Is your city safe? SafeWise recently rated the country’s top 50 Safest Cities to Raise a Child in 2019 and we’ve got the deets on this must-see list.
So what city tops the list of safest places to live with kids? According to SafeWise’s stats, Carmel, Indiana is number one. This suburb of Indianapolis has a low violent crime rate of 0.18 per 1,000, a sex offender rate of 1.3 per 1,0000 and a graduation rate of over 97 percent.
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The second spot in SafeWise’s list goes to the Boston ‘burb of Newton, Massachusetts, with Johns Creek, Georgia, Fishers, Indiana and Flower Mound, Texas rounding out the top five.
Here are the top 25:
- Carmel, Indiana
- Newton, Massachusetts
- Johns Creek, Georgia
- Fishers, Indiana
- Flower Mound, Texas
- Plymouth, Minnesota
- San Ramon, California
- Hoover, Alabama
- Naperville, Illinois
- Irvine, California
- Mission Viejo, California
- Gilbert, Arizona
- Lake Forest, California
- Frisco, Texas
- Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Allen, Texas
- Thousand Oaks, California
- League City, Texas
- Troy, Michigan
- Murrieta, California
- Sugar Land, Texas
- Farmington Hills, Michigan
- Woodbridge, New Jersey
- Folsom, California
- Santa Clarita, California
When it comes to safe states, California boasts 14 of the safest cities, Texas has seven and Georgia, New Jersey and Arizona all have three! To see if your city made the list, visit SafeWise’s site here to see the complete list of 50.
—Erica Loop
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