Below is a list, based on FBI research, indicating where home break-ins occur:

 

34% Front Door
23% First-Floor Window
22% Back Door
9%   Garage
4%   Basement
4%   Unlocked Entrance
2%   Second Floor
2%   Storage Area

 

Due to the unique protection afforded by a monitored alarm system, it is not surprising that the FBI statistics reveal that a home without a monitored security system is 3 times more likely to be burglarized, and that a business without a monitored security system is 4.5 times more likely to be burglarized.

Home Break-In Statistics

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Home Wiring Solutions

1 out of every 5 homes will have a burglary, fire or carbon monoxide poisoning over the next 6 years.⁵

9 out of 10 convicted burglars agreed that they would avoid a house protected by an alarm system.⁴

A Home Wiring Solutions system makes your home 3 times less likely to be burglarized.²

Fire kills more Americans than all natural disasters combined.¹

1 out of every 3 homes will have a medical emergency this year³

 

 

1 National Fire Protection Association, Fire Loss in the U.S., 2001; National Fire Protection Association, US Fire Problem, 2001; and National Fire Data Center, Fire in the United States, 1989-1998, 12th ed.

2 National Burglar and Fire Association, 2000.

3 National Center for Health Statistics, 1999
4 US Department of Justice, 1999

5 US Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the US, 1999.