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NeighborhoodScout.com uses the violent crime rate per 1,000 residents as its criteria to determine how likely you are to become a victim in each particular city.
It then shows the safest neighborhoods around those urban areas.
The worst for this year, it says, is Monroe, LA, with a crime rate of 29.4 per 1,000 residents, giving citizens a 1 in 34 chance of becoming a victim.
Bunched behind it is Memphis, TN (24.2 / 1 in 41); Saginaw, MI (23.8 / 1 in 42); Detroit, MI (22.6 / 1 in 44; and St. Louis, MO (22.6 / 1 in 44).
Camden cracked the top 20, with a crime rate of 16.5 per 1,000 residents and the chance that one of every 64 could become a crime victim, putting it at No. 14.
Trenton is No. 57, with a crime rate of 10.8 per 1,000 residents and a 1 in 93 chance of you becoming a victim.
Near the bottom of the list, at No. 97, is Paterson, with a crime rate of 9 per 1,000 residents and a 1 in 111 chance of any of them becoming a victim.
NeighborhoodScout set a minimum population of 25,000. It then compared those numbers to the amount of violent crimes reported in those cities -- including murder, rape, armed robbery and aggravated assault.
Plotted on maps with those concentrations are also the areas in and around the urban centers that are considered among the safest.
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