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Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
Then 2024 was the third consecutive year of decreasing homicides in Chicago. As 2024 ends, Johnson and Snelling again point to drops in homicides, shootings Data is through Dec. 31, 2024.
For the 2019 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2010 decennial population counts and 2011 through 2018 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Chicago’s homicide victims in 2024 are often young, Black and male. Most homicide victims in Chicago died as the result of gunshot wounds. Sources: City of Chicago; Tribune reporting and archives
English: Chicago homicide rate per 100,000 population, from 1870 to 2015. Data source 1870 to 1930 and 1931 and 1933 to 1959 FBI UCR reports. 1960 to 2014 from Chicago Police reports. 1932 from Annual Report of the Citizens' Association of Chicago December 1935 pg. 12, 1933 from Population from US Census.
Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a ...
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
There were 8,656 homicides in 177 U.S. cities over the past year, marking an average annual decrease of 12.8%, according to AH Datalytics, a company that tracks nationwide crime.