crime rate

1. 1.

   the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

   Broaderrate

Questions about crime rate

What does crime rate mean?

crime rate means "the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year".

Is crime rate a common word?

crime rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.