Durham, North Carolina

Durham with a 2010 population of 233,790 witnessed robbery crime rates in 2009 of 710 fall to 659 in 2010, about a 7% decrease. Durham also saw a spike in these years compared with aggravated assault in 2009 at 797 incidents and increased to 872 in 2010 the crime rate inflation averaged to be near 9.5%.  Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports