Motor vehicles were stolen at a rate of 246.0 per 100,000 people in 2020, the highest rate since 2009, when the rate was 259.2. In 2020, the number of vehicles stolen was up 11.8 percent from 724,872 in 2019. In 2020, 810,400 vehicles were stolen, the highest annual number of vehicles stolen since 2008, when 959,059 vehicles were stolen.
The average dollar loss per theft was $9,166. The FBI reports that $7.4 billion was lost to motor vehicle theft in 2020. The FBI includes the theft or attempted theft of automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, scooters, snowmobiles and other vehicles in its definition of motor vehicle theft.
