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A couple of weeks ago, I posted the blog entry "100 Most Dangerous Cities in Amercia".
In this post, I thought I would give you the flip side of the coin...or the Top 100 Safest Cities in America.
In this post, I thought I would give you the flip side of the coin...or the Top 100 Safest Cities in America.
NeighborhoodScout.com has compiled exclusive crime data for individual neighborhoods with a population of 25,000 residents or more resulting in a list of the Top 100 Safest Cities in America.
About the Compilation
As with the 100 Most Dangerous Cities in America post, the list is derived from municipal crime statistics from the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department. According to NeighborhoodScout, data was gathered from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies in the United States.
A relational database from the data was used to associate crime incidences from all of these law enforcement agencies to the specific local communities the agency covers, and hence in which community the crimes have occurred.
The data was then researched and a mathematical algorithm was developed to statistically estimate the incidences of both violent and property crimes for each neighborhood in America.
The project took nearly 6-months to complete and the resultant formulae produced numbers of crimes and crime rates for neighborhoods with upwards of 87% accuracy in most cases.
Types of Crimes Included in Data
Offenses included in the data:
- Willful Homicide
- Forcible Rape
- Robbery
- Burglary
- Aggravated Assault
- Larceny (over $50)
- Motor Vehicle Theft
- Arson
Below is a list of the Top 10 Safest Cities in America in order according to NeighborhoodScout’s Top 100.
If you live in one of the cities below and are reading this then you most likely have a police scanner and are already well aware of the low crime in your city because you hardly ever hear anything going on in your city.
I know, I live in Canyon Lake, one, if not, the safest city in Riverside County, CA. (it does help that were are a guard-gated community with just under 11,000 residents).
Point being, monitoring just my city is pretty boring. This is where monitoring the surrounding area comes in handy, a topic for an upcomming post.
Anyway, on with the top 10 Safest Cities (w/pop. of 25,000 or more):
10. Long Beach, NY
9. Plum, PA
8. Santa Cruz, CA
7. Franklin, MA
6. Manhattan, KS
5. Shaker Heights, OH
4. Parma, OH
3. Bowie, MD
2. Edina, MN
1. Pikesville, MD
A link to the complete list of 100 safest cities with detailed information on crimes for all 100 cities is included in the “Related Links of Interest” section below.
Related Links of Interest
- NeighborhoodScout: 100 Safest Cities in America
- FBI Uniform Crime Report
- FBI Website
- U.S. Dept. of Justice Website
That's it for now, till next time, stay safe and happy scanning!
-RF
