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: Writing for The Trace, Hertz stressed that looking at smaller geographical areas paints a more accurate picture of the relative threat of violence that individual Americans face and can make prevention strategies more effective. In 2016, five police districts overseeing only 8 percent of Chicago’s population recorded around 32 percent of its murders. Two Chicago neighborhoods, Burnside and Fuller Park, counted a rate of more than 100 killings per 100,000 people. People living in them were nine times more likely to be shot in their neighborhood than in the city’s safest quarters. “Just like income, education and other metrics of social advantage, violent gun crime varies even more within American cities than between them,” Hertz wrote. The problem of murder inequality is not unique to Chicago. In St. Louis, most killings are concentrated in neighborhoods like Greater Ville and the adjacent JeffVanderLou, which sit just a few miles from the city’s downtown. The same disparities exist for gun violence overall. Forty percent of non-fatal shooting incidents in 2017 occurred in only 10 of St. Louis’s 88 neighborhoods, according to police data. The effects of city geography
A city’s borders can have a dramatic effect on its murder rate.