‘Is it safe?’: Foreign students consider college in Canada.

[TomSrOfBoston]

I posted this a couple of months ago in another thread. The differences in murder rates between American and Canadian cities is striking.

City
Population of central city, not metropolitan area
Murders
Murder Rate per 100,000 Population

Population estimates are for 2016 from Wikipedia.
Number of murders is from city police reports or the media.
Murder rates are not annualized.

Baltimore
600,000
222
37.0

Chicago
2,700,000
536
19.9

New York City
8,600,000
242
2.8

Boston
700,000
26
3.7

And by comparison:

Toronto
2,600,000
50
1.9

Montréal
1,900,000
13
0.7