List of cities by homicide rate

The following 50 cities have the highest murder rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people, and all relevant data available online.

Rank	City	Country	Homicides (2016)	Population (2016)	Homicides per 100,000
1	Caracas	Venezuela	4,308	3,305,204	130.35
2	Acapulco	Mexico	918	810,669	113.24
3	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	845	753,864	112.09
4	Distrito Central (Tegucigalpa)	Honduras	1,027	1,206,897	85.09
5	Ciudad Victoria	Mexico	293	346,029	84.67
6	Maturín	Venezuela	499	592,574	84.21
7	San Salvador	El Salvador	1,483	1,778,467	83.39
8	Ciudad Guayana	Venezuela	727	877,547	82.84
9	Natal	Brazil	1,097	1,577,072	69.56
10	Fortaleza	Brazil	1,808	2,609,716	69.28
11	Belém	Brazil	1,633	2,422,481	67.41
12	Aracaju	Brazil	589	938,550	62.76
13	Cape Town	South Africa	2,434	4,005,000	60.77
14	St. Louis	United States	188	311,404	60.37
15	Feira de Santana	Brazil	375	622,639	60.23
16	Vitória da Conquista	Brazil	208	346,069	60.10
17	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	785	1,322,068	59.38
18	Cumaná	Venezuela	266	488,507	59.31
19	Campos dos Goytacazes	Brazil	275	487,186	56.45
20	Salvador	Brazil	2,180	3,984,583	54.71
21	Cali	Colombia	1,358	2,514,759	54.00
22	Tijuana	Mexico	871	1,641,570	53.06
23	Guatemala City	Guatemala	1,596	3,026,729	52.73
24	Culiacán	Mexico	469	905,265	51.81
25	Maceió	Brazil	529	1,021,709	51.78
26	Baltimore	United States	318	621,849	51.14
27	Mazatlán	Mexico	245	502,547	48.75
28	Recife	Brazil	1,887	3,940,456	47.89
29	Joao Pessoa	Brazil	530	1,114,039	47.57
30	Gran Barcelona	Venezuela	397	846,353	46.86
31	Palmira, Valle del Cauca	Colombia	142	306,727	46.30
32	Kingston	Jamaica	545	1,199,613	45.43
33	Sao Luis	Brazil	693	1,526,213	45.41
34	New Orleans	United States	176	389,617	45.17
35	Valencia	Venezuela	1,124	1,560,586	72.02
36	Detroit	United States	302	677,116	44.60
37	Ciudad Juárez	Mexico	607	1,391,180	43.63
38	Teresina	Brazil	363	847,430	42.84
39	Cuiabá	Brazil	365	856,706	42.61
40	Chihuahua	Mexico	369	878,062	42.02
41	Obregón	Mexico	133	324,788	40.95
42	Goiânia e Aparecida de Goiânia	Brazil	782	1,980,774	39.48
43	Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth)	South Africa	495	1,263,000	39.19
44	Armenia	Colombia	145	376,185	38.54
45	Macapá	Brazil	179	465,495	38.45
46	Manaus	Brazil	801	2,094,391	38.25
47	Vitoria	Brazil	681	1,813,977	37.54
48	Cúcuta	Colombia	305	824,406	37.00
49	Curitiba	Brazil	1,148	3,287,046	34.92
50	Durban	South Africa	1,261	3,662,000	34.43

By country

Number of cities by country represented in the table

Country	No. of cities
Brazil	19
Mexico	8
Venezuela	7
United States	4
Colombia	4
South Africa	3
Honduras	2
El Salvador	1
Guatemala	1
Jamaica	1

See also

• Crime and violence in Latin America
• Firearm death rates in the United States by state
• Homicide in world cities
• Latin American cities by murder rate
• List of Brazilian states by murder rate
• List of countries by firearm-related death rate
• List of countries by intentional death rate - homicide plus suicide.
• List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade
• List of countries by intentional homicide rate
• List of countries by life expectancy
• List of countries by suicide rate
• List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate
• List of Mexican states by homicides
• List of U.S. states by homicide rate
• List of United States cities by crime rate (2014). 250,000+
• Number of guns per capita by country
• Right to keep and bear arms in the United States
• United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000)
• United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000)