Safest and Most Dangerous States in the U.S. 2018: Annual Ranking Updated

WalletHub has released its 2018 report comparing the 50 states across 48 key safety indicators to determine which are the safest.
Published: June 6, 2018

Editor’s note: Click here for the 2019 safest and most dangerous states.

Personal-finance website WalletHub has released the results of its annual “Safest States in America” report.

To rank each state, WalletHub looked at 48 key safety indicators grouped into five different categories: personal & residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety and emergency preparedness.

Data sets ranged from assaults per capita to unemployment rate to total loss amounts from climate disasters per capita.

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You can view the full details of the report and its methodology here.

The Safest States in America

Just like last year, data shows that the safest area of the U.S is New England, with every state making the top 10. Overall the same states as last year remained in the top 10.

  1. Vermont
  2. Maine
  3. Minnesota
  4. Utah
  5. New Hampshire
  6. Connecticut
  7. Rhode Island
  8. Hawaii
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Washington

The Most Dangerous States in America

If you want to avoid the least safe states in the country, you will want to stear clear of the south. And Alaska, which made the top 10 least safe states replacing Arkansas from last year. The rest of the states remained the same, albeit in a different order.

  1. Mississippi
  2. Louisiana
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Texas
  5. Florida
  6. Arkansas
  7. Alabama
  8. Missouri
  9. Alaska
  10. South Carolina

Click here for a slideshow comparing statistics such as assaults per capita and law enforcement numbers between the safest and most dangerous states.

Security integrators, does this data correlate with what your different branches see across your region?

Source: WalletHub

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