This article describes Phoenix as a booming metropolis with affordable homes, diversified entertainment, and magnificent desert views. However, it stresses the significance of avoiding the city’s 10 worst crime districts for a high quality of life.
10 Worst Neighborhoods in Phoenix
1. Central City: Phoenix’s worst area, 315% over the national average, is known for violent crime including shootings, robberies, and property crime in certain districts.
2. Alahambra: The crime rate is 180% higher than the national average, including shootings, robberies, car and house theft, and drug trafficking.
3. Encanto: The most hazardous areas had a crime rate of 159% over the national average, including murders, assaults, pickpocketing, and auto theft.
4. South Mountain: A hazardous, destitute neighborhood with a crime rate 90% over the national average, notorious for drug trafficking, violent crime, and gang activity, with many citizens living below the poverty line.
5. North Mountain: Larceny, theft, and car theft are prevalent property crimes in concentrated regions of this one of the worst locations, with a population of 170,000 and a crime rate 102% over the national average.
6. Camelback East: Popular with visitors, overall crime rate 95% above national average, property theft, vandalism, and sporadic assaults, larger concentration in western and southern areas.
7. Maryvale: Northwest of Central City, population 208,189, crime rate 77% over national average, revitalizing, still struggling with property crimes, mainly house and car theft.
8. Estrella: Suburban neighborhood with high crime rates, population 90,255, overall crime rate 60% above national average, larceny, vandalism, burglary, auto theft, and assault, certain places more hazardous at night.
9. Laveen: Southwest of Downtown Phoenix, population 48,021, 52% over national average, numerous violent occurrences, complains regarding police presence.
10. New Village: Small suburban hamlet with 5,700 residents, somewhat higher crime than Phoenix average, overall safety, property crime and car theft reduced by a strong community watch program.
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