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Louisville has an extremely high homicide rate considering it's a clean, middle-income city with a very low prices and a stable, non-transient population with good economics.
One would think with decent per-capita incomes just slightly lower than Chicago and Los Angeles and extremely low cost of living plus cleanliness, good housing stock and having a non-transient population would make it one of the safest cities in the country but yet the amount of homicides in Louisville is extremely high.
173 homicides last year and yet it is a very middle-class city with a per-capita income that is just slightly lower than Chicago and Los Angeles.
Kansas City is another one less than half a million in the city population but 182 homicides. Yet household incomes and per-capita income middle of the road for a city.
Oakland has one of the highest per-capita incomes of large cities but yet Oakland has an extremely high violent crime rate.
Minneapolis is similar, one of the highest per-capita incomes for a city of it's size but yet it is a very high violent crime rate.
St. Louis is near of the world on the homicides it has but yet St. Louis has only slightly lower per-capita incomes than Los Angeles and Chicago.
St. Louis is far, far more economically well-off with-in the city limits compared to cities like Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit yet St. Louis has an international reputation as one of the world's more violent cities.
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I will say having been in Louisville several times before, the homicide rate is puzzling.
One would think with decent per-capita incomes just slightly lower than Chicago and Los Angeles and extremely low cost of living plus cleanliness, good housing stock and having a non-transient population would make it one of the safest cities in the country but yet the amount of homicides in Louisville is extremely high.
173 homicides last year and yet it is a very middle-class city with a per-capita income that is just slightly lower than Chicago and Los Angeles.
Kansas City is another one less than half a million in the city population but 182 homicides. Yet household incomes and per-capita income middle of the road for a city.
Oakland has one of the highest per-capita incomes of large cities but yet Oakland has an extremely high violent crime rate.
Minneapolis is similar, one of the highest per-capita incomes for a city of it's size but yet it is a very high violent crime rate.
St. Louis is near of the world on the homicides it has but yet St. Louis has only slightly lower per-capita incomes than Los Angeles and Chicago.
St. Louis is far, far more economically well-off with-in the city limits compared to cities like Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit yet St. Louis has an international reputation as one of the world's more violent cities.
I think Odessa, Texas would be a city that has a good income for a blue-collar and working class city that has a high murder rate i would think.
District of Columbia - homicide rate similar or slightly higher than Louisville yet the median hh income is more than double. It's one of the richest cities in the country
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..Really? I mean ill be honest, by no means does it "feel" high crime to me but it is.
Also fwiw OP said "high homicide"
It doesn't feel like it, because the crime in the district is mostly located East of the Anacostia River, where most people don't go. More than half the homicides in the city happen on about 15 sq mi of land.
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