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(NEXSTAR) — The prime of the schools, the commute, the nearest brunch spot — these are each factors you whitethorn see earlier moving to a suburb. Another main facet you'll apt see is safety.
The perceived information of an country — which tin beryllium influenced by things similar spot transgression and centrifugal conveyance deaths — tin besides person an interaction connected a home's value.
SmartAsset, a idiosyncratic concern website, reviewed 360 suburbs crossed large metro areas successful the U.S. and analyzed them based connected aggregate safety-related metrics: convulsive transgression rates and spot transgression rates based connected FBI information arsenic good arsenic rates of adults engaging successful excessive drinking and deaths related to postulation accidents and cause poisonings from County Health Rankings.
To beryllium considered a "suburb" for this report, a spot needed to beryllium wrong a 15- to 45-minute thrust of 1 of the nation's 100 largest cities, and person a colonisation of astatine slightest 5,000.
The safest suburbs, according to SmartAsset's analysis, were chiefly successful the Mountain West, Midwest, and East Coast, portion galore of the lower-ranking suburbs were successful the South.
Ranking highest overall, though, was Lehi, Utah. Located astir 30 miles southbound of Salt Lake City, Lehi had the lowest complaint of excessive drinking (Utah arsenic a full has the lowest excessive drinking rate successful the nation), arsenic good arsenic debased rates of convulsive and spot crimes. Nearby Layton, a 25-minute thrust northbound of Salt Lake City, ranked 3rd overall.
Below are the 10 safest suburbs of 2024, according to SmartAsset's rankings:
- Lehi, Utah
- Bethesda, Maryland
- Layton, Utah
- Rockville, Maryland
- Great Falls, Virginia
- Dacula, Georgia
- Buford, Georgia
- Elmhurst, Illinois
- Oak Brook, Illinois
- Edgewater, New Jersey
Last year, Lehi came successful sixth overall, pursuing suburbs similar Great Falls, Virginia; Carmel, Indiana; and Bethesda, Maryland, which landed successful the apical 3 spots, respectively. While Great Falls and Bethesda maintained their apical 10 status, Carmel dropped to No. 18 this year.
Johnstown, Ohio, conscionable extracurricular of Columbus, had the lowest convulsive transgression complaint successful the survey portion the Houston, Texas, suburb of Spring had the lowest spot transgression rate. Having the worst complaint successful some categories was Bernalillo, New Mexico, which is astir 18 miles northbound of Albuquerque.
Bernalillo was the lowest-ranked suburb wide this year. Coming successful astatine the bottommost of SmartAsset's study were:
- Bernalillo, New Mexico
- Lumberton, North Carolina
- Scottsburg, Indiana
- Petersburg, Virginia
- Asheboro, North Carolina
- Senatobia, Mississippi
- DeLand, Florida
- Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Largo, Florida
- Capitola, California
Of the 27 Florida suburbs that made the list, lone 7 ranked among the apical fractional of SmartAsset's list.
SmartAsset’s afloat database and methodology tin beryllium found here.
Another caller analysis recovered Roswell, Georgia, which was No. 134 connected SmartAsset's report, is the champion tiny metropolis for information and affordability, followed by Johns Creek, Georgia; Edmond, Oklahoma; and Mansfield, Texas. Johns Creek and Mansfield did not marque SmartAsset's database portion Edmond ranked No. 51.
