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v • d • e United States Crime Rates By City 250,000 and Above - 100,000 to 250,000 - 60,000 to 100,000 - 40,000 to 60,000

The following table is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports statistics that initially became available in September 2008. The numbers are FBI 2007 statistic site and is downloadable in Excel format. The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end. The number of murders includes nonnegligent manslaughter. This list is based on the reporting agency. In most cases the city and the reporting agency are identical. However, in some cases such as Charlotte, Honolulu and Las Vegas, the reporting agency as more than one city.

The FBI, on its web site, recommends against using its data as a ranking for a variety of reasons and does not rank the crime rates for cities.^[1] In November 2007, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) approved a resolution opposing the development of city crime rankings from FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs). The resolution states the rankings "represent an irresponsible misuse of the data and do groundless harm to many communities" and "work against a key goal of our society, which is a better understanding of crime-related issues by both scientists and the public".^[2]

Murder is the only statistic that all agencies are required to report. Consequently some agencies do not report all the crimes. If components are missing the total is adjusted to "0."

[edit] Note about population

Data are voluntarily submitted by each jurisdiction and some jurisdictions do not appear in the table because they either did not submit data or they did not meet deadlines.

According to the FBI website has this disclaimer on population estimates:

For the 2007 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2006 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency's rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2006 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2007 population estimate ^[3]

[edit] 2007 Data

Rates are based on cases per 100,000 for all of calendar 2007.

City	State	Population	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny-theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson
Foo	Foo	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Albuquerque	New Mexico	513,124	990	9	60	280	641	5,709	1,096	3,631	982	18
Anaheim	California	335,133	425	5	29	173	218	2,625	545	1,699	381	12
Anchorage	Alaska	284,142	846	8	90	159	589	3,909	512	2,955	442	51
Arlington	Texas	372,073	696	3	42	199	451	5,665	1,195	4,029	441	17
Atlanta	Georgia	497,290	1,624	26	30	719	849	7,286	1,781	4,093	1,412	31
Aurora	Colorado	307,621	548	5	62	190	292	3,833	754	2,519	559	27
Austin	Texas	716,817	540	4	46	203	287	6,341	1,120	4,808	413	16
Bakersfield	California	318,743	615	5	13	197	400	5,038	1,110	3,091	837	29
Baltimore	Maryland	624,237	1,631	45	23	624	939	4,796	1,182	2,682	932	65
Boston	Massachusetts	591,855	1,155	11	44	379	721	4,153	644	2,932	578	N/A
Buffalo	New York	273,832	1,275	20	60	560	635	5,893	1,603	3,461	829	40
Chandler	Arizona	250,868	328	4	20	98	206	3,163	491	2,340	332	27
Charlotte-Mecklenburg	North Carolina	733,291	986	10	38	435	502	6,993	1,766	4,407	821	53
Chicago	Illinois	2,824,434	N/A[4]	16	N/A[4]	546	617	4,472	876	2,937	659	25
Cincinnati	Ohio	332,388	1,079	19	94	590	376	6,177	1,865	3,710	601	69
Cleveland	Ohio	439,888	1,465	20	85	914	445	6,142	2,057	2,542	1,542	117
Colorado Springs	Colorado	374,112	531	7	76	141	306	4,425	850	3,178	397	29
Columbus	Ohio	735,981	852	11	90	523	228	6,996	1,952	4,198	846	87
Corpus Christi	Texas	286,428	826	6	83	174	564	6,540	1,189	5,063	288	34
Dallas	Texas	1,239,104	1,069	16	41	583	429	6,776	1,814	3,849	1,113	73
Denver	Colorado	573,387	619	8	52	182	377	3,908	993	2,022	893	31
Detroit	Michigan	860,971	2,289	46	40	764	1,440	6,772	2,064	2,430	2,278	88
El Paso	Texas	616,029	418	3	42	77	297	3,201	349	2,361	492	13
Fort Worth	Texas	670,693	667	9	50	242	367	5,469	1,343	3,726	400	34
Fresno	California	472,170	644	11	21	234	379	4,441	825	2,764	852	47
Glendale	Arizona	250,444	602	6	23	216	357	4,972	1,104	2,683	1,185	27
Henderson	Nevada	251,270	235	4	26	90	115	2,504	712	1,280	513	26
Honolulu	Hawaii	905,903	288	2	25	104	157	4,106	638	2,923	545	45
Houston	Texas	2,169,544	1,132	16	32	529	555	5,684	1,339	3,449	897	48
Indianapolis	Indiana	797,268	1,234	14	63	507	649	6,308	1,679	3,666	963	42
Jacksonville	Florida	797,350	1,022	15	31	391	584	5,696	1,394	3,698	604	23
Kansas City	Missouri	448,218	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Las Vegas Metro	Nevada	1,341,156	1,017	9	54	392	563	4,392	1,141	2,025	1,226	25
Lexington	Kentucky	272,815	656	6	41	202	408	3,427	775	2,428	224	11
Long Beach	California	473,959	723	9	29	318	367	2,738	613	1,522	603	26
Los Angeles	California	3,870,487	718	10	26	348	334	2,621	507	1,506	608	57
Louisville Metro	Kentucky	624,030	679	11	31	306	331	4,734	1,216	3,008	510	34
Memphis	Tennessee	669,264	1,951	19	68	728	1,136	8,062	2,183	4,953	926	22
Mesa	Arizona	454,576	489	5	38	136	310	4,388	643	3,094	651	12
Miami	Florida	410,252	1,492	19	14	618	840	5,163	1,177	3,042	945	43
Milwaukee	Wisconsin	572,938	1,403	18	41	616	728	6,667	1,083	4,232	1,352	60
Minneapolis	Minnesota	371,240	1,503	13	122	679	690	6,072	1,660	3,556	856	58
Mobile	Alabama	253,842	451	15	9	295	131	5,569	1,438	3,688	443	53
Nashville	Tennessee	564,169	1,509	13	51	446	999	5,577	1,083	4,029	465	19
New York	New York	8,220,196	614	6	11	265	332	1,819	254	1,403	161	N/A
Newark	New Jersey	280,158	853	37	21	393	401	3,806	683	1,565	1,558	33
Oakland	California	396,541	1,918	30	75	875	937	5,968	1,196	2,258	2,514	72
Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	542,199	851	11	60	258	522	5,892	1,496	3,546	850	32
Omaha	Nebraska	431,810	597	10	44	189	354	4,784	775	3,213	796	N/A
Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	1,435,533	1,475	27	67	715	667	4,305	803	2,728	774	N/A
Phoenix	Arizona	1,541,698	724	14	33	321	356	5,826	1,246	3,227	1,353	32
Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	312,179	1,107	17	41	511	538	4,463	1,095	2,876	493	25
Plano	Texas	259,771	260	1	20	62	178	3,069	533	2,374	162	17
Portland	Oregon	538,133	688	4	52	240	392	5,870	899	4,084	886	62
Raleigh	North Carolina	367,120	571	6	27	227	311	3,476	803	2,390	283	20
Riverside	California	299,312	632	4	30	229	369	3,727	744	2,366	617	34
Rockford	Illinois	151,703	1,244	12	0.1 0	500	732	12,055	2,996	7,895	1,164	0.1 0
Sacramento	California	460,546	1,113	10	42	436	626	5,298	1,177	2,802	1,319	61
San Antonio	Texas	1,316,882	556	9	48	186	313	6,390	1,272	4,607	511	35
San Diego	California	1,261,196	502	5	23	166	308	3,502	609	1,845	1,049	16
San Francisco	California	733,799	874	14	17	514	330	4,696	692	3,199	804	32
San Jose	California	934,553	402	4	23	114	261	2,575	476	1,412	686	36
Santa Ana	California	340,223	572	7	19	229	317	2,292	298	1,377	617	35
Seattle	Washington	585,118	627	4	15	260	347	5,804	1,023	3,793	988	31
St. Louis	Missouri	348,197	2,198	40	73	793	1,292	9,736	2,093	5,839	1,804	118
St. Paul	Minnesota	271,662	857	5	64	286	502	4,093	992	2,336	764	60
Stockton	California	297,170	1,419	10	35	543	830	6,285	1,364	3,965	956	16
Tampa	Florida	337,220	1,060	8	24	357	671	4,974	1,252	3,081	642	22
Toledo	Ohio	296,403	1,228	4	51	413	759	6,689	1,998	4,058	633	121
Tucson	Arizona	523,299	784	9	53	274	448	N/A	915	N/A	1,293	54
Tulsa	Oklahoma	381,469	1,193	14	78	268	832	6,303	1,794	3,545	964	67
Virginia Beach	Virginia	435,943	250	4	20	127	99	2,989	495	2,359	134	39
Washington	District of Columbia	588,292	1,347	31	33	677	606	4,712	666	2,801	1,245	11
Wichita	Kansas	358,294	945	11	75	155	703	5,793	1,216	3,981	596	53