2 Nebraska Cities Made This 2020 Safest Cities List. Here's How They Rank:

Safety is a huge draw when planting roots in a city.

Two Nebraska cities — Lincoln and Omaha — made the 2020 Safest Cities in America list.

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.

Lincoln rang in at No. 36. Omaha made the list at No. 72.

Lincoln also tied with Bismarck, North Dakota, for the city with the lowest unemployment rate, according to WalletHub. Other cities on that list include Boise, Idaho; Fargo, North Dakota; and South Burlington, Vermont. All three tied.

Here are the top 5 safest cities in the U.S.:

1. Columbia, MD
2. South Burlington, VT
3. Plano, TX
4. Nashua, NH
5. 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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