Rating

Low Homicide Risk

Scale56-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with the lowest estimated homicide or murder rate, using city data where available and state context to reduce small-place swings.

Sources

1 source

City source years 2020–2024; latest source year 2024

Data: OpenCrime CC0 city and state JSON derived from FBI Crime Data Explorer crime totals, including city-level homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated-assault composition.
What it tells us: Provides city and state crime rates derived from FBI reporting; city figures are adjusted toward state rates, unmatched places use state fallback estimates, and the violent-crime total can be explained by its four reported offense categories. Reporting coverage and jurisdiction boundaries vary.

Ranked by Low Homicide Risk.

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