WalletHub has released its report on 2025’s Safest Cities in America, highlighting where people are at the lowest risk of physical and financial harm.
To determine its rankings, WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state — across three key dimensions: home and community safety, natural-disaster risk, and financial safety. The data analysis weighed 41 relevant metrics to calculate overall scores and used the resulting scores for rank order. Only the city itself was analyzed and not cities in a surrounding metro area.
For this year’s list, the safest city was Warwick, Rhode Island. This suburb of the state capital of Providence was cited for having the third-lowest number of aggravated assaults per capita, the seventh-lowest number of thefts per capita, and the 32nd-lowest number of murders among the cities in the WalletHub study.
Rounding out the top five were Overland Park, Kansas; Burlington, Vermont; Juneau, Alaska; and Yonkers, New York. At the bottom of the list was New Orleans as the least safest city in the nation.
“When people think about safety in a city, their minds probably immediately go to things like the crime rate, auto fatality rate or risk of natural disasters,” said WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo. “The safest cities in America protect residents from these threats of bodily harm and property damage, but on top of that, they also help secure people’s financial safety. Financial safety includes things like minimizing the risk of fraud and identity theft, keeping the population employed and insured, and combating homelessness.”
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