re: Baton Rouge and Knoxville - Tops in the SEC

The city of Knoxville is campus and a lot of very bad areas. There are some very affluent areas within city limits but the metro area (pop. 880,000) stats would probably be a more accurate representation.

Whenever crime statistics are loaded in for "Baton Rouge", it give you the numbers for the city parish. East Baton Rouge parish has a very unusual form of government. The actual population that the crime statistics are figured on is 445k.

Saying that, though, it is figured per 100k residents. So it should equal out. The problem is that the larger a city is, the more likely it is to have blight, undesirables, and ghettos. Places like Nashville are the exception, not the rule. Their population demographics are much different than most larger cities.

But no doubt they be thugging in Baton Rouge.

metro areas are a lot better way to see the actual population of a city.

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1. Nashville 658,602
2. Lexington 310,797
3. Baton Rouge 228,895
4. Knoxville 184,281
5. Columbia (S.C.) 132,067
6. Gainesville 128,460
7. Athens 119,648
8. Columbia (Mo.) 116,906
9. College Station 103,483
10. Tuscaloosa 96,122
11. Fayetteville 80,621
12. Auburn 60,258
13. Starkville 24,886
14. Oxford 21,757

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Metro population of Columbia, SC is well over 800k.

Not sure from where you are gleaning your numbers but I get the yearly trade journals for the construction industry and I'm looking at the just recently released 2016 3rd quarter numbers right now ... Columbia, SC (greater metro) is at 812,873 as of just five months ago. And that's not counting Lexington which would put ColaSC metro at over a million.

Bottom line for Columbia crime figures is a large black ghetto population that has taken over the northeast and parts of the St Andrews burroughs.