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the safest City In America with one suburb of New York City ranking high on the list.
New ranking, Issued by finance website WalletHub, Over 180 US cities, including the 150 most populous cities, were compared and ranked on several key metrics including community and home SecurityNatural Disaster Risk and financial security.
Cities were compared using 41 key indicators of safety, ranging from traffic fatality rates per capita and assaults per capita. unemployment rate and percentage of population He is not insured.
In first place was Warwick, Rhode Island. The Ocean State’s third-largest city received high marks for having the third-lowest rate of serious assaults and the 32nd-lowest number of murders among all cities included in the study. This has the seventh lowest number of thefts per capita and provides good conditions for financial security.
Meanwhile, Yonkers, the third most populous city in the entire New York state, ranks fifth on the list.
The city of about 211,000 is located about 15 miles north of Manhattan and is ranked third in WalletHub’s home and community safety category. According to the study, Yonkers ranked 29th in natural disaster risks and 118th in financial security.
Its neighbor, New York City, scored much lower overall and ranked only 117th on the list.
Other safest cities include Overland Park, Kansas, which ranked second on the list, Burlington, Vermont, ranked third, and Juneau, Alaska, ranked fourth.
Overland Park did well partly because of having safe roads. The city has the fifth-lowest pedestrian fatality rate and the 21st-lowest percentage of uninsured drivers. With the 14th lowest unemployment rate in the country, it also has good conditions for financial security.
Burlington, meanwhile, scored well, having the 26th lowest murder rate and having an overall low risk for many types of natural disasters and severe weather.
When conducting the study, WalletHub looked at 182 cities, including the 150 most populous US cities and at least the two most populous cities in each state.
The financial website compared three metrics: home and community safety, natural disaster risk and financial security. Each city can get a maximum of 60 points for the first category and a maximum of 20 points for the second and third categories.
Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale and weighted accordingly. Cities were then ranked based on their overall safety score.
WalletHub releases a new list of “America’s Safest Cities” every year.