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In 2008 there were 51,376 crimes reported in West Virginia, including 67 murders. [1] West Virginia's ten worst cities statistically to live in are Fairmont, South Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Beckley, Wheeling, Charleston and Huntington with an annual crime rate of 394.
Crime rates per capita might also be biased by population size depending on the crime type. [6] This misrepresentation occurs because rates per capita assume that crime increases at the same pace as the number of people in an area. [7] When this linear assumption does not hold, rates per capita still have population effects.
In cities with at least 100,000 residents, property crime rates are 36% greater than average. At the same time, though, 27% of these 190 cities — including New York — have crime rates that don ...
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Like much of Charleston, the West Side suffers from large tracts of urban decay with 31% of West Side buildings vacant as of 2019 [2] as Charleston overall has lost roughly 45% of its peak population and is part of the Rust Belt. Over 40% of children on the West Side are living in poverty, [3] more than double the national average (17.5%). [4]
Maple Terrace Court and Walton Apartments is a group of historic dwellings located at Charleston, West Virginia.Maple Terrace Court is a row of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick urban townhouses built in 1914 in the Colonial Revival-style with each two-bay residential units featuring slate-shingled gable roofs with gabled dormers, concrete foundations scored to resemble cut stone, and brick front porches.