; this was an increase of 9.9 percent from the total of 365 reported in 1990. In 1989, 414 violent index crimes were reported. Violent crime accounted for 2 percent of total index crimes reported in 1991. Collectively, property crimes (burglary, larceny/theft, motor vehicle theft) decreased 0.2 percent from 16,656 offenses in 1990 to 16,620 reported in 1991. Ninety-eight percent of index crimes reported in North Dakota were property crimes. The 13,543 larceny/thefts reported in 1991 accounted for nearly 80 percent of total index crimes. Over 8.4 million dollars worth of property was reported lost to crime in 1991, with 32 percent of that amount reported as recovered by law enforcement officials. 14 tables and 16 figures