How many murders are in America today?
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In 2018, the US murder rate was 5.0 per 100,000, for a total of 15,498 murders.
Similarly, you may ask, how many murders a day in the US?
There were approximately 17,000 murders in the USA in 2017 according to FBI statistics. That works out to about 46 per day out of a total population of 330 million. So any one person's chance of being murdered each day is about 1 in 7 million, in a year about 1 in 20,000.
Also, how many murders were there in the US in 2019?
This year, there have been 66 mass-shooting deaths. On a per-month basis, mass shootings have so far been deadlier in 2019 than in 2018.
Alaska, the nation's largest and least densely populated state, now has a city with one of the highest murder rates anywhere in America.
NeighborhoodScout's Top 30 Murder Capitals of America – 2019
- East St. Louis, IL.
- Chester, PA.
- St.
- Gary, IN.
- Baltimore, MD.
- Pine Bluff, AR.
- Wilmington, DE.
- New Orleans, LA.