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.

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
New York, NY
46,433
Los Angeles, CA
30,507
Chicago, IL
29,737
Houston, TX
25,609
Philadelphia, PA
14,930
Detroit, MI
13,796
Memphis, TN
13,077
Phoenix, AZ
12,511
Baltimore, MD
12,430
Indianapolis, IN
11,616
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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