The Cities Where Americans Don’t Feel Safe - 24/7 Wall St.

The Cities Where Americans Don’t Feel Safe - 24/7 Wall St.

Of the 10 metropolitan statistical areas where the fewest people felt safe walking home at night, eight had crime rates above the national rate of 383.6 per 100,000 as of 2011. Among these cities was Memphis, which had the nation’s worst violent crime rate at just over 980 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. Stockton, with more than 820 violent crimes per 100,000 people, and Rockford, at more than 700 crimes per 100,000, also ranked high.
However, not all places where people felt unsafe had particularly high violent crime rates in 2011. For example, while residents reported feeling unsafe in the McAllen, Texas, and Yakima, Wash., metropolitan areas, both had violent crime rates below the national rate of 386 per 100,000 people.