Here’s how Americans rank the 50 states

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‘The worst city in every state’: Reddit map gets attention, reaction

 

A map of the United States seemed to be getting a lot of attention on Thursday, generating conversations and some outrage after it started making the rounds on Reddit.

The map’s title: THE WORST CITY IN EVERY STATE.

 

Within the boundaries of each state, the city that supposedly was the bottom of the barrel there appeared.

 

For Maryland, it was Poolesville in Montgomery County. For Virginia, it was Virginia Beach, which is located in the southeastern part of the state known as Hampton Roads.

 

Keep in mind, there was no point of reference for how the names came to be there, no criteria, no methodology. It appeared as if each one were chosen in the most random way possible. In fact, one person commented: “Those maps are 100% to get engagement and have no actual research behind them.”

 

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These Cities Have the Highest Murder Rates in America

 

For much of the last four decades, rates of deadly violence have been trending downward in the United States. Between the early 1990s and the mid-2010s, the U.S. murder rate fell by more than 50% — from a multi-decade high of nearly 10 homicides for every 100,000 people in 1991, down to just 4.4 per 100,000 in 2014. But more recent FBI crime data suggests that the sustained period of improvement has come to an end.

 

The U.S. homicide rate rose in five of the last eight years — including 2020, when the number of murders spiked by an unprecedented 30%. Climbing again the following year, the national homicide rate hit its highest level in a quarter century in 2021, at 6.8 murders per 100,000 people.

 

As of 2022, the latest year of available data, there were 6.3 murders for every 100,000 people nationwide — below the highs reported in much of the 1980s and 1990s, but well above more recent annual rates. Homicide data at the local level shows that historically high rates of deadly violence are being driven by certain U.S. cities, places where murder rates are many times higher than they are nationwide.

 

Using data compiled by the nonprofit organization Murder Accountability Project 24/7 Wall St. identified the American cities with the highest murder rates.

 

Among the 50 metro areas on this list, homicide rates range from 10.2 per 100,000 people, to 28.8 per 100,000. 

 

50. Goldsboro, NC - Murder rate in 2022: 10.2 homicides per 100,000 people

 

46. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD - Murder rate in 2022: 10.5 homicides per 100,000 people

 

38. Greenville, NC - Murder rate in 2022: 11.5 homicides per 100,000 people
 

36. Richmond, VA - Murder rate in 2022: 11.6 homicides per 100,000 people
 

31. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD - Murder rate in 2022: 12.6 homicides per 100,000 people
 

28. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC - Murder rate in 2022: 12.7 homicides per 100,000 people
 

1. Macon, GA - Murder rate in 2022: 28.8 homicides per 100,000 people
 

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