Ranking of United States Cities By Number of Violent Crimes in 2019
Updated on January 9, 2025.
According to the FBI UCR data, in 2019, the US city with the highest number of Violent Crimes was New York, NY (47,821); followed by Los Angeles, CA (29,400); Chicago, IL (25,532); Houston, TX (25,257); and Detroit, MI (13,040).
The chart below shows the top 10 cities with high number of Violent crimes in 2019, 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.
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Data Source: FBI UCR.
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Ranking of US Cities By Number of Violent Crimes in 2019
Rank | City | Number of Crimes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York, NY | 47,821 |
| 2 | Los Angeles, CA | 29,400 |
| 3 | Chicago, IL | 25,532 |
| 4 | Houston, TX | 25,257 |
| 5 | Detroit, MI | 13,040 |
| 6 | Memphis, TN | 12,367 |
| 7 | Phoenix, AZ | 11,803 |
| 8 | Dallas, TX | 11,764 |
| 9 | Baltimore, MD | 11,101 |
| 10 | San Antonio, TX | 11,046 |
| 11 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV | 8,854 |
| 12 | Milwaukee, WI | 7,874 |
| 13 | Albuquerque, NM | 7,596 |
| 14 | Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN | 7,376 |
| 15 | Kansas City, MO | 7,099 |
| 16 | Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC | 6,982 |
| 17 | Washington, DC | 6,896 |
| 18 | San Francisco, CA | 5,933 |
| 19 | Jacksonville, FL | 5,886 |
| 20 | St. Louis, MO | 5,792 |
| 21 | Cleveland, OH | 5,791 |
| 22 | Oakland, CA | 5,520 |
| 23 | Denver, CO | 5,459 |
| 24 | San Diego, CA | 5,215 |
| 25 | Oklahoma City, OK | 4,751 |
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