MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An internet site that claims to be the biggest price of dwelling database says Memphis is the tenth most harmful metropolis on this planet.
Memphis was the one metropolis within the U.S. to make the highest ten of Numbeo’s Crime Index by City 2024 Mid-Year.
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, and Caracas, Venezuela, took the highest three spots. Baltimore, Detroit, and Albuquerque had been the one different American cities within the high twenty.
|
Rank |
Metropolis |
Crime Index |
Security Index |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
82.5 |
17.5 |
|
2 |
Pretoria, South Africa |
81.9 |
18.1 |
|
3 |
Caracas, Venezuela |
81.7 |
18.3 |
|
4 |
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
80.9 |
19.1 |
|
5 |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
80.8 |
19.2 |
|
6 |
Durban, South Africa |
80.6 |
19.4 |
|
7 |
Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
77.7 |
22.3 |
|
8 |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
77.5 |
22.5 |
|
9 |
Salvador, Brazil |
76.6 |
23.4 |
|
10 |
Memphis, TN, United States |
76.5 |
23.5 |
|
11 |
Recife, Brazil |
75.9 |
24.1 |
|
12 |
Rosario, Argentina |
75.6 |
24.4 |
|
13 |
Fortaleza, Brazil |
74.7 |
25.3 |
|
14 |
Baltimore, MD, United States |
74.7 |
25.3 |
|
15 |
Guayaquil, Ecuador |
74.4 |
25.6 |
|
16 |
Detroit, MI, United States |
74.3 |
25.7 |
|
17 |
Cape City, South Africa |
73.8 |
26.2 |
|
18 |
Alice Springs, Australia |
72.1 |
27.9 |
|
19 |
Tijuana, Mexico |
72.1 |
27.9 |
|
20 |
Albuquerque, NM, United States |
71.7 |
28.3 |
Based on Numbeo, the crime knowledge is derived from surveys carried out by guests to their web site. The questions within the surveys are designed to be much like these in lots of scientific and authorities surveys.
Numbeo says the crime index is an estimation of the general stage of crime in a given metropolis or nation.
“We contemplate crime ranges decrease than 20 as very low, crime ranges between 20 and 40 as low, crime ranges between 40 and 60 as average, crime ranges between 60 and 80 as excessive, and crime ranges greater than 80 as very excessive,” mentioned Numbeo
The crime index takes into consideration survey responses about:
– The final notion of crime ranges
– Perceived security: Survey responses from residents and guests relating to their emotions of security whereas strolling throughout daylight and at night time.
– Issues about particular crimes: Survey questions on worries relating to mugging, theft, automotive theft, bodily assaults by strangers, harassment in public locations, and discrimination based mostly on elements like pores and skin colour, ethnicity, gender, or faith.
– Property crimes: Evaluation of the extent of property-related crimes, reminiscent of housebreaking, theft, vandalism, and so on.
– Violent crimes: Analysis of the notion of violent crimes, together with assault, murder, sexual offenses, and so on.
“It’s essential to notice that the crime index offered by Numbeo relies on user-contributed knowledge and perceptions, which can differ from official authorities statistics. The index serves as a comparative software to evaluate the relative security of various cities or international locations, serving to people make knowledgeable choices and perceive the crime panorama in particular places,” mentioned Numbeo
In April, The Shelby County Crime Commission and the University of Memphis released numbers exhibiting violent crimes, together with murder, rape, theft, larceny, aggravated assault, housebreaking, auto theft, and human trafficking, had steadily dropped from July till March of this yr.
The police knowledge confirmed experiences of these crimes had been almost reduce in half from eight months earlier than. Based on MPD’s most recently available numbers, to this point this yr, there have been 175 homicides in Memphis. That compares to 217 throughout the identical interval in 2024.
For a whole listing of Numbeo’s crime rankings by metropolis, click here.
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