Title: What’s the Homicide Capital of America? Murder Rates in U.S. Cities, Ranked.
Headings: What’s the Homicide Capital of America? Murder Rates in U.S. Cities, Ranked.
What’s the Homicide Capital of America? Murder Rates in U.S. Cities, Ranked.
Long-term murder rates are down, despite recent increases
How U.S. cities stack up
The effects of city geography
An ignored crime metric: murder inequality
See how your city stacks up
Murder Rates of Major U.S. Cities

Content: Also no.) Because the vast majority of American homicides are committed with guns, both the national murder rate and the more relevant citywide and neighborhood murder rates — about which, more below — frequently figure into our reporting at The Trace. In this guide, we’ve collected the most up-to-date statistics on murders in America, as well as the critical context that often gets missed. Long-term murder rates are down, despite recent increases
The data is clear: America is a much less murderous place than it once was. Following its peak in the early-’90s, the national murder rate has declined steadily. The rate for big American cities — those with populations greater than 250,000 — follows a similar pattern, though with more dramatic fluctuations. Look closely at the above graphic, and you’ll see a more recent trend that has some crime analysts alarmed: Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate ticked up. That upward trend is attributed to sharp increases in crime in a handful of American cities.