FBI Data

This system provides crime data from a database derived from FBI crime data. It contains crime rates for metropolitan central/principal cities and metropolitan suburban places for 1992 and 1997 - 2005. SOCDS also includes crime rates for the entire metropolitan area encompassing each city and the suburban area remainder. SOCDS provides two options for selecting crime data based on the Office of Management and Budget's(OMB) definition of metropolitan areas; 1) the past 1990 Standard for Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs/PMSAs) as established in June 30, 1999 and 2) the present 2000 Standard including both Metropolitan and Micropolitan Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) as established in December 2006. Data for the "Suburbs" are calculated as the data for the metropolitan area less the sum of the data for all central/principal cities (if any) in the metropolitan area. Please see Methodology & Definitions for more details. The following table displays the number of suburban cities presented in SOCDS Crime by year:


METROPOLITAN CITIES
MSAs/PMSAs
METROPOLITAN CITIES
CBSAs


METROPOLITANMICROPOLITAN

Central Cities Suburban Places Principal Cities Suburban Places Principal Cities Suburban Places
1992 542 6810 625 7146 594 1645
1997 542 7178 625 7549 595 1770
1998 542 7203 625 7577 595 1781
1999 542 7294 626 7679 595 1810
2000 542 7427 626 7822 595 1862
2001 542 7479 626 7885 595 1884
2002 542 7615 626 8042 596 1952
2003 542 7665 626 8114 596 1975
2004 542 7715 626 8169 596 2001
2005 542 7779 626 8236 596 2027
2006 542 7864 626 8322 595 2052
2007 542 7932 627 8398 596 2103
2008 542 8010 627 8480 596 2122
2009 542 8072 628 8544 596 2144
2010 542 8125 628 8610 596 2175

To retrieve a city's data, First choose its

State or Metropolitan Statistical Area (1990 Metropolitan Standard)

or its

State or Core Based Statistical Area (2000 Metropolitan Standard)

or to select the Frames version for faster access click on:

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