The Strategic Assessment of the St. Louis Region

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1 The Strategic Assessment of the St. Louis Region 7th Edition, 2015 WHERE The 7th Edition of Where We Stand (WWS) presents 222 rankings comparing St. Louis to the 50 most populated metropolitan areas in the United States. Since 1992 East-West Gateway has produced WWS to ignite discussion and help guide decision making. WWS covers a range of topics important to the region including demographics, the economy, and education. This edition includes 90 new measures on topics such as innovation, segregation, and economic opportunity. This document is a portion of the full publication. Download additional chapters, the entire Where We Stand publication, and/or WWS data at This publication was supported, in part, by a grant provided from the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Missouri Department of Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation. The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, or the Federal Transit Administration. The East-West Gateway Council of Governments (EWG) hereby gives public notice that it is the policy of the agency to assure full compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, Executive Order on Environmental Justice, and related statutes and regulations in all programs and activities. Title VI requires that no person in the United States of America shall, on the grounds of race, color, sex, or national origin, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity for which EWG receives federal financial assistance. Any person who believes they have been aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practice under Title VI has a right to file a formal complaint with EWG. Any such complaint must be in writing and filed with EWG s Title VI Coordinator within one hundred eighty (180) days following the date of the alleged discriminatory occurrence. For more information, or to obtain a Title VI Discrimination Complaint Form, please see our web site at or call (314) or (618)

2 WHERE Total Rate See page 109 for WWS table with complete data and rankings Where We Stand 7th Edition 107

3 WHERE The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) publishes crime statistics voluntarily reported by local, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies via the Uniform Reporting (UCR) program. Not all of the peer regions are included in these tables; the UCR does not report crime statistics for MSAs for which not enough agencies submit data, or if the FBI determines that data was under-reported, overreported, or does not comply with the national UCR Program guidelines. The FBI cautions data users against comparing the crime data of law enforcement agencies due to the number of factors that can affect crime itself as well as how crime is reported or recorded. The WWS tables do not compare individual agencies nor are the rankings meant to imply that one region is safer than another. The tables are intended to provide readers with an indication of how reported crime compares to that of other metropolitan regions. The occurrence and reporting of crime is affected by a variety of factors, including citizens attitudes toward crime, the policies, resources, and effectiveness of law enforcement and the criminal justice system, economic conditions, population density, and degree of urbanization in an area, among other factors. 1 peer regions. Over the last 10 years the number of murders in St. Louis has remained around 200 per year. Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. The property crime rate of 2,670 crimes per 100,000 population ranks St. Louis as 32nd among 47 peer regions. About three-fourths of property crimes in St. Louis are larceny-theft, including attempted larcenies. Violent Rate St. Louis MSA and United States, 1991 to 2013 Over the past 22 years violent and property crime rates in the St. Louis region and the United States were cut in half. From 2012 to 2013 the total crime rate, which includes violent and property crimes, decreased in most of the peer MSAs with a 4.8 percent reduction in the United States and a 7.3 percent reduction in the St. Louis MSA. Property Rate St. Louis MSA and United States, 1991 to 2013 In 2013 the St. Louis crime rate was 3,102 crimes per 100,000 population, ranking St. Louis 30th among the 44 peer regions for which data are available. Violent crime includes the offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The violent crime rate in the St. Louis region was 432 crimes per 100,000, ranking 18th among 45 peer regions. Looking solely at murder and non-negligent manslaughter, the estimated rate in the St. Louis region was 7.2 per 100,000 population in The murder rate in St. Louis is higher than the national average (4.5) and higher than most other 1 Uniform Reporting Statistics: Their Proper Use, FBI, January Where We Stand 7th Edition

4 Total Rate Property Rate Violent Rate Murder Rate Change in Total Rate Percent change, Memphis 5,183 2 San Antonio 4,875 3 Salt Lake City 4,705 4 Oklahoma City 4,459 5 Seattle 4,347 6 Birmingham 4,252 7 Miami 4,229 8 San Francisco 4,130 9 Houston 4, Orlando 3, Jacksonville 3, Kansas City 3, Atlanta 3, Las Vegas 3, Milwaukee 3, Baltimore 3, New Orleans 3, Austin 3, Cincinnati 3, Charlotte 3, Dallas 3, Virginia Beach 3, Nashville 3, Portland 3, Sacramento 3, Buffalo 3, Detroit 3, Tampa 3, Riverside 3, St. Louis 3,102 United States 3, Denver 3, Philadelphia 2, Minneapolis 2, Providence 2, Richmond 2, San Jose 2, Los Angeles 2, San Diego 2, Raleigh 2, Washington, D.C. 2, Hartford 2, Boston 2, Pittsburgh 2, New York 2,000 1 San Antonio 4,415 2 Salt Lake City 4,348 3 Memphis 4,190 4 Seattle 4,023 5 Oklahoma City 3,956 6 Birmingham 3,723 7 Miami 3,691 8 San Francisco 3,572 9 Houston 3, Indianapolis 3, Louisville 3, Orlando 3, Atlanta 3, Kansas City 3, Jacksonville 3, Austin 3, New Orleans 3, Cincinnati 3, Milwaukee 3, Dallas 3, Las Vegas 3, Virginia Beach 3, Baltimore 3, Portland 2, Charlotte 2, Riverside 2, Sacramento 2, Denver 2, Buffalo 2, Tampa 2,732 United States 2, Nashville 2, St. Louis 2, Minneapolis 2, Detroit 2, Philadelphia 2, Richmond 2, San Jose 2, Providence 2, Chicago 2, Raleigh 2, Los Angeles 2, Hartford 2, San Diego 2, Washington, D.C. 2, Boston 1, Pittsburgh 1, New York 1,610 1 Memphis Las Vegas Baltimore Nashville Milwaukee Detroit Houston San Francisco Orlando Miami Birmingham Oklahoma City Philadelphia Jacksonville New Orleans Kansas City San Antonio St. Louis Buffalo Sacramento Charlotte Tampa Phoenix New York Atlanta 389 United States Salt Lake City Boston Los Angeles San Diego Providence Riverside Dallas Washington, D.C Denver Seattle Virginia Beach Pittsburgh Cincinnati Minneapolis Austin Hartford Portland San Jose Richmond Raleigh New Orleans Memphis Baltimore Detroit Birmingham Indianapolis Kansas City St. Louis Jacksonville Philadelphia Milwaukee Virginia Beach Miami Chicago Richmond Houston Oklahoma City Atlanta Las Vegas Charlotte Buffalo Riverside Louisville Phoenix Cincinnati San Francisco San Antonio Los Angeles 4.5 United States Dallas Tampa Sacramento Pittsburgh Orlando Washington, D.C Denver New York Hartford Nashville San Jose Austin Raleigh Minneapolis Providence San Diego Seattle Boston Salt Lake City Portland Baltimore Salt Lake City Las Vegas Denver San Diego Orlando Atlanta Virginia Beach Birmingham New Orleans San Antonio Boston Dallas Washington, D.C Tampa Memphis Detroit Cincinnati Los Angeles -4.8 United States Providence Sacramento Portland Miami Richmond Buffalo Kansas City Jacksonville Milwaukee St. Louis Austin Nashville Riverside Raleigh San Jose Oklahoma City Hartford -9.9 Where We Stand 7th Edition 109

5 WHERE Sources and Notes (Page 109) Total Rate, Property Rate, Violent Rate, Murder Rate, and Change in Total Rate present offenses known to law enforcement agencies and voluntarily reported to the Uniform Reporting (UCR) Program. The UCR includes data for MSAs only if 75 percent of the law enforcement agencies report data and the agencies for the principal city/cities report 12 months of complete data. For the MSAs that meet this standard, data for agencies that do not report or do not report complete data are estimated. The UCR does not report data if the FBI determines that the agency s data were over-reported, under-reported, or did not follow national UCR Program guidelines. Total Rate is comprised of violent crime and property crime. Data are not available for Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Phoenix. Property Rate includes the offenses of burglary, larcenytheft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Data are not available for Cleveland, Columbus, and Phoenix. Violent Rate includes the offenses of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Data are not available for Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Louisville. Murder Rate includes the offenses of murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Data are not available for Cleveland and Columbus. Change in Total Rate: Data are not available for 14 regions due to a lack of data in one or both years or a change in reporting practices that makes the data incomparable. The FBI changed the definition of rape in The 2012 crime data uses the legacy definition, while the 2013 crime data uses the revised definition., 2012 and 2013 in the United States (Table 6) Charts (Page 108) Violent Rate and Property Rate report data for the St. Louis MSA as it was delineated at the time. The boundary of the St. Louis MSA changed three times from 1991 to In 2005 and 2010 at least one state or local agency in the St. Louis MSA changed their reporting practices and the FBI warns against comparing data from previous years. In 2009 violent crime data in not available for the MSA because the data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois state UCR Program did not comply with national UCR Program guidelines. Data prior to 2003 is from the Where We Stand 6th Edition (it is no longer available by MSA from the FBI). Source: Where We Stand, 6th Edition; FBI, Uniform Reports, 2003 through 2013 in the United States Rank Order: For consistency, the peer regions are presented from highest to lowest numeric value in all WWS tables. The ordering of the data is not meant to suggest any positive or negative judgment associated with a given measure. In the WWS tables most data are rounded to the tenths place value (one digit after the decimal point) for presentation purposes. When possible the rank of the regions is based on the unrounded value (to the hundredth, thousandth, or more place value). In some instances there appears to be a tie between regions according to the value in the table, but the rank of the regions is based on the unrounded value. When peer regions have the same value according to the source data they are assigned the same rank. 110 Where We Stand 7th Edition