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Which U.S. state is the safest to call home? According to a new ranking from personal finance site WalletHub, many are in the Northeast.To determine the safest states, WalletHub used five key safety metrics, including personal and residential, financial, road, workplace and emergency preparedness.Vermont was ranked No. 1, and particularly for its neighborhood safety.
Which U.S. state is the safest to call home? While no place is immune to all danger, some areas of the country are better in this category than others – and many are in the Northeast, according to a new report.
The personal finance site WalletHub ranked the “safest states” in 2024, using a range of metrics – from assaults per capita to the total loss from climate disasters per capita to the unemployment rate.
Vermont was ranked No. 1, and particularly for its neighborhood safety. Nearly 77% of parents in Vermont believe they live in safe neighborhoods, according to WalletHub – which is the second-highest percentage in the country.
Additionally, Vermont has the seventh-most neighborhood watch groups per capita, which can help alert law enforcement of crimes or suspicious activity, the report said. It added that the state has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country and safe roads, comparatively.
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“The safest states in America protect their residents from harm in a multitude of different ways, from keeping crime rates low and maintaining safe roadways to having strong economies and job markets that prevent people from falling into dangerous financial situations,” Chip Lupo, a WalletHub analyst, said in a statement. “They have high levels of occupational safety and disaster preparedness, too.”
Lupo added that states are made safer “by efforts that individual residents take, such as forming a neighborhood watch or working in firefighting and EMT jobs at high rates.”
To determine the safest places to live in 2024, WalletHub said it compared the 50 states across five key metrics: 1) Personal & Residential Safety, 2) Financial Safety, 3) Road Safety, 4) Workplace Safety, and 5) Emergency Preparedness.
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Safest U.S. states, ranked
The top five “safest” states in WalletHub’s ranking were Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Utah.
The bottom five states were Florida, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and
Louisiana at No. 50.
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This article was written based on a report published by WalletHub on Oct. 21, 2024. WalletHub said it evaluated the five key categories using 52 relevant metrics, and each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the highest level of safety. The site then determined each state’s weighted average across all metrics to calculate its overall score and used the resulting scores to rank-order its sample. This story was reported from Cincinnati.
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