The District of Columbia’s Ward 8 is on track to have a homicide rate this year of roughly 71.9 per 100,000, slightly higher than the murder rate recorded in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, a city that frequently appears on lists of the most dangerous places in the world, during 2024, a Washington Examiner review of public data has found.

Ward 8 includes Anacostia, widely regarded by locals as the most dangerous part of the district, as well as a section of Navy Yard, an adjacent neighborhood popular with young professionals that frequently appears in local news stories on crime, such as when armed suspects barricaded themselves inside a luxury apartment building or when a sitting congressman was carjacked at gunpoint last year. Many have claimed that crime is spilling over from Anacostia into Navy Yard, which are connected via train.