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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.
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
In addition, the city of St. Louis consistently has been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the United States. As of April 2017, St. Louis has the highest murder rate in America. [ 2 ] At the end of 2017, St. Louis metropolitan had 205 murders, 159 of which were within the city limits. [ 3 ]
The city has a crime cost of $7,029 and a City-Data crime index value of 663.2. Find More: 20 Best Cities Where You Can Buy a House for Under $100K Ralph Navarro / Getty Images/iStockphoto
Memphis, Tennessee, and Detroit, Michigan, bottomed out the list as the two most dangerous cities. St. Louis ranked 163rd out of 182 U.S. cities for safety, specifically due to home and community ...
Most were smaller cities: Over half had populations of fewer than 50,000, while only three had more than 100,000 residents. They also tended to be far from major cities.
When this linear assumption does not hold, rates per capita still have population effects. In these nonlinear cases, per capita rates can inflate or deflate the representation of crime in cities, introducing an artifactual bias into rankings. Therefore, it is necessary to test for linearity before comparing crime rates of cities of different sizes.
From 1995 through 2006, City Crime Rankings was published by Lawrence, Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press.The publisher was acquired in June 2007 by CQ Press [2] The 14th annual edition of City Crime Rankings was published in November 2007, and contains over 100 tables and figures detailing crime trends in cities and metropolitan areas across America.