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Philly is bad but let's compare best to best and worst to worst. What is the US state or county with lowest homicide rate? Higher than Norway probably, but by h

Philly is bad but let's compare best to best and worst to worst. What is the US state or county with lowest homicide rate? Higher than Norway probably, but by how much? What is the worst in Europe?

throwaway0a5e 6y ago
> What is the US state or county with lowest homicide rate? The ones with cold winters and minimal urbanization.
- bigfudge 6y ago
  The UK is more urban than US and has a small fraction of the murder rate.
- irrational 6y ago
  Wyoming?
- dan_quixote 6y ago
  Alaska is ready and willing to prove you wrong.
  - throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    Alaska gets all the people who struck out in the lower 48 so of course it's a little more spicy than it should be.
cptskippy 6y ago
Philadelphia is a city. Pick any city in Norway and you get the same results.
kwhitefoot 6y ago
US counties are quite small so it should be easy to find one that has a very low or very high murder rate.
lucozade 6y ago
From [0] and[1], in 2018 Norway had a murder rate of about 0.5/100k. South Dakota (the least murder-y state) had a rate of 1.4. The worst in Europe are the Baltic states. Latvia and Lithuania would be equivalent to middle of the pack US states. Outside the Baltic states, the rest of the EU and UK would be, at worst, just nudging the bottom of the states' rankings or, at best, quite some way below. Once you get to Turkey and the Balkan states, you are again nudging lowish US numbers. BTW the reason Liechtenstein is an outlier is because it has a population of 38k. So this suggest that one person was murdered there in 2018. [0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Crime_statistics#intentional_homicides_in_the_EU-27_in_2018 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
mattmcknight 6y ago
Irvine, California out of the 100 largest cities. Average of 0.72 homicides per 100,000 people, per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Philly is bad but let's compare best to best and worst to worst. What is the US state or county with lowest homicide rate? Higher than Norway probably, but by how much? What is the worst in Europe?

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

> What is the US state or county with lowest homicide rate? The ones with cold winters and minimal urbanization.

bigfudge 6y ago
The UK is more urban than US and has a small fraction of the murder rate.
irrational 6y ago
Wyoming?
dan_quixote 6y ago
Alaska is ready and willing to prove you wrong.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Alaska gets all the people who struck out in the lower 48 so of course it's a little more spicy than it should be.

cptskippy 6y ago

Philadelphia is a city. Pick any city in Norway and you get the same results.

kwhitefoot 6y ago

US counties are quite small so it should be easy to find one that has a very low or very high murder rate.

lucozade 6y ago

From [0] and[1], in 2018 Norway had a murder rate of about 0.5/100k. South Dakota (the least murder-y state) had a rate of 1.4. The worst in Europe are the Baltic states. Latvia and Lithuania would be equivalent to middle of the pack US states. Outside the Baltic states, the rest of the EU and UK would be, at worst, just nudging the bottom of the states' rankings or, at best, quite some way below. Once you get to Turkey and the Balkan states, you are again nudging lowish US numbers. BTW the reason Liechtenstein is an outlier is because it has a population of 38k. So this suggest that one person was murdered there in 2018. [0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Crime_statistics#intentional_homicides_in_the_EU-27_in_2018 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

mattmcknight 6y ago

Irvine, California out of the 100 largest cities. Average of 0.72 homicides per 100,000 people, per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...