Safety is one of the main reasons that people move in and out of certain cities.
After determining where Americans can feel the most secure, Wallethub added a couple of Utah cities to the list of "2020's Safest Cities in America."
Salt Lake City was the 76th safest city in the nation, according to the list. The city ranked 9th overall for financial safety.
Salt Lake wasn't the only Utah city that made the list, however. West Valley City came in at number 158 and was 20th overall for financial safety.
Sale Lake City and West Valley City were both tied for first overall for the highest percentage of households with emergency funds.
According to the list, the safest city in America is Columbia, Maryland. South Burlington, Vermont came in second and Plano, Texas came in third.
Nashua, New Hampshire and Lewiston, Maine rounded out the top five.
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.
To see the full list of cities, click here.
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