Murder rate for counties (live, map, crime, compared)

[PGC301]

Originally Posted by Internal Breathing Fire

Prince George's County, MD has about 873K people and last year it had about 90 murders. So far this year it has 16.

The all time high for PG was about 180 in 2005. It's been dropping every year since then.

[DC2PG]

good question

[rah]

San Francisco county (current pop. 805,000) is easy to do, as it's the same as the city. The worst and best five years for murder since 1990:

worst:
1993 - 129 (17.5/100,000)
1992 - 117 (15.6/100,000)
1995 - 105 (14.2/100,000)
1990 - 101 (14.0/100,000)
2007 - 100 (13.6/100,000)

best:
2009 - 45 (5.6/100,000)
2010 - 50 (6.2/100,000)
1998 - 58 (7.8/100,000)
1997 - 59 (7.8/100,000)
2000 - 59 (7.6/100,000)

[Bill Loney]

Don't mess with Texas.

According to the FBI, 396 people were murdered in the Houston area (Harris County) in 2009 making the murder rate in the Houston area 9.76 murders per 100,000 people.

As bad as that is, Baltimore, Philly and Detroit's rates are way worse.

[Chicago60614]

Chicago region homicides. Some of these were 2010 where I could find them, others from the Illinois Police Report from 2008, all basically similar from year to year:

Cook County: 80 murders for 2,455,801 people - 3.25/100,000
Chicago City: 435 murders for 2,832,854 people - 15.35/100,000

Total Cook County: 554 murders for 5,288,655 people - 9.73/100,000

Other Metro Counties:

DuPage: 11 for 932,670 - 1.1/100,000
Kane: 10 for 493,735 - 2.0/100,000
McHenry: 0 for 312,373 people - 0.0/100,000
Lake: 10 for 713,076 people - 1.4/100,000
Will: 18 for 668,217 people - 2.7/100,000
DeKalb: 3 for 100,139 people - 3.0/100,000
Grundy: 0 for 45,828 people - 0.0/100,000
Kendall: 1 for 88,158 people - 1.1/100,000

Illinois Metro Total: 607 for 8,642,851 - 7.02/100,000

Illinois Metro Minus Cook County: 63 for 3,354,196 - 1.58/100,000
Illinois Metro Minus City of Chicago: 174 for 5,809,997 - 2.82/100,000

[FAReastcoast]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

Chicago region homicides. Some of these were 2010 where I could find them, others from the Illinois Police Report from 2008, all basically similar from year to year:

Cook County: 80 murders for 2,455,801 people - 3.25/100,000
Chicago City: 435 murders for 2,832,854 people - 15.35/100,000

I didn't realize the rate was that high in Chicago, I dont watch/read local news in Chicago, are most of those murders concentrated to certain neighborhoods?

[lmcintyre1s]

New Orleans has 176 so far this year. Had 175 last year.

[Neworleansisprettygood]

Originally Posted by lmcintyre1s

New Orleans has 176 so far this year. Had 175 last year.

Yep. I wish I could laugh at the guy from San Diego. Our murder rate is more than 20 times his.

[Thomas R.]

Adding up the towns Lake County, Indiana (Gary et alia) looked to have at least 78 murders for 494,211 people in 2009. That's a rate similar to Chicago itself unless I'm way off on the math.

//www.city-data.com/county/Lake_County-IN.html

Doing the same for Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit) they look to have had at least 320 for about 2 million people in 2010 placing them at 16 per 100,000.

//www.city-data.com/county/Wayne_County-MI.html

Utah County, Utah (Provo-Orem) and Larimer County, Colorado (Fort Collins-Loveland) look like they might be pretty low.

[boreatwork]

Originally Posted by PGC301

The all time high for PG was about 180 in 2005. It's been dropping every year since then.

178 actually. that year it was higher than DC's 169. Since PG county borders DC if they were one area it would've been 347 murders for a combined population of about 1.4 million. Thats about 24/100k for PG and DC together in 07. In 2010 DC had 124 and PG had 90, very much an improvement but a long way to go.