Violent Crime and Unemployment: A Correlation?

Violent Crime Offenses Rate per 100k divided by Unemployment

Created by: ajstryker

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Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons

Exploring if there is a correlation between the unemployment rate and violent crime. Of course, this, like all of these mashups are not scientific since all variables cannot be included. Will try adding, subtracting and multiplying the data to see what results.

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Rank	Region	Violent Crime Offenses Rate per 100k	÷	Unemployment	Result
1	District of Columbia	1,414.30	÷	10.70	132.18
2	Louisiana	729.50	÷	6.60	110.53
3	New Mexico	664.20	÷	6.50	102.18
4	Maryland	641.90	÷	7.20	89.15
5	Delaware	689.20	÷	8.10	85.09
6	Oklahoma	499.60	÷	6.30	79.30
7	Alaska	661.20	÷	8.40	78.71
8	Arkansas	529.40	÷	7.00	75.63
9	Texas	510.60	÷	7.10	71.92
10	Florida	722.60	÷	10.20	70.84
11	Tennessee	753.30	÷	10.70	70.40
12	Nebraska	302.40	÷	4.40	68.73
13	Nevada	750.60	÷	11.30	66.42
14	South Carolina	788.30	÷	12.10	65.15
15	Kansas	452.70	÷	7.00	64.67
16	Arizona	482.70	÷	8.20	58.87
17	Missouri	504.90	÷	9.00	56.10
18	Illinois	533.20	÷	10.10	52.79
19	Massachusetts	431.50	÷	8.20	52.62
20	Georgia	493.20	÷	9.70	50.85
21	Iowa	294.70	÷	5.80	50.81
22	Pennsylvania	416.50	÷	8.20	50.79
23	New York	414.10	÷	8.20	50.50
24	Wyoming	239.30	÷	5.00	47.86
25	Colorado	347.80	÷	7.60	45.76
26	Alabama	448.00	÷	9.80	45.71
27	Montana	287.50	÷	6.30	45.63
28	California	522.60	÷	11.50	45.44
29	Utah	234.80	÷	5.40	43.48
30	North Carolina	466.40	÷	11.10	42.02
31	Michigan	536.00	÷	14.10	38.01
32	Virginia	269.70	÷	7.10	37.99
33	New Jersey	329.30	÷	8.80	37.42
34	Hawaii	272.80	÷	7.40	36.86
35	Washington	333.10	÷	9.40	35.44
36	Minnesota	288.70	÷	8.20	35.21
37	South Dakota	169.20	÷	5.00	33.84
38	Wisconsin	290.90	÷	8.90	32.69
39	North Dakota	142.40	÷	4.40	32.36
40	Connecticut	256.00	÷	8.00	32.00
41	West Virginia	275.20	÷	8.60	32.00
42	Ohio	343.20	÷	10.80	31.78
43	Indiana	333.60	÷	10.60	31.47
44	Idaho	239.40	÷	7.80	30.69
45	Mississippi	291.30	÷	9.60	30.34
46	Kentucky	295.00	÷	10.60	27.83
47	Oregon	287.60	÷	12.40	23.19
48	New Hampshire	137.30	÷	6.50	21.12
49	Rhode Island	227.30	÷	12.10	18.79
50	Vermont	124.30	÷	7.30	17.03
51	Maine	118.00	÷	8.30	14.22