10 safest, most dangerous states in America

The safest states in America are largely concentrated in the northeast, according to an Oct. 23 analysis from WalletHub. 

The personal finance website analyzed the 50 states across five dimensions: personal and residential safety (including murders per capita and law enforcement employees per capita), financial safety (including poverty and foreclosure rates), road safety (including DUIs per capita and pedestrian fatality rate), workplace safety (including presence of occupational safety and health plan acts), and emergency preparedness (including the number of climate disasters causing more than $1 billion in damages in past decades). Each state was assigned a safety score based on their metrics in each of these areas. 

These states were deemed the safest, according to WalletHub: 

1. Vermont

2. Maine

3. New Hampshire

4. Utah

5. Massachusetts

6. Connecticut

7. Hawaii

8. Minnesota

9. Rhode Island

10. Wyoming

And these states were named the most dangerous

1. Louisiana

2. Mississippi

3. Arkansas

4. Texas

5. Florida

6. Alabama

7. Oklahoma

8. Colorado

9. Montana

10. Missouri


View the full ranking here.

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