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Roxbury is 4% more densely populated than Boston as a whole. [44] The annual crime rate has gone down by 4% in 2016. [45] The median household income is $34,616 and the unemployment rate is 8.9%. [46] 1/4 of the Roxbury population was born in another country. [47] 42% of the population is 25 years old or younger. [48]
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.
The Orchard Park Trailblazers is a street gang in the Roxbury area of Boston. The gang was mostly active in the early 1990s and became infamous for violence. [1] They are bitter rivals of the Columbia Point Dawgs. Both gangs have been feuding on the streets of Boston for nearly 30 years. [2]
The Roxbury murders also known as “The Stride Rite Murders” (because the first two victims were discovered dismembered in their plastic trash bags) occurred between January and May 1979 when eleven Black women and one White woman were murdered within several miles of one another in the Roxbury neighborhood on the south side of Boston, Massachusetts.
Orchard Park, also known as "Home of New Edition," was one of Boston's most notorious housing projects, located in Roxbury, Massachusetts. It is also the former home of singer Bobby Brown and New Edition members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ralph Tresvant. The 350-unit three-story brick complex was built in 1941 and was demolished in 1998 due ...
The charges stem from the Oct. 18 shooting at the motel on Route 46 in Roxbury. Township police arriving at the scene found a 36-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg and took him to an ...
In the early 1990s, Dorchester, along with Roxbury and Mattapan, had the highest percentage of victims with violence-related injuries. Since the early 2000s, crime rates across Boston have declined. In the first three months of 2013, Boston crime rates reportedly dropped 15% compared to the same time period in 2012. [89]
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