What's surprising is the many places have ZERO deaths per 100000 people in 2001, and many more only had 1-5 deaths per 100000. However, there are hot spots of homicides. Gary Indiana and Fairfield Alabama rated highest at 79 deaths per 100000 and 97 per 100000 respectively. (That's not low if continued over time. Gary's rate gives you 790 deaths over 10 years time--meaning almost 1 person per 120. Imagine your high school class of 240 student losing 2 people within 10 years after graduation.)
A quick calculation:
54th percentile: 0 deaths/100,000 56th percentile: 1 61st percentile: 2 66th percentile: 3 71th percentile: 4 76th percentile: 5 80th percentile: 6
Some other high areas: Alabama: Birmingham (30 /100000), Fairfield (97), Washington, DC (41), Compton-California (48), Opa Locka- Florida (65), New Orleans(44), Detroit (41), St Louis (42), New York (43), Youngstown-Ohio (42), West Columbia-South Carolina (45),
Per the footnotes, the entry for NYC includes 2,823 homicides on 9/11/2001. Ajusting this entry would reduce it to 8 deaths / 100,000.
