I drove through the worst parts of Charlotte, North Carolina. This is what I saw.

Dang Charlotte has some bad areas, but they are way better than they used to be.

For this drive, I took highway 321 from the mountains of North Carolina into Charlotte. My goal was to visit the worst neighborhoods in Charlotte. As we’d see, these worst areas weren’t actually as bad as they used to be, nor are they that bad, compared to most of America’s largest cities. The day was Friday, October 16, 2020 and it was high noon.

After extensive research, it was determined that there are two different bad areas in the Charlotte metro area, and both are on the city’s northwest side. The first area I would visit is a neighborhood that ranks as the poorest and with the most rundown homes. This area is called the Thomasboro-Hoskins neighborhood. Most of the buildings are industrial type places and much of the retail is discount outlets like Boost Mobiles, Dollar Stores and liquor stores.

This part of town is about four miles outside of downtown proper, and a 10 minute drive from Charlotte’s main city center, filled with banking and tech and healthcare companies.

Now, Charlotte has been undergoing a lot of gentrification, and many of the worst parts of town have been cleaned up or torn down completely, to make room for newer model homes, condos and retail. In addition, Charlotte never really had any really TRUE ghetto hoods - outside of some housing projects, and certain pockets on the north end, it’s not THAT bad. Sure, Charlotte has issues with gangs and shootings, but there aren’t any really large terrible areas here, considering that this is the 15th largest city in the country. Charlotte doesn’t even rank in the top 100 in terms of dangerous US cities. That’s quite impressive.

Homes in this neighborhood average about $100k.

The second neighborhood we’ll visit is the most dangerous section of Charlotte, an area called Tryon Hills. This is the undisputed most dangerous part of Charlotte, and actually ranks as the 11th most dangerous neighborhood in the US. The area is only a mile north of downtown, and is between the streets of Tryon, Graham, Atando and Dalton. Again, like the other neighborhood we visited, this is tame compared to the massive ghetto areas I’ve seen in the past.

And we head into downtown from the worst neighborhood in this city. And it wasn’t even that bad, was it?

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