List of cities by murder rate

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The following 50 cities have the highest murder rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people, and all relevant data available online.^[1][2]

Rank	City	Country	Homicides (2017)	Population (2017)	Homicides per 100,000
1	Los Cabos	Mexico	365	328,245	111.33
2	Caracas	Venezuela	3,387	3,046,104	111.19
3	Acapulco	Mexico	910	853,646	106.63
4	Natal	Brazil	1,378	1,343,573	102.56
5	Tijuana	Mexico	1,897	1,882,492	100.77
6	La Paz	Mexico	259	305,455	84.79
7	Fortaleza	Brazil	3,270	3,917,279	83.48
8	Ciudad Victoria	Mexico	301	361,078	83.32
9	Ciudad Guayana	Venezuela	728	906,879	80.28
10	Belém	Brazil	1,743	2,441,761	71.38
11	Vitória da Conquista	Brazil	245	348,718	70.26
12	Culiacán	Mexico	671	957,613	70.10
13	St. Louis	United States	205	311,404	65.83
14	Maceió	Brazil	658	1,029,129	63.94
15	Cape Town	South Africa	2,493	4,004,793	62.25
16	Kingston	Jamaica	705	1,180,771	59.71
17	San Salvador	El Salvador	1,057	1,789,588	59.06
18	Aracaju	Brazil	560	951,073	58.88
19	Feira de Santana	Brazil	369	627,477	58.81
20	Ciudad Juárez	Mexico	814	1,448,859	56.16
21	Baltimore	United States	341	614,664	55.48
22	Recife	Brazil	2,180	3,965,699	54.96
23	Maturín	Venezuela	327	600,722	54.43
24	Guatemala City	Guatemala	1,705	3,187,293	53.49
25	Salvador	Brazil	2,071	4,015,205	51.58
26	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	392	765,864	51.18
27	Valencia	Venezuela	784	1,576,071	49.74
28	Cali	Colombia	1,261	2,542,876	49.59
29	Chihuahua	Mexico	460	929,884	49.48
30	João Pessoa	Brazil	554	1,126,613	49.17
31	Obregón	Mexico	166	339,000	48.96
32	San Juan	Puerto Rico	169	347,052	48.70
33	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	644	1,335,348	48.23
34	Manaus	Brazil	1,024	2,130,264	48.07
35	Distrito Central (Tegucigalpa)	Honduras	588	1,224,897	48.00
36	Tepic	Mexico	237	503,330	47.09
37	Palmira	Colombia	144	308,669	46.65
38	Reynosa	Mexico	294	701,525	41.95
39	Porto Alegre	Brazil	1,748	4,268,083	40.96
40	Macapá	Brazil	191	474,706	40.24
41	New Orleans	United States	157	391,495	40.10
42	Detroit	United States	267	672,795	39.69
43	Mazatlán	Mexico	192	488,281	39.32
44	Durban	South Africa	1,396	3,661,911	38.12
45	Campos dos Goytacazes	Brazil	184	490,288	37.53
46	Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth)	South Africa	474	1,263,051	37.53
47	Campina Grande	Brazil	153	410,332	37.29
48	Teresina	Brazil	315	850,198	37.05
49	Vitoria	Brazil	707	1,960,213	36.07
50	Cúcuta	Colombia	290	833,743	34.78

 

 

Big cities with highest murder rates in early 2017

Murder rates among cities with populations over 250,000 for which data was available

		MURDER RATE PER 100,000
	CITY	2016 UNOFFICIAL	2017 PROJECTED	PROJECTED CHANGE
1	St. Louis	59.3	57.9	-1.4	–
2	Baltimore	51.2	55.5	+4.3	–
3	New Orleans	44.5	49.7	+5.2	–
4	Detroit	44.9	40.7	-4.2	–
5	Kansas City, MO	26.4	30.3	+3.9	–
6	Memphis, TN	31.9	28.1	-3.8	–
7	Cleveland	35.0	27.9	-7.1	–
8	Chicago	27.9	24.1	-3.8	–
9	Cincinnati	20.8	23.1	+2.3	–
10	Philadelphia	17.7	19.8	+2.1	–