Top 10 WORST Cities in America for 2019.

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 don't forget all the links below subscribe if you haven't already subscribed everybody have a great day be nice to each other

Channel: World According To Briggs

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Length: 12min 20sec (740 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 25 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/kegauger]

This video is trash

[u/[deleted]]

I mean it’s bad, but the worst seems like kind of a stretch.

[u/YOUREABOT]

No Anchorage? Really?

[u/droford]

so Wilmington is Rat Orgy from snl?

[u/3decadesin]

Without even watching I’d assume it was Wilmington, Delaware. Only saying that on my own experiences. Moved from NYC and went to Wilmington via public transit for a job interview. It was snowing, I didn’t know my way around and my phone was dying. I actually made it to the interview rather late due to the weather (travelled from Dover). After the interview was said and done I found the bus stop and waited patiently for it to arrive. Phone completely died now and I stood away from the crowd of people, and waited. Some random guy comes and stands next to me shoulder to shoulder and tells me he’s a mad scientist with a knife in his pocket. I was horrified. I assumed he was mentally ill or under the influence, maybe both. So I walked closer to the crowd hoping to deter him away from me. He follows me and repeats the exact same thing while reaching for his pocket. The bus was no where in sight and I was scared to death by now because he targeted me, specifically, of all people who stood out there. I began to back away and he followed, repeating the same thing. I ran full speed into some store and very quickly explained what was happening I was hysterical by then. I can’t remember the specifics of what happened afterword, but it took me several hours to get home. I missed a few buses and eventually walked to a bus stop many blocks away. The area I was in seem to be riddled with like characters as the man I encountered, and it gave me overall bad vibes. I didn’t both showing up to the second interview.