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   Rural South, West states have highest violent crime rates: FBI   
      
   Reported violent crime rate, 2024   
   Among reporting police agencies covering 95.6% of the U. S. population   
   A choropleth map showing the reported violent crime rate in each state in   
   2024. The map uses shades of orange to represent the number of violent   
   crimes per 100,000 residents. Alaska has the highest violent crime rate at   
   1,194 per 100,000 residents.   
   Violent crimes per 100,000 residents   
   100   
   1,200   
   Data: FBI; Map: Axios Visuals   
   Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation's   
   highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in   
   small communities, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data.   
   Why it matters: A state-by-state comparison paints a complex picture of U.   
   S. crime trends as President Trump threatens to send the National Guard to   
   Democrat-controlled cities in blue states over concerns about violent   
   crime.   
   The big picture: The president has already dispatched the National Guard to   
   Washington, D. C. , and is threatening to send troops to Chicago, Oakland,   
   Calif. , and Baltimore.   
      
   Now Trump is facing questions about whether he'll send troops to   
   communities in red states  many of them largely rural  where crime rates   
   are actually higher than the areas he's targeted.   
   "I want the criminals in red states to prevail because I get them" said   
   Trump   
      
   By the numbers: The southern states of Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama,   
   Arkansas and South Carolina were among the national leaders in both violent   
   crime and homicide rates last year, an Axios review of FBI data found.   
      
   All had violent crime and homicide rates well above the national average.   
   Alaska, the country's most rural state, led the nation with the highest   
   violent crime rate of 1,194.3 per 100,000 residents. That's more than three   
   times the national average of 359.1.   
   New Mexico, another rural state, was second with a violent crime rate of   
   757.7 per 100,000 residents, more than two times the national average.   
      
   Big states such as California and New York, both targets of Trump, ranked   
   high in total violent crime numbers because of their large populations, but   
   their per-capita rates were similar to those of Arkansas and Tennessee, the   
   Axios review found.   
   Zoom out: Alaska and New Mexico also led the nation in homicide rates with   
   11.3 homicides per 100,000 residents each, more than twice the nation's   
   homicide rate of 5 per 100,000 residents.   
      
   Pennsylvania was third nationally with a homicide rate of 10.1, followed by   
   Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee.   
   Illinois, home to Chicago, which Trump has called a "killing field, " had a   
   homicide rate of 6 per 100,000 residents, ranked 20th in the nation.   
      
   Zoom in: Big-city crime often receives the most attention in political   
   discourse, but an Axios analysis of rural states found that violence in   
   small towns is driving some of the nation's highest crime rates.   
      
   For example, Fairbanks, Ala. , population roughly 32,000, had a violent   
   crime rate of nearly 700 per 100,000 residents, about twice the national   
   average.   
   McKeesport, Pa. , a city of 18,000 outside Pittsburgh, had a violent crime   
   rate of 1,693.7 and a homicide rate of a whopping 32.5 per 100,000 people.   
   It consistently ranks among the most dangerous cities in the country, a   
   situation officials have largely atributed to a long-term decline in its   
   industrial economy.   
      
   Dyersburg, Tenn. , a community of 16,000, has a violent crime rate of   
   1,256.5 and a homicide rate of 18.8.   
      
   What they're saying: "If Washington, D. C. , (were) a state, it would have   
   the highest homicide rate of any state in the nation, " the White House   
   said in a statement on Aug. 11 before dispatching the National Guard.   
      
   D. C. 's homicide rate was 25.9 per 100,000 residents in 2024.   
      
   Yes, but: D. C. isn't a state, it's a city. Among the cities with the   
   highest homicide rates in the U. S. , Washington is ranked 11th, according   
   to an Axios review of cities with 100,000 people or more with high homicide   
   rates.   
      
   Jackson, Miss. , population about 141,500, had the nation's highest   
   homicide rate last year  nearly 78 per 100,000 residents. That's more than   
   15 times the national average. There has been no national discussion about   
   sending troops there to combat crime.   
      
   Between the lines: Rural crime often gets overlooked because most media   
   outlets are centered in urban areas and focus just on crime there, Ralph   
   Weisheit, a criminal justice professor at Illinois State University, tells   
   Axios.   
      
   The reasons for crime in rural areas vary, but Weisheit said in many cases,   
   communities have been ravaged by drug addiction.   
      
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