25 Most Dangerous Places in the U.S. in 2023-2024 | U.S. News
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Crime rate can be one of the deciding factors of where families settle down. Based on the metro areas' murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people, determined by FBI crime reports, these are the most dangerous places to live in the United States. For more information on how we rank, read the Best Places to Live methodology.
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- Memphis, TN
- Albuquerque, NM
- Anchorage, AK
- Bakersfield, CA
- Little Rock, AR
- Chattanooga, TN
- Corpus Christi, TX
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Memphis, TN
#1 in Most Dangerous Places
Set in the Mississippi Delta, Memphis is a metro area where the energy of urban living melds with the slow rhythms of... Read MoreOverall Score5.5Overall ScoreQuality of Life4.8Quality of LifeValue6.9ValueOverall Score5.5Quality of Life4.8Value6.9 - View All 25 Photos
Albuquerque, NM
#2 in Most Dangerous Places
Perhaps best known for the annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta and as the setting for AMC's hit show... Read MoreOverall Score5.9Overall ScoreQuality of Life6.0Quality of LifeValue6.8ValueOverall Score5.9Quality of Life6.0Value6.8 - View All 17 Photos
Anchorage, AK
#3 in Most Dangerous Places
Outdoor adventurers who still want the amenities of a midsize city might find a home in Anchorage. Founded in 1914, the... Read MoreOverall Score6.1Overall ScoreQuality of Life6.6Quality of LifeValue6.0ValueOverall Score6.1Quality of Life6.6Value6.0 - View All 18 Photos
Bakersfield, CA
#4 in Most Dangerous Places
Bakersfield has long been known as a stopover for those traveling between Los Angeles and San Francisco. But people who... Read MoreOverall Score5.2Overall ScoreQuality of Life5.4Quality of LifeValue5.4ValueOverall Score5.2Quality of Life5.4Value5.4 - View All 21 Photos
Little Rock, AR
#5 in Most Dangerous Places
You may know Little Rock, Arkansas, as the home of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum. Or perhaps you... Read MoreOverall Score6.1Overall ScoreQuality of Life6.1Quality of LifeValue7.6ValueOverall Score6.1Quality of Life6.1Value7.6 - View All 19 Photos
Chattanooga, TN
#6 in Most Dangerous Places
In many ways, Chattanooga is the comeback kid of Tennessee. Once called "the dirtiest city in America" by Walter... Read MoreOverall Score6.4Overall ScoreQuality of Life5.9Quality of LifeValue7.7ValueOverall Score6.4Quality of Life5.9Value7.7 - View All 24 Photos
Corpus Christi, TX
#7 in Most Dangerous Places
Tucked away in southern Texas, Corpus Christi is a place where you're much more likely to see cyclists in flip flops... Read MoreOverall Score5.7Overall ScoreQuality of Life5.8Quality of LifeValue6.6ValueOverall Score5.7Quality of Life5.8Value6.6 - View All 23 Photos
Tulsa, OK
#8 in Most Dangerous Places
Once considered the oil capital of the world, "T-Town" has developed into a vibrant (albeit small), modern metro area... Read MoreOverall Score6.1Overall ScoreQuality of Life5.7Quality of LifeValue7.7ValueOverall Score6.1Quality of Life5.7Value7.7 - View All 30 Photos
Columbia, SC
#9 in Most Dangerous Places
Columbia, South Carolina, is a traditionally Southern town with a modern twist. The abundance of oak, pecan and magnolia... Read MoreOverall Score6.2Overall ScoreQuality of Life6.2Quality of LifeValue7.2ValueOverall Score6.2Quality of Life6.2Value7.2 - View All 45 Photos
Kalamazoo, MI
#10 in Most Dangerous Places
Kalamazoo is as fun and quirky as its unusual name suggests. Its theaters, museums and live music venues make the city... Read MoreOverall Score6.2Overall ScoreQuality of Life6.5Quality of LifeValue7.3ValueOverall Score6.2Quality of Life6.5Value7.3
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Conspicuously Absent? Chicago!
Oh, today it’s Oakland. And if that doesn’t suffice it’s AOC. And there’s always the ‘squad’ or ‘brandon’ or any other perjorative one churlishly throws out in the inability to engage in an actual discussion.
The only way for the miserable denizen of provincial backwaters like Waco and Sheboygan to feel any better about themselves is to believe that San Francisco, Seattle and New York are, "Shitholes"...
So, what is Ohio most known for today? Juggalos!
“…provincial hellholes…”
Indeed…forgetting or forgiving everything that is analogous to every other place.
I thought better of that. Changed it to backwaters. Like in Ohio.
“Like Ohio.”
born in Akron, but don’t spread that around…
I am a former Okie...
I was born in the south. thankfully my parents moved before I suffered any permanent damage.
Opinions on that do vary.
I was born in the Northeast. My ways were set in stone before I moved any where near a red state
all I ever remember is colorado as a kid. it was a red state until all the republicans here went insane.
No it was a red state until all of the Californians infiltrated the state.
My MIL says Texans are infiltrating the state and driving up real estate prices
the texans all left when the drilling stopped...
And Baltimore
When a city has to pay people to wander the city as human pooper scoopers, that place may rightfully be considered a shithole.
Yeah...all so-called blue cities are shit holes...according to our rwjos....of course some of them have never ventured more than 100 miles from where they were born
it costs too much to roll coal with all them trump flags flying in the truck bed to drive any farther...
Yep, if you can get paid six figures to power wash human feces off the sidewalk, you might live in a shithole.
lol …..fun with numbers and statistics. Big city shitholes try to hide their rampant crime by cherry-picking the type of crime and with the sheer volume of bodies who live there. Pick say, homicide rates and the worm turns.
Smoke and mirrors my friends. Smoke and mirrors
So glad I live in SE Arizona, even if it is on the border.
Gee! Neither New York nor San Francisco even made your list...
Chicago was #10
It’s not MY list. The link is clear on that. And the list is a who’s who of liberal managed cities. Failures to their peoples safety one and all.
And yet, New York and San Francisco are not even on it...
lol …. So what? Most of the “most dangerous” places on this seeds list aren’t on it either. What do you make of that?
So far you have no cogent response to offer to my comment. Just more spin.
Or Baltimore, a member of my fan club goes out of his nasty way to trash it whenever I mention that I used to work in Baltimore at the University of Maryland.
I fully agree that it is all a matter of what factors are used to determine extent. IMO, I would have thought that Yellowstone Park was the most dangerous place in the USA.
Yes, super volcano….. very dangerous.
Only to those from out of state, the locals create betting pools about any sort of incident.
That doesn't make it any less dangerous.
I still say the most dangerous place on the planet is Australia, just about anything and everything there can and will kill ya.
Crocodile Dundee would disagree with you on that.
Then again, Mick's aboriginal name translated to crocodile, that walks like a man. According to wrong way walt
Oh don't be such a wussy...
Just because there are a few snappies, bities and stingies you are perfectly safe..
So long as you don't swim in the sea or billabongs or walk on land you are perfectly fine..🐊🦂🐜🦈🪱🐙
PS..you aren't related to devangelical by any chance? Doesn't think my rock is very safe either for some reason..😁
Only to people who do not respect the Big, Fluffy, Things
It isn't just the docile looking fluffy things, been following a story of a touron that wanted to hot pot, stuck their finger in one to test the temp, ended up pulling out a stump that quickly, turns out it wasn't just hot, but very acidic.
I wouldn't call them docile. Kavika had a meme about not petting the fluffy cows
LOL I said they LOOK docile not that they are, being 70 miles from Yellowstone south gate as the crow flies I know they are wild and not tame.
My bets are always on the bison and their red dogs.
My apologies, I didn't read your comment correctly.
I visited Yellowstone when we were driving back from Alaska. We saw this family stand not less than 10 feet in front of a herd of buffalo while somebody else took a photo. We shook our heads and stepped back
Like I said us somewhat locals makeup betting pools about tourists in the park.
So far my favorite most recent one was a biker chick who lost her pants to a bison for being too close. bison strutted around with the pants hanging off it's horn...
OH DAAARWIN....
LOL!
I saw a meme on Facebook about the most venemous snakes. Most of them are in Australia.
And are you really safe in the air? There's some big ass birds down under
Morning..well I am about to find out... sitting out at Tullamarine waiting for the plane to Brisbane..
Then from there heading to Norfolk island..I guess we could run into a wedgie...(wedge tailed eagle)..😁
US wedgie =
grabbing somebody's boxer waistband by the rear label and pulling it up their back to the shoulder blades...
That's an atomic wedgie . . .
Works with tightie whities also.
”…tightie whities…”
…lots of those hereabouts…
Indeed, with their panties in an atomic wedgie
You know ….. budgies …. Just a little looser.
Your budgies are an automatic wedgie.
I'm surrounded by them
get one of those natural gas fired crosses for the front yard. put it next to your new coin-op sheet laundromat...
When I was stationed at the Marine Corps Base at Camp Pendleton, CA in the early 80's I once watched a huge rogue male bison stand off head to head against a amphibious tracked vehicle in the middle of a dirt mountain road. He would charge and the vehicle would back up, never the buffalo. Finally the Amtrak left the road and went around the huge beast who just shook his head, snorted, and ambled off down the with honor satisfied. Me and my buds were standing about 20 yards away laughing our heads off.
you can start the new "lynch and laundry" franchise after trump gets elected... /s
Yes it is. They use "per 100,000" and shit like that. Don't care. If there are 1,000 crimes and you have a population of 100,000 is one thing. Those same 1,000 crimes in a population of 1,000,000 is still 1,000 crimes. That is how the shitholes look better.
Yep …. actively keeping their useful idiots, useful.
That only explains you two's comments...
Oh man, coming from you that really stings ….
Good job, Sparty.
Gee, changing the filters to show the safest places puts several Florida cities at the top of the list. Maybe Ron DeSantis is doing something right, after all. (BTW, Chicago didn't make it on this list, either.)
Top Ten Safest Places:
The only thing DeSantis is doing is avoiding the reality of crime in Florida. Florida is one of four states where less than half of the police departments in the state report their crime stats to the FBI. No wonder so many Florida cities are on the safest places to live.
I live in Ocala the real stats from local crime report shows Ocala as one of the most dangerous places with crime rates well above the national average. Daytona Beach is known as the most dangerous city in Florida with a violent crime rate well above the national average.
The list is a sham.
So, the good news is a sham while the bad news is dead-on accurate. Doesn't that suggest there is some sort of bias in the news reporting? Wonder why that might be?
Both the safest and most dangerous lists came from data on the same 150 cities. Just using different filters (available on the US News site) generates the two lists. But the list of the good news is a lie while the list of the bad news is the truth. See why the United States has been fucked over by the politics of Obama, Clinton, Biden, the Squad, and the new Democrats? They ain't happy till no one is happy. The liberal bias depends upon finding the bad in the every situation.
We're supposed to trust the data until we're not supposed to. Trust in liberals depends upon believing what you want to believe. Doesn't this illustrate how elections are rigged? Doesn't this demonstrate how it is possible to steal elections?
I pointed out facts that made the list a sham, all are verifiable, so if the ''good'' list is a sham that would indicate that the ''bad'' list might be a sham as well. Pretty simple.
Thank you once again your partisan mentality dominates your thinking and also two paragraphs of word salad seal the deal.
Nothing better than the eye test. Observation is your best list. It’s also tougher to cover up major crime like murders/homocide than lesser crime like theft, muggings etc so they tend to be more accurate lists I think.
I live in “safe” sleepy small town in northern Michigan where we don’t have a few murders per week but rather a few murders per year. But even here, as my former sister in law would say. Who was a former assistant prosecutor, if you only knew how much crime there really was here.
Resort areas try to cover that stuff up the best they can to attract tourists. Like Daytona Beach.
Then verify them. I provided a link. Where's yours? Pretty simple.
If you want bothsiderism then you need to slam both sides. Don't rag on my comment and call it an objective rebuttal. That might win a Pulitzer Prize but it's not quite honest, is it?
BTW, the most dangerous cities in Florida doesn't mean they're the most dangerous in the country. How many street gangs are there in Ocala or Daytona Beach? Here's a map of gang territories in Chicago: And Chicago didn't make it on either the good list or the bad list.
Ronin listed them in his comment 5.2 hours ago, but here are more for you.
Since you brought up Chicago here is the crime rate Daytona Beach vs Chicago. Chicago looks pretty safe compared to Daytona Beach.
2024 Compare Crime Rates:
Daytona Beach, FL vs Chicago, IL
The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime).
My comment had nothing to do with bothsiderism, it pointed out that the list of ''good cities'' was faulty, and if you find part of a statement is faulty when it leads to the possibility of the other data being faulty. You are the one trying to make it into a one-sided rag, and yes my comment is honest.
I never stated that the most dangerous cities in Florida were the most dangerous in the country. I pointed out that Daytona Beach was the most dangerous city in Florida.
Just in case you missed the states I posted above.
Now wait one cotton-pickin' minute. You claimed the Florida numbers are 'good' because the crime ain't reported. And you provide links to prove crime is under reported so you can slam DeSantis. Then you provide data of reported crime that shows Florida is a crime shithole. So, which data is the lie? And which lie are we supposed to believe? The one we want to believe?
You slammed my list of safest places so you could bad-mouth DeSantis. But that's not partisan. Now you are arguing against yourself to do what? Prove that liberal shit smells like roses?
Hillary Clinton would be so proud.
I never said Florida numbers are ''good'' because crime ain't reported, how you arrived at that conclusion is stunning, that parallel universe you're in certainly is entertaining if nothing else.
You certainly have a way of not understanding comments or is it willful ignorance? either way it's reminiscent of Professor Edwin Corey explaining how to split an atom.
I didn't bad-mouth DeSantis I pointed out that he should spend more time getting the accurate crime stats for Florida than say, fighting his ''woke war''. BTW DeSantis constantly brags about the low crime rate we have in Florida and in reality, it isn't low at all. Liberal shit doesn't smell like roses, it smells just like shit is suposed to smell I leave the spreading of BS to the partisans of MN.
I know, logic and facts must be a challenge.
What in the world does Hillary Clinton have to do with It, oh wait is she in Chicago which also has nothing to do with the article. These connections that you trying to make are tenuous at best.
Cheers.
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
FBI data 25 most dangerous cities in the US 2023-24
25 Most Dangerous Cities In The U.S. According to FBI Data (msn.com)
Chicago is not on the list, not are San Francisco or New York.
SF was listed as #21 according to the seeded article
san francisco is not on the list linked in my comment
I didn't say your link, I said the seeded articles link I believe.
I don't care about your link just the articles
You mean FBI data that isn't complete because not every city bothers to submit all of their data?
Checkmate!
See #3 above.
Keep spinning John.
It doesn't surprise me that Little Rock is high on the list. I think they broke the record for murders January 31, 2024. Ok...kidding. But about every day there's a new murder
Anchorage surprises me, tho
The only time I ever chose to live in a suburb was when I was transferred to Little Rock, Ark.
Sherwood...
That's a nice suburb. My sister lives there.
It is close in and the police are better...
Yeah...the houses are all way too close together. I like my bedroom community because it's farther out from Little Rock and more country. We found the perfect spot. Three acres of trees and only 5 minutes from Walmart