Ranking property crime rates
Safeco ranked mid-size cities by their property crime rate using FBI data. Cities with the highest crime rate are listed first. 1. Orlando, Florida 2. Chattanooga, Tennessee 3. Knoxville, Tennessee 4. Birmingham, Alabama 5. St. Petersburg, Florida 6. Atlanta, Georgia 7. Columbus, Georgia 8. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 9. Lafayette, Louisiana 10. Shreveport, Louisiana
An insurance company says that Chattanooga ranks No. 2 among midsize southern cities for property crime rates, just behind Orlando, Florida.
Chattanooga, with a population of about 175,000, has a burglary rate of 513 per 100,000 people, a larceny rate of 2,197 per 100,000 people and a motor vehicle theft rate of 248 per 100,000 people, according to the report.
Safeco Insurance used data from the FBI to rank the top 10 cities with the highest and lowest property crime rates. They included categories like burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft.
The report included cities with populations between 100,000 and 500,000, according to a news release.
Knoxville was rated No. 3 on the list, with lower burglary and motor vehicle theft rates, but more larceny, according to the report.
Chattanooga also ranked higher in property crime than Birmingham, Alabama; St. Petersburg, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia.