# Most violent cities in USA **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2013, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839 "2013-01-11T08:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839/61 "2013-01-20T00:42:58Z")
1. Flint, MI - 2337 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 1 2. Detroit, MI - 2137 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 2 3. St. Louis, MO - 1857 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 4. Oakland, CA - 1683 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 5. Memphis, TN - 1584 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 1 6. Little Rock, AR - 1490 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 1 7. Birmingham, AL - 1483 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 0 8. Atlanta, GA - 1433 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 2 9. Baltimore, MD - 1417 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 2 10. Stockton, CA - 1408 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 11. Rockford, IL - 1373 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 0 (drove thru) 12. Cleveland, OH - 1366 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 2 13. New Haven, CT - 1344 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 14. Harford, CT - 1311 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 1 15. Buffalo, NY - 1238 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 2 16. Kansas City, MO - 1200 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 17. Miami, FL - 1198 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 18. Philadelphia, PA - 1193 violent crimes per 100,000 people- 1 19. Nashville, TN - 1181 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 1 20. Newark, NJ - 1166 violent crimes per 100,000 people - 1 22 badass points. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839/62 "2013-01-20T02:51:32Z")
As an update, I just saw a list on Huffington Post of the most and least religious cities in the United States: Most 1. Salt Lake City, UT - 73,487 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 2. Birmingham, AL - 70,990 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (7) 3. Oklahoma City, OK - 60,249 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 4. Memphis, TN - 58,847 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (5) 5. Pittsburgh, PA - 57,695 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 6. Chicago, IL - 57,162 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 7. Providence, RI - 56,840 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 8. Boston, MA - 56,765 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 9. New York, NY - 55,595 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 10. Dallas, TX - 55,536 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 11. Houston, TX - 55,144 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 12. Buffalo, NY - 54,706 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (15) 13. Philadelphia, PA - 54,668 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (18) 14. San Antonio, TX - 54,093 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 15. New Orleans, LA - 53,479 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 16. Minneapolis, MN - 52,061 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 17. Milwaukee, WI - 51,823 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 18. Charlotte, NC - 51,764 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 19. Los Angeles, CA - 51,382 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 20. Cleveland, OH - 51,185 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (12) Least 1. Portland, OR - 31,591 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 2. Tampa, FL - 34,761 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 3. Seattle, WA - 35,643 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 4. Las Vegas, NV - 35,761 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 5. Sacramento, CA - 36,512 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 6. Denver, CO - 36,968 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 7. Phoenix, AZ - 37,518 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 8. Columbus, OH - 37,702 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 9. San Francisco, CA - 37,796 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 10. Miami, FL - 38,058 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (17) 11. Virginia Beach, VA - 40,417 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 12. Orlando, FL - 40,631 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 13. Baltimore, MD - 42,077 religious adherents per 100,000 persons (9) 14. Indianapolis, IN - 42,213 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 15. Riverside, CA - 42,293 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 16. San Diego, CA - 43,917 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 17. Austin, TX - 43,921 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 18. Rochester, NY - 44,066 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 19. San Jose, CA - 44,189 religious adherents per 100,000 persons 20. Raleigh, NC - 44,469 religious adherents per 100,000 persons I added the ranks for those on the crime list. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839/63 "2013-01-21T07:02:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > That is your basic vicious cycle. Poor areas become ugly, and cities eventually give up. > A case in point here in Little Rock; vandals were breaking light bulbs in ornamental lamp posts on a Roosevelt Road bridge, and the city eventually gave up repairing them. > Ugly, abandoned areas attract criminals, and things go to hell. I think its that poor areas have little economic opportunity, so residents turn to criminal enterprises. Though, once places are effectively abandoned (like sections of Detroit), the crime rate drops, because there are no victims available, or customers for illicit activities. ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839/64 "2013-01-21T07:47:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 1. Philadelphia, PA - 1193 violent crimes per 100,000 people. City of Brotherly Love! :rolleyes: Wonder if we beat the year where we had more than one death by shooting a day and more cops killed than weeks in the year? ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839/65 "2013-01-23T00:08:03Z")
Good ol’ Stockton, still in the top 10 after all these years. Oh, how I _haven’t_ missed thee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-violent-cities-in-usa/646839.md?page=3)