23. New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a popular tourist destination famous for it’s jazz music, fabulous food, voodoo, and the annual Mardi Gras celebration. However New Orleans is actually quite a dangerous city. Many blame New Orleans as the reason for Louisiana leading the entire nation in murder. New Orleans had a violent crime rate of 1,121 per 100,000 residents. In 2017, there were a staggering 157 homicides in New Orleans. Your chances of being a victim of crime here are 1 in 19. However, the city has begun to curb violent crime with a new program dubbed Cure Violence. The poverty rate in New Orleans stands at 26.2%, and this city of nearly 400,000 has an unemployment rate of 5.1%.
