Ranking of United States Cities By Number of Violent Crimes in 2017
Updated on January 9, 2025.
According to the FBI UCR data, in 2017, the US city with the highest number of Violent Crimes was New York, NY (46,433); followed by Los Angeles, CA (30,507); Chicago, IL (29,737); Houston, TX (25,609); and Philadelphia, PA (14,930).
The chart below shows the top 10 cities with high number of Violent crimes in 2017, and the table below shows the ranking of the top 500 cities with high number of Violent crimes in the United States.
You can see similar rankings of cities for other crime types in the United States.
You can also see links at the bottom of the page for the ranking of cities by the number of Violent crimes for each state.
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Related Topics: US FBI UCR 2017 Topic List.
Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of US Cities By Number of Violent Crimes in 2017
Rank | City | Number of Crimes |
---|---|---|
1 | New York, NY | 46,433 |
2 | Los Angeles, CA | 30,507 |
3 | Chicago, IL | 29,737 |
4 | Houston, TX | 25,609 |
5 | Philadelphia, PA | 14,930 |
6 | Detroit, MI | 13,796 |
7 | Memphis, TN | 13,077 |
8 | Phoenix, AZ | 12,511 |
9 | Baltimore, MD | 12,430 |
10 | Indianapolis, IN | 11,616 |
11 | San Antonio, TX | 10,759 |
12 | Dallas, TX | 10,369 |
13 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV | 10,071 |
14 | Milwaukee, WI | 9,507 |
15 | Kansas City, MO | 8,362 |
16 | Albuquerque, NM | 7,686 |
17 | Nashville Metropolitan, TN | 7,682 |
18 | Washington, DC | 6,584 |
19 | St. Louis, MO | 6,461 |
20 | San Francisco, CA | 6,301 |
21 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC | 6,068 |
22 | Cleveland, OH | 5,999 |
23 | Jacksonville, FL | 5,648 |
24 | Oakland, CA | 5,521 |
25 | San Diego, CA | 5,221 |
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Ranking of Cities By Number of Violent Crimes for each US State in 2017
Use the following links to see the ranking of cities by the number of Violent crimes for each of the following states in 2017.