April 21, 2026 - When adjusted for population, Cook County’s 13.9 homicides per 100,000 people ranked 13th among 62 large-central metro US counties with reliable data, and Los Angeles County’s 5.8 ranked 38th. Subscribe for data-driven insights. No spin, just the facts. Large cities whose home counties had the highest homicide rates in 2024:

May 21, 2026 - According to WFYI’s report I mentioned, the numerator is 133 murders. The resulting estimate is 14.9189, which rounds to 14.9 per 100,000. Indy is one of those cities where Reddit and reality line up cleanly.

1 week ago - The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2024 for the 200 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end. The number of murders ...

December 6, 2025 - The data for this visualization comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via USAFacts. New Orleans tops the list with 46 homicides per 100,000 people, followed closely by Memphis at 41.

Jackson Mississippi tops this list with 100 homicides per 100000 people yet is left off the top 30 cities altogether.

2 weeks ago - But in some cities, violent crime remains far above average. Memphis once again tops the list, with a violent crime rate nearly six times the national figure. Detroit and Baltimore also have rates more than triple the U.S. average.

2 weeks ago - Shreveport is the third Louisiana city in the ten cities with the highest murder rates and ranks eighth. Shreveport has a murder rate of about 18.3 murders per 100,000 people for a total of 42 murders.

December 30, 2025 - Large cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston record high total homicides due to larger populations, but their homicide rates are lower than those found in other cities. Across the United States, there were 22,830 homicides in 2023, ...

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April 2, 2026 - Ohio places six cities in the top half of the murder ranking. Cleveland (30.05) and Dayton (29.66) are both statistical outliers, with murder rates more than three times the dataset median.

March 11, 2026 - Baton Rouge rounds out the list of cities with the highest rates. Its homicide statistic is approximately 0.28 per 1,000 people. This reflects a serious public safety crisis for the community.

March 23, 2026 - Direct Answer: New Orleans has the highest homicide rate in America at 46 per 100,000 people, despite ranking fifth in overall violent crime. According to CDC data analyzed by SafeSound, New Orleans leads all major cities in murders per capita.

September 3, 2025 - Trump’s threats and orders are ... power in America’s major cities, while spurring a debate over which cities and states are facing the biggest crime problems. Many local Democratic elected officials have said crime is decreasing, while Trump and other federal officials have accused them of falsifying crime data. Below are 10 cities with the highest murder rate per 100,000: Jackson is one of six cities in red states to rank in the top ...

cities, Chicago has consistently had the highest homicide rate for the past seven years. Following the · trend of past years, New York City had the lowest homicide rate within our population category. New ... York City also has one of the lowest homicide rates in our sample, sitting at spot ...

August 13, 2025 - Baltimore and Chicago—both mentioned by Trump as possible targets—feature in the map as cities with the second and tenth highest homicide rates, respectively, while Washington D.C. comes in at 19th.

October 1, 2025 - In 2024, Memphis, Tennessee recorded the highest murder rate among America's largest cities, overtaking Baltimore, which had topped the list in 2023. This shift reflects Memphis's ongoing struggle with systemic violence.

2 weeks ago - Crime rate can be one of the deciding factors of where families settle down. Based on each city's murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people, determined by FBI crime reports, these are the most dangerous places to live in the United States. For more information on how we rank, read the Best Places to Live methodology.

September 3, 2025 - There were about 17.5 murders for every 100,000 people living in Chicago in 2024, according to the FBI report, which does not account for every city in the U.S. In total, 22 major cities have higher rates of murder, with Birmingham, Alabama topping ...

November 15, 2025 - USAFacts’ county‑level approach ... reporting and datasets, St. Louis consistently appears as the highest or among the highest murder‑rate cities, with other frequent entrants including Baltimore, New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit and Cleveland [1] [7] [2]. Local and analysts’ ...

March 24, 2026 - This study updates and supplements previous U.S. crime trends reports by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) with data through December 2025. It examines yearly and monthly rates of 13 violent, property, and drug offenses reported to police in 40 large American cities that have consistently reported monthly data over the past eight years.