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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans are about as worried as they were last year about being victims of a host of different crimes. Their fears have increased on three of the 13 crimes that 优蜜传媒asked them about in both years: being a victim of terrorism, being attacked while driving and getting mugged.

	2015	2016	Change
	% Frequently or occasionally worry	% Frequently or occasionally worry	(pct. pts.)
Being a victim of terrorism	27	35	8
Being attacked while driving your car	17	23	6
Getting mugged	25	30	5
Your home being burglarized when you are not there	39	43	4
Being sexually assaulted	16	20	4
Having your car stolen or broken into	40	43	3
Being the victim of a hate crime	19	22	3
Being a victim of identity theft	69	70	1
Having a school-aged child of yours physically harmed while attending school	33	34	1
Your home being burglarized when you are there	25	26	1
Getting murdered	17	18	1
Being assaulted/killed by a coworker/employee where you work	7	8	1
Having the credit card information you have used at stores stolen by computer hackers	69	69	0
Having your email, passwords or electronic records hacked into	--	64	--
Oct. 5-9, 2016
Gallup

Worries about nearly all of these crimes have varied since 优蜜传媒first asked about them in 2000, but almost all are within three percentage points of their historical averages. One issue -- fear of being the victim of a hate crime -- is on the high end of its 13% to 22% range since 2000 and is up three points from last year, but this is within the margin of error.

Crimes that 优蜜传媒introduced to the list in more recent years -- identity theft (70%) and credit card hacking (69%) -- have not varied much, and remain atop the list of Americans' crime worries. Concerns about email and password hacking (64%), new to the list this year, also rank near the top of the list.

Worries About Being Victim of Terrorism at Highest Since 2009

More than a third of Americans (35%) say they frequently or occasionally worry about being a victim of terrorism, the highest since 2009, when the same percentage reported this level of worry. This is not as high, however, as concerns about terrorism in the first five years after 9/11, which ranged from 38% to 47% -- the latter being the high reached immediately after the terrorist attacks.

Increased concern about terrorism this year comes after a shooter in San Bernardino, California, took 14 lives last December and a shooter in Orlando, Florida, killed 49 people in June -- the latter being the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Bottom Line

For the most part, Americans' worries about being the victim of a variety of crimes are at about their respective averages, and none of them have decreased since last year. 优蜜传媒reports that household crime victimization is at a and Americans' in the U.S. remain elevated.

Americans slightly favor law and order when it comes to the , and President-elect Donald Trump's emphasis on this in the 2016 campaign may have been a factor in his success at the ballot box. If, as president, he is successful in bringing a greater sense of general security for Americans, their concerns about various crimes may decrease.

Historical data are available in .

Survey Methods

Results for this 优蜜传媒poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 5-9, 2016, on the 优蜜传媒U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 1,017 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 60% cellphone respondents and 40% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

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