6 Cities With Fastest-Rising Crime Rates

San Luis Obispo tops the list, with crimes up 58%

By Arden Dier, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 22, 2016 5:51 PM CST

Copied

6 Cities With Fastest-Rising Crime Rates — In this July 7, 2015 photo, authorities work the scene of a double homicide in Milwaukee. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via AP)

Is there something in the air in San Luis Obispo? The number of violent crimes including rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, and murders, spiked 58% in the metropolitan area from 2010 to 2014, making it home to the fastest-rising crime rate of any US city. Interestingly, the crime rate 30 miles away in Santa Maria fell 35% during the same time period, reports 24/7 Wall St. Other areas where violent crimes have jumped, per 100,000 people:

San Luis Obispo, Calif., 58%
Sioux Falls, SD, 41%
Green Bay, Wis., 39%
Milwaukee, Wis., 37%
Madera, Calif., 34%
Grand Junction, Colo., 31%

Check out the world's most violent cities or the least violent US states. (Read more violent crime stories.)

Report an error