Safety is a huge draw when planting roots in a city.
But a recent study shows that Detroit — and one other city in Michigan — has room for improvement.
WalletHub, a personal finance site, released a study Monday (November 30) ranking the safest cities in the U.S.
The study compared 182 cities, weighing 42 “key indicators for safety,” to determine where residents feel safest.
Detroit dwindled to No. 178.
It also had some of the most assaults per capita and had one of the highest unemployment rates, according to WalletHub.
The only other Michigan city to make the list was Grand Rapids, which earned a better ranking. Grand Rapids rang in at No. 59.
Here are the top 5 safest cities in the U.S.:
- Columbia, MD
- South Burlington, VT
- Plano, TX
- Nashua, NH
- Lewiston, ME
To determine the list, WalletHub compared 180 cities across three key dimensions: home and community safety, natural-disaster risk, and financial safety.
Those three dimensions were then evaluated using 42 relevant metrics, including average number of COVID-19 cases within the last seven days, number of mass shootings, share of sheltered homeless, earthquake risk level, tornado risk level, foreclosure rate, job security, and share of households with emergency savings.
See the full list here.
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