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NYC Murders and Homicide Rates in Five Big Cities, 1990–2025: New York, London, Paris, Toronto and Tokyo, Each Counted by Its Own Police per 100,000 Residents

Aggregate statistics from the article “New York's murder rate has fallen 88% since 1990 and is still more than three times London's”

No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.

Records
Aggregate statistics
Place
New York City
Version
1.0,
Licence
CC BY 4.0; code MIT
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New York's murder rate has fallen 88% since 1990 and is still more than three times London's (version 1.0)

In 2025 New York had 3.6 murders per 100,000 residents, the highest of five big cities and more than three times London's 1.1, after falling 88% since 1990.

What it shows

The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: NYPD CompStat citywide report for the week to 25 October 2026, its table of the seven major felonies 2000-2025 and its complaint records by month; New York State DCJS index crimes 1990-2000; the Metropolitan Police's homicide dashboard data 2003-2025, its borough crime file to September 2026 and its release of 12 January 2026; SSMSI's departmental base 2016-2025; the Toronto Police Service's homicide open data to September 2026; Statistics Canada Table 35-10-0071, 1981-2025; the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's statistical yearbooks 2016-2025 and the National Police Agency's crime statistics for January to September 2026; population estimates from the Census Bureau, ONS, INSEE, Statistics Canada and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Files

Each file's columns are under Columns below and in data_dictionary.csv.

FileRowsSizeWhat it holds
data.csv 146 6 KB The data
analysis.py 32 KB The analysis script

Columns

data.csv: The data (5 columns)

The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.

city, year, homicides, population, per_100k. The article and its script define each one.

Licence and credit

Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.

Credit it as:

SparkyData (2026). NYC Murders and Homicide Rates in Five Big Cities, 1990–2025: New York, London, Paris, Toronto and Tokyo, Each Counted by Its Own Police per 100,000 Residents (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-homicide-rates-five-big-cities
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