As recently as 2020, the Ford F-150 was the most stolen vehicle in America. Now, it’s far from even being the most stolen truck. During 2024, nearly twice as many Chevrolet Silverado 1500s were stolen as Ford F-150s. And that’s not even adding in the mechanically-identical GMC Sierra 1500 to The Silverado’s tally. Here’s the full lineup of 2024’s car thefts by vehicle.

The Ford F-150 was the most stolen pickup truck in America in 2019 and 2020. According to CarScoops, the NICB used to lump entire pickup truck series together for theft data. So F-150s and Super Duty Fords were one “model” while the Silverado 1500 through Silverado Heavy Duty was another model. The Silverado lineup had 48,026 individual vehicles stolen in 2021. That means it just beat out Ford which had 47,999 full-size trucks stolen. All-told, General Motors and Ford pickup trucks made up for 14% of all vehicle theft in the USA.

Fast-forward to 2023 and Chevy’s Silverado 1500 was the most stolen truck in the US. There were 23,721. But that number is just for the half-ton 1500, so we have no way to tell how it relates to the 2021 number. The same year, just 15,749 Ford F-150s were stolen.

By 2024, the numbers diverged further. There were 21,666 Silverado 1500s stolen. Meanwhile, 12,952, Ford F-150s were stolen.

The Ford F-150 hasn’t been the most-stolen car in America for five years

So what happened? Did Ford upgrade the F-150s security tech and make them so difficult to steal that thieves gave up? Or did the trend ow what cars to steal change? The NICB hasn’t offered much more analysis than just these raw numbers.

What we do know is that the Ford F-150 series is still the most popular stolen vehicle in Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.