"If you're looking for a place to live where you can sleep soundly at night without worrying too much about crime, natural disasters, or financial ruin, these are the top 10 contenders, according to a new WalletHub analysis. WalletHub examined a total of 182 US cities - the 150 most populated cities in the country, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state - to determine the safest cities in the US."
"The cities were evaluated based on 41 metrics in three main categories: home and community safety, natural-disaster risk, and financial safety. To determine home and community safety rankings, WalletHub examined factors in each city including murders, thefts, and assaults per capita, traffic and pedestrian fatalities per capita, and the number of mass shootings. Natural-disaster risk factors measured the risk indexes of earthquakes, hail, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires."
WalletHub evaluated 182 U.S. cities using 41 metrics across three categories: home and community safety, natural-disaster risk, and financial safety. Home and community metrics included murders, thefts, assaults, traffic and pedestrian fatalities, and mass shootings per capita. Natural-disaster risk used indexes for earthquakes, hail, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires. Financial safety measured unemployment, poverty, foreclosures, and fraud and identity-theft complaints per capita. Data sources included the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, FBI, FEMA, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and HUD. Warwick, Rhode Island; Overland Park, Kansas; and Burlington, Vermont ranked as the safest cities.
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