List of cities by murder 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 (2018)	Population (2018)	Homicides per 100,000 per year
1	Tijuana	Mexico	2,640	1,909,424	138
2	Acapulco	Mexico	948	857,883	111
3	Caracas	Venezuela	2,980	2,980,492	100
4	Ciudad Victoria	Mexico	314	365,089	86
5	Ciudad Juárez	Mexico	1,251	1,462,133	86
6	Irapuato	Mexico	473	580,808	81
7	Ciudad Guayana	Venezuela	645	823,722	78
8	Natal	Brazil	1,185	1,587,055	75
9	Fortaleza	Brazil	2,724	3,939,460	69
10	Ciudad Bolívar	Venezuela	264	382,095	69
11	Cape Town	South Africa	2,868	4,322,031	66
12	Belém	Brazil	1,627	2,491,052	65
13	Cancun	Mexico	547	848,465	64
14	Feira de Santana	Brazil	386	609,913	63
15	St. Louis	United States	187	308,626	61
16	Culiacán	Mexico	585	966,609	61
17	Barquisimeto	Venezuela	683	1,205,142	57
18	Uruapan	Mexico	189	346,640	55
19	Kingston	Jamaica	639	1,180,771	54
20	Obregón	Mexico	179	343,613	52
21	Maceió	Brazil	521	1,012,382	51
22	Vitória da Conquista	Brazil	172	338,885	51
23	Baltimore	United States	309	611,648	51
24	San Salvador	El Salvador	906	1,800,336	50
25	Aracaju	Brazil	463	949,342	49
26	Coatzacoalcos	Mexico	162	335,077	48
27	Palmira	Colombia	149	310,608	48
28	Maturín	Venezuela	257	544,069	47
29	Salvador	Brazil	1,849	3,914,996	47
30	Macapá	Brazil	233	493,634	47
31	Cali	Colombia	1,209	2,570,905	47
32	Celaya	Mexico	240	510,787	47
33	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	363	777,877	47
34	Ensenada	Mexico	253	542,896	47
35	Campos dos Goytacazes	Brazil	233	503,424	46
36	Tepic	Mexico	230	512,387	45
37	Manaus	Brazil	944	2,145,444	44
38	Recife	Brazil	1,738	3,975,411	44
39	Distrito Central (Tegucigalpa)	Honduras	538	1,242,397	43
40	San Juan	United States	143	337,288	42
41	Valencia	Venezuela	678	1,600,662	42
42	Reynosa	Mexico	295	711,130	41
43	Guatemala City	Guatemala	1,411	3,226,974	44
44	João Pessoa	Brazil	460	1,112,304	41
45	Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth)	South Africa	478	1,220,616	39
46	Detroit	United States	261	673,104	39
47	Durban	South Africa	1,562	4,055,969	39
48	Teresina	Brazil	324	861,442	38
49	Chihuahua	Mexico	352	938,713	38
50	New Orleans	United States	145	393,292	37

By country

Number of cities by country represented in the table

Country	No. of cities
Mexico	15
Brazil	14
Venezuela	6
United States	5
South Africa	3
Honduras	2
Colombia	2
Jamaica	1
El Salvador	1
Guatemala	1

See also

• Firearm death rates in the United States by state
• Homicide in world cities
• 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)