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Originally Posted by Emprise du Lion
Well hell. A neighborhood in St. Louis had a murder rate of 290.8 per 100,000 last year. It will be higher this year, as the number of homicides there has increased by 2.
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsb...murder-capital
I will say though that the article does raise a good point about using rates when dealing with a neighborhood of roughly 6,000 people. It's certainly a horrifically dangerous place, but St. Louis' small neighborhoods with small populations don't lend themselves well to comparison.
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North St. Louis is pretty troubled area as well. If we combine 30 northern neighborhoods we also get pretty horrific numbers. We also have to take into account population decline rate based on previous two censuses, because those are still crime plagued, impoverished areas and there is little to no hope that population decrease rate is declining. Here are the numbers for 2015:
Neighborhoods with murder rate over 300:
- Mark Twain I-70 Ind,
- Greater Ville.
Neighborhoods with murder rate between 200 and 300:
- Wells/Goodfellow,
- Jeff Wanderlou,
- College Hill,
- Fountain Park,
- Hyde Park,
- Mark Twain.
Neighborhoods with murder rate between 100 and 200:
- Near North Riverfront,
- Kingsway West,
- Kingsway East,
- Penrose,
- Baden,
- Hamilton Heights,
- Walnut Park West,
- Fairground,
- The Ville,
- North Riverfront.
Neighborhoods with murder less than 100:
- Grand Center,
- Old North St. Louis,
- West End,
- Walnut Park East,
- Academy,
- North Point,
- Vandeventer,
- Lewis Place.
- O'Fallon,
- Carr Square,
- Columbus Square,
- Visitation Park.
Note: Those are really small, uncomparable to Chiraq's, neighborhoods where 1 murder can generate a murder rate of 195 and in one case 4 murders generated murder rate of 316.
Above is the picture of the listed neighborhoods. Hoods painted in black have murder rate above 300, hoods painted in dark red have murder rate between 200 and 300. Hoods painted in red have murder rates between 100 and 200. Hoods painted in orange have murder rates less than 100.
North St. Louis:
Population in 2015:
92.000
Area: 21.5 square miles
Number of murders:
139
Murder rate:
150.6
So yeah, North STL also became skyrocketing dangerously area and we could put it side to side with worst areas of Chiraq.