WordNet
n. the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Usage examples of "crime rate".
The highest murder rate in America, and the second highest violent crime rate.
Dade has the worst crime rate in the country, and does the laziest job of putting bad criminals behind bars.
The instant I crossed that border in the grasslands of the Dzungarian Gap, the crime rate had sharply dropped, and I had to adjust the hour hand of my watch by several revolutions.
It had been rising relentlessly--a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile--and it seemed now to herald the end of the world as we knew it.
If some superhero starts dropping out of the sky on local criminals and the crime rate falls to zero, what do you think happens to their budget?
There was a high crime rate, and a lot of the buildings were run-down, abandoned, or only infrequently used.
El Monte was running at 10% of its current population and 1/30th of its current crime rate.
The crime rate is the lowest of any human society on Earth or out here.