UNDERNEWS: Most and least safe states in America

June 13, 2018

Most and least safe states in America

With the U.S. recently hit hard by tragedies from hurricanes to mass shootings, the personal-finance website Wallet Hub released its report on 2018's Safest States in America.

Wallet Hub compared the 50 states across 48 key metrics. The data set ranges from assaults per capita to unemployment rate to total loss amounts from climate disasters per capita.

Safest States in America		Least Safe States in America
1	Vermont	41	South Carolina
2	Maine	42	Alaska
3	Minnesota	43	Missouri
4	Utah	44	Alabama
5	New Hampshire	45	Arkansas
6	Connecticut	46	Florida
7	Rhode Island	47	Texas
8	Hawaii	48	Oklahoma
9	Massachusetts	49	Louisiana
10	Washington	50	Mississippi

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: It's interesting that Vermont, NH, and Maine are all among the "Constitutional Carry" states, in which no licence but the Constitution is needed to buy a weapon and, if it's small enough, carry it concealed.; June 13, 2018 at 1:08 PM

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