{"chart":{"slug":"murder-rate-by-city-over-100000","title":"Which U.S. cities of 100,000 or more have the highest murder rates?","takeaway":"In 2025 St. Louis, MO had the highest murder rate of the 313 U.S. cities of 100,000 people or more whose police reported a full year to the FBI, about 51.3 per 100,000 people, followed by Birmingham, AL (43.0) and Memphis, TN (31.0); the U.S. rate was about 4.4. Search for any city to see its rate and rank. In a city of 100,000, one more or one fewer murder moves the rate by 1, so a smaller city's rate can jump from year to year. Departments that didn't report a full year are left out, and each rate is per person the department serves; a few serve their whole county. A city's rate also depends on where its borders fall, so compare cities with care.","topic":"Crime","chart_type":"bar","ranking":true,"x_label":"City","y_label":"Murders per 100,000 people","unit":null,"points_count":314,"source":{"name":"FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program","url":"https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work); source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program","url":"https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright"},"data_as_of":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-11-04T16:14:48.927Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/murder-rate-by-city-over-100000","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/murder-rate-by-city-over-100000","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/murder-rate-by-city-over-100000/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/murder-rate-by-city-over-100000/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/murder-rate-by-city-over-100000/embed","credit":"FBI Crime Data 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