The following article is a list of cities sorted by homicide rates in the world, excluding active war zones. The homicide rate of a city is an imprecise tool for comparison, as the population within city borders may not best represent an urban or metropolitan area with varying rates in different areas.

This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. (June 2023)

The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people.^[1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.^[2]

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	City	Country	Homicides	Population	Per 100,000
1	Colima	Mexico	601	330,329	181.94
2	Zamora	Mexico	552	310,575	177.73
3	Ciudad Obregón	Mexico	454	328,430	138.23
4	Zacatecas	Mexico	490	363,996	134.62
5	Tijuana	Mexico	2,177	2,070,875	105.12
6	Celaya	Mexico	740	742,662	99.64
7	Uruapan	Mexico	282	360,338	78.26
8	New Orleans	United States	266	376,971	70.56
9	Ciudad Juárez	Mexico	1,034	1,527,482	67.69
10	Acapulco	Mexico	513	782,661	65.55
11	Mossoró	Brazil	167	264,181	63.21
12	Cape Town	South Africa	2,998	4,758,405	63.00
13	Irapuato	Mexico	539	874,997	61.60
14	Cuernavaca	Mexico	410	681,086	60.20
15	Durban	South Africa	2,405	4,050,968	59.37
16	Kingston	Jamaica	722	1,235,013	58.46
17	Baltimore	United States	333	576,498	57.76
18	Nelson Mandela Bay [lower-alpha 1]	South Africa	687	1,250,484	56.99
19	Salvador	Brazil	2,085	3,678,414	56.68
20	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	1,596	2,915,000	54.75
21	Manaus	Brazil	1,041	2,054,731	50.66
22	Feira de Santana	Brazil	327	652,592	50.11
23	Detroit	United States	309	632,454	48.86
24	Guayaquil	Ecuador	1,537	3,141,793	47.77
25	Memphis	United States	302	632,464	47.75
26	Vitória da Conquista	Brazil	184	387,524	47.48
27	Cleveland	United States	168	367,991	45.65
28	Natal	Brazil	569	1,262,741	45.06
29	Cancun	Mexico	406	920,865	44.09
30	Chihuahua	Mexico	414	944,413	43.84
31	Fortaleza	Brazil	1,678	3,936,509	42.63
32	Cali	Colombia	1,007	2,392,381	42.09
33	Morelia	Mexico	359	853,831	42.05
34	Johannesburg	South Africa	2,547	6,148,353	41.43
35	Recife	Brazil	1,494	3,745,082	39.89
36	Maceió	Brazil	379	960,667	39.45
37	Santa Marta	Colombia	280	712,896	39.28
38	León	Mexico	782	2,077,830	37.64
39	Milwaukee	United States	214	569,330	37.59
40	Teresina	Brazil	324	868,523	37.30
41	San Juan	Puerto Rico	125	337,300	37.06
42	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	278	771,627	36.03
43	Buenaventura	Colombia	157	315,743	35.16
44	Ensenada	Mexico	157	449,425	34.93
45	Distrito Central	Honduras	389	1,185,662	32.81
46	Philadelphia	United States	516	1,576,251	32.74
47	Cartagena	Colombia	403	1,287,829	31.29
48	Palmira	Colombia	110	358,806	30.66
49	Cúcuta	Colombia	296	1,004,451	29.47
50	San Luis Potosí	Mexico	365	1,265,177	29.06

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Homicide rate top 50: Number of cities by country

Country	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Mexico	15	18	18	18	17
Brazil	14	10	11	11	10
United States	4	3	5	7	7
Colombia	2	3	2	4	6
South Africa	3	3	4	4	4
Honduras	2	2	2	2	2
Jamaica	1	1	1	1	1
Puerto Rico	1	1	1	1	1
Haiti	0	0	1	1	1
Ecuador	0	0	0	1	1
Venezuela	6	6	6	No data	No data
Guatemala	1	1	0	0	0
El Salvador	1	0	0	0	0

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