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Originally Posted by Whitwabit
One stat you left out is -- what is the population for those counties that are in the 3% you mention ?? You say the US is a very safe place to live .. but do the people actually live in those safe places ..
Counties in and around Chicago have millions of inhabitants while counties in southern Illinois can have less then just a couple of thousand .. counties in the northern plain states may have just a few hundred living in them ..
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Les.b (correctly) notes that the per capita methodology militates against your worry about densely vs sparsely populated areas.
Also: if you look at those 3 percent of those counties where 70 percent of the country's homicides occur, *within* those counties, most of the homicides occur in a very specific isolated area, typically only several city blocks or streets. So it's not enough to just look at a single city, and say that's where all the homicides occur. It's within those cities / counties, almost all the homicides happen in a tiny little isolated area.
The reality remains: the vast majority of the US is very safe.