To determine the safest states in the U.S. in 2025, WalletHub analyzed 52 metrics across five categories: personal and residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety, and emergency preparedness. According to those metrics, the study found that Vermont is the safest state in the U.S., excelling in both neighborhood and financial safety, with safe roads and fewer traffic fatalities than most other states.
“Vermont has the 15th-fewest aggravated assaults, 17th-fewest murders and nonnegligent manslaughters, and 24th-fewest thefts per capita, too,” the study says.
Florida’s poor ranking in WalletHub’s study was primarily due to its vulnerability to hurricanes, ranking in the bottom five in two categories: loss amounts from climate disasters per capita and share of uninsured population. Florida also ranked in the bottom 15 in two categories: sex offenders per capita and fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles of travel.
With 23,000,000+ relatively happy residents, Florida is the third most populated State in the country. The hurricane threats skew the rating to the point where their not really talking about street crime or other shit. It's safe as fuckall here crime-wise. Juss' sayin'...
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What demographic is poorly-represented in Vermont?
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'...
As a former resident of Vermont, I call MALE BOVINE EXCREMENT on the whole thing. The crime rate in Vermont has soared since the 1990s, and the cost of living has skyrocketed. Parts of Burlington have become no-go zones due to homelessness, drugs, crime, and the castration of Law Enforcement. I saw this becoming a major concern back in 2012 when I started finding used syringes on sidewalks and could not go to the once-beautiful Church Street Marketplace without getting hit up by panhandlers and girls with signs proclaiming them to be "pregnant, homeless, and broke". The authors also don't seem to realize that Vermont does get hit by the occasional hurricane, and we have this thing called WINTER that brings blizzards, killing below-zero temperatures, and major Spring floods caused by ice dams blocking rivers swollen by melting snow. Look up how many times Montpelier has been flooded, or even the Emergency Management Center in Waterbury.
ReplyDeleterickn8or hit the nail on the head. Do an online search for "Vermont demographics" and take a look at the result. That will give you the answer as to why Vermont is the safest state.
ReplyDeleteIf a stste is the safest of fifty states wouldn't it have some factors higher than 15th and 17th?
ReplyDeleteI make that an average of the 16th safest.....