Using data from City-Data,2 this article looks at the United States cities with the highest frequencies of sex offenders per 10,000 residents. Out of all the states, Oregon has the largest percentage of sex offenders with 688 for every 100,000 people. Maryland, on the other hand, has the lowest percentage, with only 125 for every 100,000 people. But before we get into the numbers, we want to tell you a little bit more about registered sex offenders and their surrounding laws.

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  1. Who would have thought that almost 1% of residents in Wilmington, Delaware, of all places, is a registered sex offender

  2. Wait…Oregon has the **largest** percentage of sex offenders, but its biggest city (with almost 15% of the state population) has the 7th **smallest**?

  3. follows:

    Wilmington, Delaware — One sex offender for every 107 residents
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    Orlando, Florida — One sex offender for every 143 residents
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    Sioux Falls, South Dakota — One sex offender for every 153 residents
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    Helena, Montana — One sex offender for every 160 residents
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    Las Vegas, Nevada — One sex offender for every 163 residents
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    Richmond, Virginia — One sex offender for every 163 residents
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    Bismarck, North Dakota — One sex offender for every 168 residents
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    Louisville, Kentucky — One sex offender for every 173 residents
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    Hartford, Connecticut — One sex offender for every 182 residents
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    Cheyenne, Wyoming — One sex offender for every 186 residents
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    Those are the top ten, but if you want to see how your city ranks, click on the link…

  4. Crime data can be misleading. Questions come up are more sex offenders prosecuted in certain cities?Are all sex offender crimes defined the same way? What crime resources available in different locations? For instance small towns do not have same technologies as bigger cities. Are there places that do not allow sex offenders to live there? Just a few off the top of my head. Data needs context.

  5. While I find the the data itself to be intetesting, coming from a security company this has *really* iffy implications. A higher number of sex offender is just as, if not more, likely to be a result of a wider array of crimes requiring registration as a sex offender, a longer length of people are required to stay on the sex offender registry, and prosecution rate for sex crimes as it is to be the result of more sex crimes being committed.

    The article seems to be implying that you should be more concerned for your safety in places where there are more registered sex offenders, but considering the very low prosecution rate for sex crimes, that’s not an inherently reasonable conclusion. A city that prosecutes 10% of rapes instead of 3% would have more sex offenders despite being slightly less dangerous than the city with a lower prosecution rate.

    It would be genuinely interesting to see if there are specific laws, prosecution rates of crimes, socioeconomic factors, etc that are associated with higher rates of sex offenders. But, my guess is that those three options are ordered on more to least correlated.

  6. When I lived in vegas (technically henderson) a LONG TIME AGO google api tools were taking off and someone made a sex offender google map integration. One of the closest to me was Mike Tyson !

  7. The state of Florida has asked us to disclose our sexual crimes to you

  8. My first question is about how aggressively local law enforcement are about forcing people to go on the sex offender registry as part of plea deals and the like. There are some absolutely absurd stories out there about people who had no reasonable necessity to go on a sex offender registry, who are on there nonetheless. This is one of those issues where a lot of people are afraid to ever defend that side of it, so there’s rarely pressure for reform in that direction.

  9. This is dependent on enforcement of these policies by each state. Sexual Assault Kit testing is famously unorganized

  11. Californian here: Sacramento, Stockton, Bakersfield, and Fresno.

    You give any Californian 4 guesses on the 4 cities in California with the highest number of sex offenders, they are guessing these 4 cities.

  12. Interesting data! It would be great to see a visual representation of this information, like a heatmap or bar chart, to better understand the distribution across different states.

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