As a persons who investigates missing persons cases on the daily, it seems there are indefinite unsolved cases out there.
In actuality, the number of active missing persons cases, at least in the United States, has decreased year over year. In fact, 2020 saw the lowest number of missing persons since 1990. A positive trend that hopefully will continue.
So, I wondered…which states have the most missing persons? This number can be looked at a couple of different ways.
- Number of total unsolved missing persons cases.
- Number of total unsolved missing persons cases per capita (based on population).
Let’s look at the first statistic first. Here is the numerical statistical data from World Population Review giving us the total number of reported missing persons:
California: 2133
Florida: 1252
Texas: 1246
Arizona: 915
Washington: 643
New York: 606
Michigan: 556
Oregon: 432
Pennsylvania: 401
Tennessee: 361
Ohio: 358
North Carolina: 327
Illinois: 317
Missouri: 316
Alaska: 309
