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The figure for Austin, at least, is incorrect. This site documents 21 murders within the city limits as of 10/8/17, with at least one death since awaiting an official determination.
Austin isn’t surprising given that it’s land size is bigger than that of NYC by 11.2 square miles with 966,000 people. So, some areas of the city is more in line with first and second ring suburbia, if not third ring/exurban areas, in similar metros in other regions.
Bingo! Not sure why anyone puts stock in rankings that do not consider the entire metropolitan area when weighing statistics.
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Originally Posted by NigerianNightmare
While most of us pull city stats, I think it's mostly because of ease. we all know metro are the important numbers.
LA County/metropolitan being the exception, it is rather difficult to find statistics on murder rates based on metro or county. We all know when taken the suburbs into account, a metropolitan area will appear much safer as opposed to the city limits. Most murders occur in the main city proper, with LA County being the only one(or one of the few) where there are more murders in the suburbs and surrounding large urban centers than in LA itself.
LA County/metropolitan being the exception, it is rather difficult to find statistics on murder rates based on metro or county. We all know when taken the suburbs into account, a metropolitan area will appear much safer as opposed to the city limits. Most murders occur in the main city proper, with LA County being the only one(or one of the few) where there are more murders in the suburbs and surrounding large urban centers than in LA itself.
Majority of the murders still happen in L.A city proper but it's just the entire County is gang infested so the activity spreads"
Examples are Long beach & Compton,These are actually individual cities and not suburbs
Hartford, CT 27
Bridgeport, CT 22
Springfield, MA 14---city saw 12 homicides total in 2016
Lynn, MA 12----Lynn saw big upstick in homicide this year most since 1990s
Waterbury, CT 9---on par with 2016 same period
Lawrence, MA 8---Lawrence saw most homicides and shootings since 2010
New Bedford, MA 8---highest homicide total in 8 years
New Haven, CT 8---city saw 10 at same period in 2016
Brockton, MA 7---City saw 2 total for 2016 there is upstick this year
Providence, RI 7---City saw 8 at same period in 2016
Holyoke, MA 5--City saw increase in murders this year
Worcester, MA 4
Chelsea, MA 3
Fall River, MA 2
New Britain, CT 2
Norwalk, CT 2
Lowell, MA 2
Torrington, CT 2
Manchester, NH 2
Somerville, MA 2
Pittsfield , MA 2
Central falls RI 2
Stratford, CT 2
New London, CT 1
Meriden, CT 1
Danbury, CT 1
Cranston, RI 1
Norwich, CT 1
West Haven, CT 1
Cambridge, MA 1
Stamford, CT 0
The Valley, CT 0
Pawtucket, RI 0
Woonsocket, RI 0
Willimantic, CT 0
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