10 U.S. States With The Lowest Murder Rates

Interesting, the states fall into 3 geographical groupings, though I think the western grouping might have 2 separate reasons. The top spot increasing and remaining the lowest, though...

They are all concentrated in the North. I guess warmer climates make for hot-blooded brains.

Yeah, except Alaska has a pretty high murder rate.

or just it's hard to kill people when you are indoors all day because it's too damn cold to go outside.

Boston has a murder rate of 8.35 per 100,000 people. While it's certainly not the lowest in America (for example, in New York it's only 3.39), it's still below the murder rates of many major American cities. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

In general this is a collection slow growth, higher income, rural, higher educated, homogeneous populations. All of them them don't fit into all of the categories but most fit into at least 3. As result you have an older population that doesn't run into a lot of strangers and if they do they are likely to be accommodating to each other and less likely to be under financial pressure to do something criminal or prevent them from making bad decisions.

It is very encouraging to see some pretty massive drops in percentages among many of the states here. That being said, I would not be surprised to see Minnesota to fall off the list next year with the rather large increase of the recent homicide rate in Minneapolis.

I was bad at this 😢

How do people know this? I’m usually good at these kinds of quizzes but I just got bottom 6.8 percentile. There didn’t seem to be any sort of pattern, not dense or sparsely populated, not liberal or conservative, not East or West, not poor or rich. What am I missing? Edit: im f***ing stupid I thought the quiz was asking for highest murder rates

Surprised to see South Dakota but not North Dakota.

North Dakota probably would be on the list if it weren't for all of those killings that happen in Fargo :D

Interesting to see absolutely no correlation to the state's gun control laws.

Yeah. Pretty much everybody in Oregon owns a gun, at it was on the list