Score
Low Homicide Risk
Lower homicide or murder rate scores higher using FBI-derived city data with state fallback.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Low Homicide Risk rewards places with a lower estimated homicide or murder crime rate.
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City records are matched by normalized city and state name
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unmatched places use state fallback rates.
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City rates are strongly shrunk toward the state rate using prior populations to reduce volatility in smaller places.
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The shrunk rate is inverse percentile-rank normalized over the full scored distribution, so lower rates score higher.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Low Homicide Risk.
What This Score Means
Low Homicide Risk rewards places with a lower estimated homicide or murder crime rate.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Homicide or murder crime rateSource: OpenCrime processed FBI Crime Data Explorer data
Estimated homicide or murder incidents per 100,000 people.
- Source populationSource: OpenCrime processed FBI Crime Data Explorer data
Population of the matched city record or state fallback record.
- Match level and confidenceSource: OpenCrime processed FBI Crime Data Explorer data
Whether the score used a city match or state fallback, plus match confidence.
Source Data
Known Limits
- Crime data is reported by law enforcement agencies, not Census places, so place matching is approximate.
- Unmatched places use state fallback rates, and city rates are shrunk toward the state rate to reduce small-population noise.
- Rape-risk estimates use OpenCrime violent-crime composition where available and state or national city-composition fallback otherwise.
- Sexual-violence reporting is especially incomplete and sensitive to reporting practices, so compare this score cautiously.
- Reporting gaps, agency participation, and definition changes can affect comparisons.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Low Homicide Risk.