The crime statistics listed are for the M.S.A (Metropolitan Statistical Area). 2010 numbers are:
The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX M.S.A. had a population of 5,978,213 with 435 murders, or 7.3 per 100,000 people.
The New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA M.S.A. had a population of 19,042,526 with 899 murders, or 4.7 per 100,000 people.
It is the rate per 100,000 people that matters, not the raw number of crimes. New York M.S.A. is over 3X bigger than Houston.
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- Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:50 am
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Re: Wow! I new NY City was big but . . .
Well, if you want to talk numbers. The 2010 FBI uniform crime statistics lists 620.7 violent crimes per 100,000 people for Houston, while New York has 391.9. Houston's crime rate is 158% of New York's rate (58% higher).Heartland Patriot wrote:Houston PD, doing the math using slightly older numbers from Wikipedia, gives you a ratio of LEO-to-populace of 1 to 407...compare that to the every 234 of NYC. Despite the wonderfully increased LEO-to-populace ratio of NYC vs Houston, I'd much rather go to Houston. Yes, there are areas I would stay out of in Houston, but I'd rather not even go to NYC at all.
Here they are by category. All are rate per 100,000 people, per http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/cr ... es/table-6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;:
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Category Houston New York Houston/New York %
Violent crime 620.7 391.9 158%
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 7.3 4.7 155%
Forcible rape 25.8 10.1 255%
Robbery 237.1 164.2 144%
Aggravated assault 350.5 212.9 165%
Property crime 3,943.9 1,719.1 229%
Burglary 974.8 279.3 349%
Larceny-theft 2,599.3 1,300.6 200%
Motor vehicle theft 369.8 139.1 266%