They had fewer homicides than the national average.
El Paso, Texas looking toward Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Photo: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Several communities along the U.S.-Mexico border saw homicide rates fall last year to levels that are well below the national average, according to an Axios analysis of the latesthad a homicide rate of 4.2 per 100,000 residents, compared to 6.3 nationwide. That was a drop for border cities from 2021, when they had a homicide rate of 4.7 per 100,000 residents.
Yuma, a community of 99,000 people, had the highest homicide rate and continued to have the highest rates of violent crime of all border cities.The same cities also saw jumps in overall violent crime in 2022, after seeing years of declines. The eight communities had a violent crime rate of 382 per 100,000 residents in 2022 — a 10% increase from the year before.Experts, police and elected officials don't know why rates stay so low compared to cities of the same size and similar demographics, but many point to research showingone of the most dangerous places in the Americas, had the lowest violent crime rate, with 197.1 crimes per 100,000 people.
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