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A recent report from website NeighborhoodScout looked at the total violent crimes per 1,000 residents reported to the FBI to create the ranking. Monroe, Louisiana ranked second in 2017.
"People are leaving," says Andrew Schiller, CEO and founder of NeighborhoodScout. "There is no big business and economic hub that would draw a lot of talent to that place [or] lots of high-wage jobs that would push up the values of real estate.” Yet, Realtor.com reports that the median home list price in Monroe is $174,000, $100,000 lower than the national median, and potentially appealing for first-time homebuyers.
“A lot of people in Middle America think that they’re cozy and safe in the middle of the country far away from the big, evil cities on the East and West coasts,” says Schiller. But "big cities that are doing very well economically and have become more and more expensive, like New York, Los Angeles, and Boston, aren't on the [most dangerous] list." Monroe, which served as the headquarters of Delta Airlines from 1925 until 1941, when the airline moved to Atlanta, has been losing residents for years.
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