A recent study sought to determine which American cities are the safest and which one are the least safe, and when the numbers were analyzed, four cities in the deep south were given the dubious prize of being considered America’s most dangerous.
The study, compiled by MoneyGeek, utilized crime stats gathered by the FBI for 2021, the most recent year with numbers available.
America’s least safe city? Pine Bluff, Arkansas, with a crime cost of over $9,000 per capita, according to the FBI tallies.
The next three spots on the list are all cities in Louisiana: Monroe, Houma and Alexandria. Wilmington, Delaware, rounds out the top five.
“A small city or town can bear the same costs of crime as a large city. Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has a higher crime cost per capita than St.
Louis, the large city with the highest cost of crime. Similarly, New York City has a cost of crime comparable to Cedar City, Utah,” the study said.
As far as which cities are considered the safest according to the study, Yorktown, New York, leads the list, followed by Mason, Ohio.
Two Massachusetts towns made the top five with Andover at #3 and Arlington at #5. Southlake, Texas, sits at #4 to complete the top five.
“To determine crime rates per 100,000 people, population data accessed from the FBI was added to the analysis. For purposes of this analysis, MoneyGeek focused on cities with a population between 30,000 and 100,000 residents and included 660 cities in the ranking,” the study said.
Three states – Alaska, Hawaii and Nevada – were left out because data was not available for those states.
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