Patrick Clarke, TravelPulse (TNS)
Travelers on the lookout for the safest cities in America should want to head to New England this holiday season.
WalletHub experts recently compared greater than 180 U.S. cities and analyzed greater than 40 key safety indicators, comparable to: B. Traffic fatalities and robberies per capita, unemployment rate, natural disaster risk level, and percentage of the population uninsured to find out which places are safest to go to in 2024.
Vermont was the large winner, with South Burlington and Burlington ending first and fourth, respectively. Meanwhile, Warwick, Rhode Island is in third place, while Portland, Maine can be in the highest 10 at number nine.
South Burlington ranks first in Financial Security, a category that scores 20 out of 100 and takes into consideration quite a lot of aspects comparable to poverty rates, unemployment, job security and access to retirement plans.
According to WalletHub, Warwick — a city south of Providence — has the fewest thefts per 1,000 residents and the second fewest assaults per capita.
Casper, Wyoming, and Boise, Idaho rank second and fifth, respectively, while the opposite top 10 safest cities include Yonkers, New York (sixth); Cedar Rapids, Iowa (seventh place); Columbia, Maryland (eighth) and Virginia Beach, Virginia (tenth).
Columbia – a suburban destination just outside of Baltimore – ranks first in home and community safety, a category that accounts for 60 out of 100 points.
Factors examined on this area include the presence of terrorist attacks; the variety of mass shootings; Murders and non-negligent homicides per capita; violent rape and hate crimes per capita, amongst other security indicators.
The 10 Safest US Cities
1. South Burlington, Vermont
2. Casper, Wyo
3. Warwick, Rhode Island
4. Burlington, Vermont
5. Boise, Idaho
6. Yonkers, New York
7. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
8. Columbia, Maryland
9. Portland, Maine
10. Virginia Beach, Virginia
Memphis, Tennessee, has the unlucky fame of being the least protected city within the country, based on WalletHub's research. It ranks a hundred and eightieth for home and community security and 181st for financial security.
Memphis has the very best variety of traffic fatalities and assaults per capita within the country and has the bottom percentage of households with emergency savings.
Other underperforming places include Detroit; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana; Baltimore; Cleveland; Oakland, California; Philadelphia and San Bernardino, California.
Detroit has the very best unemployment rate of any city studied by WalletHub and has essentially the most assaults per capita.
Houston, ranked 171st out of 182 cities, has the very best risk of natural disasters, while Washington, DC ranks in the highest five for hate crimes per capita.
The 10 Least Safe US Cities
1. Memphis, Tennessee
2.Detroit, MI
3. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
4. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
5. New Orleans, Louisiana
6. Baltimore, Maryland
7. Cleveland, Ohio
8. Oakland, California
9. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10. San Bernardino, California
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