Statistics

General

In 2015, only 32% of sexual assaults were reported to the police.
From 2006 to 2015, 28% of rape and sexual assault victimizations were classified as completed rape. Attempted rape or other sexual assault accounted for nearly 50%, and 17% were verbal threats of rape.

Children

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18.
34% of people who sexually abuse a child are family members.
3% of women and 27.8% of men were age 10 or younger at the time of their first rape/victimization. 30% of women were between the ages of 11 and 17
More than one-third of women who report being raped before age 18 also experience rape as an adult.

Members of the LGBTQIA Community

46 percent of bisexual women have been raped, compared to 17 percent of heterosexual women and 13 percent of lesbians
40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual violence other than rape, compared to 21 percent of heterosexual men
Reported prevalence of sexual assault as a hate crime ranged from 1% to 12% for women who identified as lesbian or bisexual, and from 3% to 20% for men who identified as gay or bisexual.

Individuals with Disabilities

An estimated 14% of the unincarcerated U.S. population age 12 or older had a disability.
34,750 Americans with disabilities were sexually assaulted in 2010.

College Students

Incidence of sexual assault was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents (7.6 per 1,000) than for students (6.1 per 1,000) in the 18-24 age group.
Rape and sexual assault victimizations of students (80%) were more likely than nonstudent victimizations (67%) to go unreported to police.
Fewer than 1 in 5 female student (16%) survivors of sexual assault received assistance from a victim services agency.

Incarcerated Individuals

In 2011-12, an estimated 4.0% of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12 months
2.0% of prison inmates (or an estimated 29,300 prisoners) reported an incident involving another inmate, 2.4% (34,100) reported an incident involving facility staff, and 0.4% (5,500) reported both an incident by another inmate and staff.
6.3% of prison inmates with mental illness reported being sexually assaulted by another inmate. In comparison, among prisoners with no indication of mental illness, 0.7% reported being victimized by another inmate