4 million out of 120 million homes are invaded per year in the US (population about 320 million).

A household member is present in about 25%, 10% of the time the burglar is armed, and in 15% of the cases where someone is home, they are assaulted.

More than half of the people committing the burglary are addicted to drugs.

I have lived in upper-middle class neighborhoods the majority of my life, and about half of all homes in the neighborhood have been burglarized. When I lived in a lower-middle class area, it was roughly the same.

Throughout your entire life, there's an extremely high chance your home will be burglarized at some point in any city in the US. There's a decent chance you could be home when they break in. When living in an upper-middle class neighborhood, someone broke into my home at 2am when I was fourteen years old. I didn't know what the noise was, was naive, so I went out into the living room where I saw them bolt back out of the house. That could have gone much worse. Scared the shit out of me. Father's truck was broken into three times over the course of 10 years. Another time, a person fleeing on foot ran through my back yard and left their muddy jacket in it. I've also been physically attacked by someone who had road rage, before I was old enough to carry a gun.

There's a reason I park my cars exclusively in the garage, don't advertise wealth outside my home, don't brag about wealth to acquaintances and never have my street-facing shutters/windows open and never, ever tell anyone but close relations I'll be gone on vacation for a bit - no one has any idea what times I'm home or gone, or if there's anything of any value inside. I sleep safely with a gun within arm's reach and carry concealed at all times that it's legally permissible.

There are two types of people in the world: those who have experienced physical violence or the imminent threat of it, and those who think this is a world full of daisies where the police will protect you from everything. The police show up after everything has happened to question you and try to track the person down, they don't stop them in the act, and in my experiences, they have never, not once, ever caught the perpetrator - even when I provided them with the license plate of the person who battered me. If you go through life betting on the odds that nothing will happen to you, you'll either become a statistic or live your life blissfully lucky and ignorant.