What is going on everyone? It is time to update the worst cities in America for
2019 list last year we brought you some pretty scary cities some were so bad you
think they were in a country that had been embroiled in a bloody civil war for
like 20 years or it was just a city my cousin's ex-wife lived in either one
actually both of those are really valid reasons not to move someplace most
people think that crime is the only metric that gets a city on a worst of
type list it's actually seven or eight metrics depending on which study you're
looking at crime poverty schools traffic amenities population density and
pollution those are usually the standard ones for this list will only be taking
into consideration stats they're most often associated with living in a really
bad place like crime poverty schools and pollution because when you live in a
city where people are getting shot on dirty streets then robbed on their way
to scrappy schools you really don't care how bad the traffic is or if they have a
good Applebee's nearby and for those of you thinking about it don't worry
there's probably a please really close to you right now so stop looking at the
Applebee's online menu and watch my top 10 worst cities in America for 2019
number 10 Albuquerque New Mexico to me Albuquerque's always look like the
primary filming location for the next Quentin Tarantino movie if you google
Albuquerque then select the news tab it paints a picture of the city nobody
wants to see they have a strange amount of bodies being found around this city
it's really weird it is half a million residents and if you look at all the
crime reports you'd think someone is in fact playing out a real-life Tarantino
movie with that many people living a city that has a laundry list of other
issues it's no wonder there's so much crime
there's nearly 9,000 crimes reported for every hundred thousand residents
that's 218 percent higher than the national average while in the city you
have about a 1 in 12 chance of being involved in a crime Albuquerque was
incorporated in 1891 and is the most populous city in New Mexico on the plus
side it has the Rio Grande River running right through the middle of town and
it's also home to my favorite news reporter Alison Martinez
number nine Shreveport Louisiana Shreveport is like the Forgotten kid
nobody ever talks about when it comes to Louisiana
everybody always hears about New Orleans and mates a bat root well mostly New
Orleans but if you're not from the area you really don't ever think or hear
about Shreveport you only go to Freeport if you have a court date or you want to
go someplace that's hot and humid like a tropical island but you don't want to be
near the ocean you know or the ocean breeze or anything like that it's
normally in the 90s from May to September it really doesn't get below
the 70s until maybe December January in February the poverty level of Shreveport
is 69 percent higher than the national average good goin Shreveport Shreveport
has just under two hundred thousand residents in all of these residents but
I got a one in fourteen chance being involved in a crime every year city's
only safer than two percent of the cities in this country the overall crime
rate is one hundred and forty eight percent higher than the national average
and on top of all that city sweetness you have a pollution index that makes
most environmentalists cry at night Shreveport was incorporated in 1839
number eight Albany Georgia about two hours away from where I did basic
training and Fort Benning Georgia you balboni Georgia or Albany Georgia
whichever you want to call it this little slice of depression could be a
great place to learn how to live in poverty they have about 30,000 residents
that I'm sure would be more than willing to teach you how to do it because
they're experts this town has been poor for a very long time of course it's
probably gonna cost you a couple bucks and they only take cash they're having
some problems with their bank Albany has a population of 75,000 people and I
would guess sixty five thousand of them would probably love to move at any time
housing prices here are extremely low and there's a reason for that
Albany sucks and nobody wants to live here this place has vacant homes with
boarded up windows on most blocks and I'm not even joking about that homes
here go for about eighty nine thousand dollars that's dirt cheap and that's
forty nine percent lower than the national average the poverty level here
is 120 percent higher than the national average and the crime rate is a hundred
and forty six percent higher than the national average Albany was incorporated
in 1838 and most people feel this was a really bad move
number seven homestead florida homestead is another one of those smaller cities
with a bad reputation they only have about 65,000 residents this one could
almost make the list on pollution alone but not wanting to be a second-rate
horrible town they turn in a not so good crime rate that's seventy percent higher
than the national average and only about sixty nine percent of their residents
actually graduated high school the low population comes in at no surprise
unemployment here is pretty horrible the income per capita is about seventeen
thousand a year the unemployment rate is about six percent right now as well as
thirty percent of the residents living in poverty that's ninety percent higher
than the national average now this is weird the seal or the and the flag for
the city if they're a little weird they have a jet fighter and a farmer on a
tractor with some palm trees got a weird looking now I get whites there they have
a lot of farming outside of Homestead and there's an Air Force Base there too
so stop typing I get it but it's just a weird combination homestead was
incorporated in 1913 and is known as the Gateway to the Everglades and if you've
been there kind of wish the Everglades would swallow it up at some point number
six Little Rock Arkansas Little Rock is in Arkansas so that should be your first
indicator that there's a lot wrong here the one thing most people know about
Arkansas is there's a bunch of jokes told about this state that always end
with some reference to Marion a close relative Little Rock is the capital and
most populous city of this less than normal US state the schools of the city
aren't setting in these scholastic records the average school test score in
Little Rock is forty six percent lower than the national average Little Rock
has just under two hundred thousand residents and the worst crime rate in
Arkansas the city has about 10,000 crimes per V 100,000 residents yeah you
heard me right that's two hundred and twelve percent higher than the national
average Little Rock is safer than only one percent of the other cities in this
country yeah not really good Little Rock was incorporated into a town in 1831 and
four years later incorporated into a city
number five Baltimore Maryland unless you've been living in a bunker with zero
outside contact for like 50 years or so you know Baltimore isn't the great city
it once was when Edgar Allan Poe walked the streets of Baltimore and wrote The
Raven actually it might not have been that good back then either he either
drank himself to death or he was poisoned all the records have since been
lost but who knows he did yell out the name Reynolds all night the night he
died so they're not sure Reynolds actually poised em or whatever
anyway they say Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston but since he married his 13
year old cousin I'm thinking it was a little rock I could be wrong modern-day
Baltimore is home to about six hundred and twenty thousand residents every day
these residents have a 1 in 15 chance of being involved in a crime the overall
crime rate is a hundred and fifty three percent higher than the national average
with about 45,000 crimes being reported annually and considering forty percent
of crimes go unreported that's the estimate this place is a frickin
nightmare the average school test score is fifty nine percent lower than the
national average and only about 75 percent of the residents have graduated
high school Nevermore number four Memphis Tennessee Memphis
Tennessee is the worst city in the entire state when it comes to crime and
pollution and their unemployment and education numbers kind of blow too it's
like they're trying to come in last place at everything like they're putting
a serious effort into sucking this city has about 650,000 residents and the
crime rate is about 202 percent higher than the national average there's about
34 violent crimes reported in this city every single day Memphis is safer than
only one percent of the cities in this country the poverty level of Memphis is
83 percent higher than the national average here's a piece of advice about
Memphis don't go here number three st. Louis Missouri and Illinois okay so one
is st. Louis and the other one is East st. Louis they're just across the river
from each other and they both suck st. Louis Missouri is located right on the
Illinois Missouri border and is the second largest city in the state with
just three hundred and ten thousand residents and it's one of the most moved
out of cities in the country both residents businesses and football teams
and they're not moving to East st. Louis trust me on that one these two cities
could make it on the list with crime and poverty alone the income per capita is
twenty four thousand dollars a year that's in a sit
that's one thing to be living out in rural areas with that kind of money but
this isn't a city you can't make it on that that's 15 percent lower than the
national average their unemployment isn't good but it's not terrible to 5%
so while it's not impossible to find a job here it is hard finding a decent job
since the poverty level is 27% I did a video a while back and I mentioned how
the city lost two football teams the Cardinals and the Rams and the village
idiots came out to play in the comments section I guess none of them knew
anything happened before they were born they just they just we still have the
Cardinals they play baseball you don't even know in sport the Cardinals played
out of that and it went on and on and on no we just lost the Rams what do you
talk about it was weird anyway in case any of you left those comments and you
still haven't gathered the knowledge yet I will explain st. Louis has a baseball
team called the Cardinals their football team was also called the Cardinals but
they moved to Arizona in 1987 Arizona Cardinals are what they are now and just
recently the Rams skipped town on you and that's it in a nutshell
number two Detroit Michigan congratulations Detroit you're not
number one anymore and considering how far ahead of the pack you were sucking
you've done great Detroit has been on a downward slide for decades but it seems
to be turning the corner okay maybe they aren't turning the corner yet but put it
this way if they had a land navigation system on Detroit like we have on our
cars it would be saying prepare to turn the corner in three to seven years the
loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector killed this once great city and stop
typing I'm sure you can rattle off 50 other minor stats and reasons that
contributed to the downfall but manufacturing more specifically the auto
industries manufacturing sort of left this town high and dry
now there are some jobs left but it's nothing close to what it once was
Detroit has sort of been doing this revitalization thing downtown in recent
years it's starting to catch on and sort of spread throughout the city but they
got a very long way to go that's why they're number two when no longer number
one Detroit had just under two million residents in 1950 and now they sit at
about six hundred and seventy five thousand residents that's kind of a drop
shows you how damaged this city was the income per capita is only fifteen
thousand dollars making the median household income the worst in the
country at just over 26,000 53% lower than the national average but
two years ago the median household income was only 23,000 so they're making
some progress crime is down a little bit two schools are getting better things
are looking up but like I said they're number two because they're still in bad
shape there is progress there is hope and number one Wilmington Delaware
congratulations Wilmington you made it to number one Wilmington Delaware has
the worst crime rate in the whole state and one of the highest in the country
for every 100,000 residents there's about 5,000 crimes reported that's a
hundred and forty nine percent higher than the national average this equals
out to be in roughly 20 violent crimes reported per day
in the city now their crime rate isn't as bad as some of the other cities on
this list but their violent crime rate is outrageous this place is like the
Wild West on steroids I went to a Catholic school until high school I
learned about this place called purgatory purgatory is where you go to
pay for your sins before they let you into heaven Wilmington reminds me of
what purgatory is or should be it's weird this place is not a place you want
to move to it's like a place you're going to to pay a debt to society or
something it's kind of like a prison it's bad Wilmington has bad schools
extreme poverty and houses that if they haven't been boarded up for a decade or
so they haven't seen repairs or coat of paint in just as long Wilmington
Delaware was incorporated in 1731 it is the worst city in the United States for
2019 all right so that's your top 10 worst cities in America for 2019 I hope
you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it you know a lot of
these places are getting better in the last couple of years they're just
they're still suck pretty bad so that's why they make lists like this everyone
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