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Intimate Partner Violence Homicide Rate Estimator

This tool estimates how often intimate partner violence turns fatal — specifically, the number of IPV homicides per 100,000 people who are experiencing intimate partner violence, for a given state or Texas county. It uses the same rate formula the FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics use for general homicide rates, but narrows the denominator to the population of IPV victims rather than the population at large, so the result speaks directly to risk within that group.

Adult population and IPV prevalence come from the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS); homicide counts come from the Texas Council on Family Violence's Honoring Texas Victims report where available, or must be sourced and entered by hand elsewhere. Every figure the tool fills in automatically shows its source, so the estimate stays transparent and citable.

Built for grant writing, public-education, and advocacy use at One Safe Place. Not a substitute for official vital-statistics or NIBRS-based crime rates.

1Jurisdiction

Auto-fills adult population and prevalence from the CDC's 2023/2024 NISVS. Texas also auto-fills homicide counts.

2Adult population & prevalence (all adults)

3IPV homicides

Source

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For jurisdictions or years without a published source: FBI Crime Data Explorer (victim–offender relationship = intimate partner), a state domestic violence fatality review board, CDC WISQARS/NVDRS, or the Violence Policy Center's When Men Murder Women report.
Estimated IPV homicide rate
—per 100,000 IPV victims
Fill in the fields on the left to calculate an estimate.
Jurisdiction—
Adult population—
Est. IPV victim population—
IPV homicides—
Homicide source—
Compared with the US general rate
5.9
per 100,000 people (2023, all homicides)
Methodology, data sources & limitations

Formula

IPV homicide rate = (IPV homicides in a calendar year ÷ estimated IPV victim population) × 100,000 — the FBI/BJS convention for general homicide rates, applied to a narrower denominator. This tool models all adults combined rather than splitting results by sex.

Zero-count logic for Texas counties

TCFV's Honoring Texas Victims report states how many of Texas's 254 counties had at least one IPV homicide (42 in 2024, 64 in 2023) and lists only those counties by name. A county's absence from that year's table is treated here as zero — clearly labeled as inferred from its absence, not confused with missing data. This inference only applies to 2023 and 2024, the two years TCFV published a full county breakdown.

Where the numbers come from

  • State-level prevalence and population: CDC NISVS, 2023/2024 data collection (published February 2026). NISVS defines IPV as contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by a current or former intimate partner. Auto-filled population is back-calculated from NISVS's own published victim counts and percentages.
  • Texas county adult population: each county's 2024 total population (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimate) × 75.4%, the statewide adult share. This is an approximation, not a county-specific adult count.
  • Texas county prevalence rate: the statewide Texas combined NISVS rate, used as a stand-in since NISVS doesn't survey below the state level.
  • Homicide counts: Texas Council on Family Violence, Honoring Texas Victims, state and county tables for 2023 and 2024. TCFV reports these figures as intimate partner victims specifically, separately from family members, friends, and bystanders killed in the same incidents — so the counts used here exclude that broader group.

Standard for adding a new state or jurisdiction

Before any additional state's homicide count is wired in as an auto-filled figure, it needs to clear the same bar Texas did: a named, dated primary source (not a secondhand news summary); a clear, stated definition of who's counted; and confirmation that the figure counts intimate partner victims specifically. Reports that combine IPV victims with family members, bystanders, or responding parties killed in the same incident overstate the IPV victim count and would understate the true rate if used as-is — those figures either need to be excluded or their victim-only subset isolated before use.

Known limitations

  • NISVS is a self-report survey with margins of error, especially for smaller states and for men.
  • County and city prevalence isn't measured directly by any survey; using a state or national rate as a stand-in assumes local prevalence resembles that average, which may not hold.
  • TCFV's counts include stalking homicides alongside intimate partner homicides, and homicide classification practices differ across FBI/NIBRS, medical examiners, and advocacy datasets.
  • This is a modeled ratio for planning and advocacy context, not a certified vital-statistics or UCR/NIBRS rate.

National reference point (2023, BJS/FBI)

Overall U.S. homicide rate: 5.9 per 100,000 people. This is a general-population rate, not IPV-specific, shown only for scale.

Adult population and prevalence figures are pre-loaded from published NISVS and Census data and are not re-fetched live. Homicide counts are auto-filled only where TCFV published a figure, and are always labeled with their source — including when a count is inferred as zero, or entered manually because no public data exists.