If safety is your primary concern, you're going to want to check out WalletHub's new ranking of the safest states in the U.S. for 2018. Looking at factors that contribute to all kinds of security issues--including unemployment rate, assaults per capita and total loss amounts from climate disasters per capita--the site determined that these are the 10 safest states in the U.S.:
- Vermont
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Utah
- New Hampshire
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Hawaii
- Massachusetts
- Washington
- Delaware #15
- Maryland #16
- New Jersey #18
- PA #28
And these are the 10 most unsafe states:
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Florida
- Arkansas
- Alabama
- Missouri
- Alaska
- South Carolina
Source: WalletHub