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National Youth Gang Survey Analysis

Prevalence of Youth Gang Problems

Respondents provided information regarding the presence or absence of active youth gangs in their jurisdictions.

  • Twenty-nine percent of the jurisdictions that city (populations of 2,500 or more) and county law enforcement agencies serve experienced youth gang problems in 2004.
  • Gang problems are highly prevalent in larger cities; specifically, 99 percent of law enforcement agencies serving cities with populations of 100,000 or more have reported multiple years of gang problems.
  • Gang problem prevalence rates in suburban and rural counties and smaller cities declined yearly from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s.
  • Approximately half as many rural counties reported gang problems in 2005 compared with 1996.

The line chart is entitled “Gang-Problem Rate, 1996–2005.” Displayed horizontally are years 1996 to 2005 and displayed vertically are percentages from 0 to 100. The four area types—larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties—are presented as the data points. The heading entitled “Prevalence of Youth Gang Problems” includes bullet points which describe the trends of this line chart.

Notes: The observed changes in the percentage of agencies in small cities and rural counties reporting gang problems between 2002 and 2005 are within the range attributable to sample error. Thus they do not definitively indicate actual change.

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Suggested citation: National Youth Gang Center (2007). National Youth Gang Survey Analysis. Retrieved [date] from http://www.iir.com/nygc/nygsa/