Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities in United States For 2007

We all want to live in a safe neighborhood, that goes without question. But if your city is on this list, do not expect property values to start soaring in the near term. With the housing slowdown and all the choices available, do not expect housing prices to appreciate greatly until these cities get their streets under control.

Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities in United States For 2007

  1. Detroit, MI
  2. St. Louis, MO
  3. FLint, MI
  4. Oakland, CA
  5. Camden, NJ
  6. Birmingham, AL
  7. North Charleston, SC
  8. Memphis, TN
  9. Richmond, CA
  10. Cleveland, OH

via CQ Press

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  1. Wow, I didn’t know some of these cities had it that bad. I knew about some, but not others.

  2. Tommy,

    Richmond and Oakland are bad in many ways but nothing compared to Washington D.C. when I lived there in the late 80’s and early 1990’s.

    At the height of the crack epidemic and Marian Barry’s tenure as mayor, we had one year with 485+ murders for a city with a population of less than 500,000. It was scary!

  3. I was raised in Oakland and have a home in richmond and yes it is bad, doesnt seem like it should be the worst in the US. I think its the cities fault there is nothing here to do period. And I think the authorities are focused on the wrong things. Sad i have to live and really enjoy living in the bay but i think it can be resolved. No one is taking it seriously except for the folks who have to live around it and how much can they control it?

  4. Yo hagerstown IN is the dagerouus place in the world somebody gets shot every 20 second yo. Yall are whcked up in the head. Google hagerstown and you see wat I’m talking bout fershizzle. I hav my 12 gauge wit me all da time

  5. They meant Richmond, VA.
    Quit getting your info from a BLOG!

  6. I’m from St.Louis,Mo live in the metro east everything they say about is true last we rank no.1 for most dangerous city but i’m glad it drop down i’m currently in gerogia.

  7. READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I’ve lived in philly all my life and i feel its the worst out of all these cities but its not evevt lised on hear! philly is really dangerous. Just a couple months ago philly was listed #1 for most dangerous cities they event said it on Cnn they had a whole special on it 3 months ago .im not sure whats goin on but they need to get there damn facts right cause philly needs a lot of help!

  8. we all kno memphis speaks for it self

  9. ayo southwest detroit is mos def da worst place in da COUNTRY maybe even da world detroit was named da murda capital of da u.s 4 bout 4 yrs straight…we need 2 get da detroit area cleaned up speacially southwest side

  10. I THINK ALL OF US WHO ARE IN ROUGH CITIES THINK OURS IS THE WORST, BUT THEY RANK THESE STATISTICS ON OVER 1000 CITIES….. I THINK THE BIG PICTURE IS THERE ARE TOO MANY DANGEROUSE CITIES PERIOD! AND ALL OF THE CITIES OFFICIALS NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON CRIME. MY CITY, HAD OPERATION 0 TOLERANCE… ITS WORKING, THERE IS STILL HOMICIDES, BUT THEY HAVE SLOWED DOWN.WE HAVE POLICE ON ALMOST EVERY BLOCK. AND ITS NEEDED AND OVERDUE,BUT COSTLY.FRANKLY TOO MANY OF US SEE THINGS AND HEAR THINGS…. IF YOU CAN MOVE TO THE BURBS. I DID.SAFER FOR THE CHILDREN.

  11. okay, i am going to put it easy and simple. detroit is paradise compared to other cities in the world. tell one of thos thugs to visit or even see a favela in brazil or a slum in cite soleil,haiti, they will die instantly. they will crap on their pants on their way there.

  12. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA COMPLAINNIG THEIR POOR AND THAT THEIR CITIES ARE GHETTOES. I AM NOT AMERICAN AND WHEN I ARRIVED HERE, I SAW HOMELESS PEOPLE AND I THOUGHT THEIR RICHER THAN THE RICHEST PERSON IN ANY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. WHY ( BECAUSE HOMELESS, THUGS WHATEVER HERE HAVE A STABLE GOVERNMENT, OCIAL SERVICES, FOOD STAMP, HEALTH CARE, WELFARE, HOUSING ETC I CAN GO ON FOREVER. GUESS WHAT MOST THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES DON’T EVEN HAVE ONE OF THOSE. SO STOP COMPLAIGNING AND BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY ( FUCKEN CRY BABIES)

  13. CAMDEN… NEED I SAY MORE

  14. C.M.D. WE SO HOOD!!!

  15. detroit and flint…..yea were on that bitch twice….one of my best friends died in a driveby right next to me….its pretty rough here……good luck if u visit and make it out alive…….trust no one….trust will get you killed

  16. First off, Philly, Mo-town, St. Louis and Cleveland are all a mess. Crime, gangs and drugs all have really impacted these cities, causing their ranks to go up. I am from Miami Fl, and live in Ft. Lauderdale currently. I know crime has gone down some the last couple of years but trust me, Miami is the most dangerous city in America. The people who live here are different, must of them are comfortable with their life of crime because they came from third world counties where crime is survival. Go to any ghetto down here, Overtown, Brownsville, Opa-Locka, Carol City, its a different type of animal over here

  17. birmingham is the most dangerous city all through out my nigga u thank its hillbilly country but cum down des bitch an step foot n da wrong hood lik kingston projects or smithfield ask around bout da ham nigga already dog

  18. da ham is da most dangerous of all ask around my nigga

  19. Statistics speak for themselves. How you gonna say your city is more dangerous when your cities numbers compare nothing to other ‘Higher ranked’ ones??? And numbers is what its all about. Think about it. And dont say your city is more dangerous when you’ve never even been to the ones your comparing it too.

  20. all these cities have nothing on Baton rouge Louisiana and New orleanes .Baton rouge is the Dumway it has ghettos everywhere south to north east and west and some of the best rappers we you all don’t hear much about but it has killing evey day just last week a kid brought a gun to our school and was about to kill a whole lot of people.baton rouge is the dumway jigga city for all that don’t with that mean we pop jiggas

  21. I live in Memphis, and I feel that it is a shame that we are on this list again. Crime is bad every where and seem as though people are making comments about their city as if it’s cool that crime rate is high. THAT IS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF. PEOPLE WAKE UP AND STOP THE VIOLENCE. this is an complete outrage.

  22. man miami got the most crime.fuck that

  23. miami We 3rd world niggas like david said this shit aint even like steppin in america..We git the highest crime rate hands down!.Spanish is the primary language and there drugs on every corner even out west in the nicer parts robberies galore everyday and a massive amount of different ghettos.As far as most dangerous i gotta give it tio LA ,use to live there and its a warzone a whole different mentality then any other city in the world.

  24. cuzo im from oakland homie, and california alone got 4 cities on the top 25 most dangerous. fuck the cities california is the most dangerous state. westside

  25. All you online gangstas are all fronts. Like what others posted here, claim what u want, but if ur city aint on the top 10, then it aint really shit. Still, iono why u alls think its cooh that u live in a bad ass city. Who the fuck wants to live in a spot where u always gotta watch yo back and be on this shit proud of it? Hahaha claimin “my city is the most dangerous” shit would be off the hook funny if yo ass got shot while you typin your lil comment.

  26. man lynwood, is crazy yo….somebodii alwayz die in dis place ma nigg, somebodii is alwayz claiming shiit, naybors r alwayz fighting and stuff fershizzle…..i am writing dis becuz i am a victim and got shot in the ass

  27. Hi my name is keith i live in the hard city of compton where girls get stolen and houses get broken into and old people get slapped and people on well-fare dats sum shit like on da hood man no games im the real deal i be on da low doe cuz wen shit pop the fuck off i break out my be be gun u feel me or the water gun like slash slash like bomb dig a de nigga

  28. The boot, U heard bout us we worldwide. Nothing but real nigga slim,bg,wayne,webbie,boosie, every nigga u kno from tha boot rap that gangster shit. Like slim say, i keep that motherfuckin heata on me. RIP!

  29. dont ever come to cincinnati, oh everyone is on some bullshit

  30. I’m from New Orleans, 9th Ward, but raised in Dallas, and I thought that New Orleans was the dangerous city, but when I go to Dallas then that shit is on some other level. Some of these cities seems so bad because of the population. You have to look at other crimes such as burgarly, robbery, rape and assults and other stuff to consider a city to be the most dangerous. Dallas is ranked in the top ten in all that crazy stuff. Then Dallas has over a Million people, as to New Orleans is like 400, 000 plus. So larger citites such as Philly, Detroit, and Even D.C.(onl 500,000 plus) gives the nods on being the most dangerous because of population. (in my opinion

  31. This blog is nothing less than a forum on bragging rights for who has the most messed up city. For those of you who thought your’s was so bad that you shoulda had the top spot: Well it ain’t, it can get worse and it is worse elsewhere.

    Quit being proud about it. Then, quit your bitchin’ and DO something about it. It’d be nice to see people put some effort into change as opposed to just complaining. I don’t care what you have to do. Start a fucking revolution but don’t just sit there, bitch and then do nothing. Our generation is so fucking lazy and the one that’s coming after us will be no better at the rate we’re going.

    And as far as abroad goes: Anthony is completely right. Poeple get shot and killed right on the beach in Brazil, nowhere near the favela. So just guess what the favela is like. Cities in Argentina are no better. An aquaintance lost an eye leavin a club cause some juvenilles started throwing bricks and rocks at them. Fuck, the cops kill protestors in Argentina. Cuba was safe but they have a damn dictatorship so tight on the population they don’t even dare talk to foreigners much less mug, rape or kill them. There’s your saftey.

  32. i on’t know who da most dangerous but i know DA TOWN(Oakland) is the realest.hands down……..ask any nigga who visit the town betchu dey say is real.

  33. ok im from baltimore md. ive lived in pg county and d.c. also. im telling all yall right now. ive been to brazil and to the ghettos of hati. those m-fs down there dont play at all yall. straight too that ass. look everybody has a bad town. we lucky to have what we have. man they have 6 and 7 yr old kids gunning people down. man i happy to be alive and not near that crazy shit. i love all yall.

  34. yall claim your cities so hard but there are cities that are in the us that have murders off the charts but arent on record, thats the thing the cities you all name are all high in murders that are on record, but a city in virginia called,”Norfolk,VA” that is the most dangerous city in the US of A the city has a murder or a group of people dying every night in several sections of the city every night, everybody has a gun in norfolk, drive by city.

    and please i heard a guy on this page say that dallas is worse than New Orleans? thats some bullsh1t, thank about it, you wouldnt step foot in Melphamine, Magnolia and Calliope aint no way, i was scared of going down in that area and im from mississippi, and thats that state where dem heads git bussed, so get off it son, NEW ORLEANS, NORFOLK, BATON ROUGE, JACKTOWN, ATLANTA, RATCHET CITY, and all da deep south run it mane.

  35. Oakland is all heat my nigga, you gotta watch yo neck errywhere you go folk. I seen a nigga head blasted wide open when I was chillin wit my bloods ya heard me. Disrespect the town, that’ll be one of ya’ll J-Cat ass niggas ya heard.

  36. Why is everyone always sayin “my city the hardest its the most ghetto city in america” when your city aint even on the list. Face it…you and your city aint as hard as yall thought you were. Like folks in miami you dont got heat the way california does. Not only is cali on it twice its got two cities in the bay. Oakland and Richmond. 510.

  37. RE: B-RAD…lol….No one uses the word wack anymore, kids stopped saying anything with the ending of “shizzle” back in 04′ and anyone claiming to have a 12 gauge is definitely stuck in the 90’s music video. It is soooooo obvious the majority of these posts are based on stereotypes from an individual (s) who really has nothing better to do. Therefore, placing themselves in their own stereotype. I find this ironic.

  38. ALL IMA SAY IZ IM FROM DC AND WE AINT UP THERE ITS BAD HERE OF THE CHAIN POLICE GOTTA HAVE ALL HANDS ON DECK OUT JOINT MAN AND WE SMALLER EVEN WORSE AND REMEMBER WE HOME OF RAYFUL EDMONDS I SAY NO MORE HOLLA!

  39. Seriously do ya research. I’m borned and stay in Birmingham, Alabama these stupid humans just shot 6 people in the past 7 days… Seriously and itz all city not COWS and FARMS under most belief come down here and find out for yourself better yet dont come down here because you may not make it OUT…

  40. Flint, MI has been on this list for at least 20 years! Do not all these cities have Democrat mayors and government? I think so. Keep voting democrats in and this is what you get. G-Man cleaned up NYC no time flat.

  41. Where is houston at.. theres murders and break ins every day i thought for sure it would be one of the top cities

  42. I see Houston & Dallas aint on here…shit it go dyne out here to…outta townaz be thankin we all country & shit but just check out the rap scene…need I say more…come to south dallas oak cliff to be exact or get caught slippin in that tre in houston…but I got love foe all cities ya dig…we still aint got shit on a 3rd world country though…no us city foo…iraq have mo murdaz then all us cities combined they die in the hundreds & thousands we don’t have suicide bombers so yall shut that shit up asap…

  43. H-ToWn,Tx Acres Homes tha 44,Dead End,The Bloody Nickel aka 5th Ward,Sunnyside,Southpark,Southwest,Homestead,Lockwood,M.L.K. on a Sunday,Garden City the Bricks,Northwood Manor,Kashmere Gardens,Trinity Garden,South Bank,Gulf Bank,Greenspoint aka Guns~point don’t get it twisted,W. Little York,Rosewood home of the jackaz…Hiram Clarke,Studewood I’m tellin u man h-town we too deep foo…we don’t trip on red or blue its all about that green $$$ rather it me money or wead that’s how it go dyne…we aint trippin but if u thank u gone come down here & run shit u bought to be in foe a rude awakining…like that boi big pokey said it aint no nawf & south its h-town bitch & we gone ride foe tha house

  44. i lived in baltimore and its realy bad its population is low and has about 300 some odd murders each year.

  45. [...] If your city does not rank among the nation’s ten most violent places to live, you may not have as much trouble sleeping after reading [...]

  46. mann the town an the rich hands down is the craziest cities out there forreal…niggas be thinkin cali niggas aint bout shit but u bring yo ass to the bay u betta come correct…it aint braggin or nothin bt its jus too many hoods alone in jus the east by itself thats hard as hell…i dont know tho it mite be otha cities thats crazy too cuz i aint been everywhere bt i do kno its real out here in the bay

  47. ALL ABOUT THE FIVEONEOH BABY.
    WE STAY IN OAKLAND.

  48. I CAN’T BELIEVE DAT L.A AINT IN DIS LIST….FUKC DAT I NOE L.A IS WORSE DEN ANY OF DESE OTHER WAKC ASS CITIES….I FUKCEN HEAR GUNSHOTS SO MANY TIMES IN ONE FUKCEN DAY…PEOPLE BE DYIN LIKE CRAZY OVER HERE AND DEY TRY TO SAY DAT A LIL ASS CITY LIKE NEW ORLEANS OR DETRIOTS IS WAY MORE GHETTO DEN L.A…FUCK DAT I LIVE IN WATTS….AND ALL YALL R FUKCIN WAKC IF U THINK DAT L.A AINT GHETTO..

  49. I doubt anyone even reads this anymore but I have to say most of these people commenting are really stupid. These statistics aren’t taken from blogs or media the info is taken from homicides per percentage of population and other investigated/convicted crimes on these cities documented records. Even if there are more total homicides in your city then there is more people that’s why it isn’t on there. Second of all people complaining about how great these cities are compared to other places, read the page. This page isn’t about other places its about this country here, not anywhere else, shut your ignorant mouths and read the page you searched. Last of all turning on your caps lock doesn’t make your post seem more important, it just annoys people like myself and makes us hate you.

  50. Baltimore Md. is pretty rough so many drug dealers…

    Speaking of which, Balt. just recently had the biggest drug bust of 2009 so far, they found an old abandoned warehouse full of coke, meth, heroin, you name it they had it
    the drug they had the most of was cokaine of coarse
    it went down in Md. history as their biggest drug bust ever.

  51. ya’ll gotta give it to new orleans, we were the murder capital from 1991-2004 i know ya’ll talkin bout car jackins and robberies makes it bad but dat shit normal to us its the murders we had enuff murders to cover most citys carjackings and robberies so dat aint shit, after the hurricanes we sent houston crime rates high as fuk in like 2 months just off murders, but dats facts i know everybody talk dat but dats real, in l.a. dey got shit goin down to but not murders, wat yall more scard of being carjacked or murdered?? i been in l.a. to dem niggas like fightin and trying to stabb n shit mostly der mexicans but ak-47’s wif banna clips and drums would have dat whole city in panic

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