Ages 12-34 are the highest risk years for rape and sexual assault. Source: RAINN  ​ About 10% of high school students were sexually assaulted in 2017, with females (15 %) experiencing higher rates than males (4.3%) Source: CDC's 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey  ​ 51% of the sexual assault cases studied in the Women's Safety Project survey were committed against young women between 16 and 21 years old. Source: Randall, Melanie and Haskell, Lori. 1995. "Sexual Violence in Women's Lives; Findings from the Women's Safety Project, A Community-Based Survey."  ​ According to the results of the National Survey of Adolescents, 8% of the sample (n=4,023) reported having been victims of sexual assault. 74% of these sexual assault victims indicated that they had been assaulted by someone they knew well, 32% were friends, 21% were family members, 23% were strangers. Nearly 31% of these sexual assaults occurred in the victim's home or in the victim's neighborhood (24%), another 15% occurred at the victim's school, Source: Kilpatrick, D.G., Saunders, B.E., and Smith, D.W. (2003). Youth Victimization: Prevalence and Implications. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice  10.5% of all high school-age girls have been sexually assaulted. Source: U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention 2012  ​ Only 13% of the sexual assault cases disclosed in the National Survey of Adolescents were reported to police, 6% to child protective services, 5% to school authorities, and 1.3% to other authorities. 86% of the sexual assaults went unreported. Source: Hoff, T., Greene, L. & Davis, J. (2003). National survey of adolescents: Sexual health knowledge, attitudes, and experiences.  ​ One in five women in the United States experienced completed or attempted rape during their lifetime. Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center  ​ Nearly a quarter (24.8%) of men in the U.S. experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime. (nsvrc.org) Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center   Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. Source; National Sexual violence Resource Center  ​ One in three female victims of completed or attempted rape experienced it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17. Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center  ​ About one in four male victims of completed or attempted rape first experienced it between the ages of 11 and 17. Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center  ​ It is estimated that 734,630 people were raped (including threatened, attempted, or completed rape) in the U.S. in 2018. Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center  ​ Forty percent of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2017, but only about 25% were reported to police in 2018. Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center  ​ About half (51.1%) of female victims of rape reported being raped by an intimate partner and 40.8% by an acquaintance. Source: National Sexual violence Resource Center