June is National Safety Month, so personal finance website WalletHub recently released its report on 2018's Safest States in America.
In order to help families find the most secure places to settle down, WalletHub 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
- Vermont
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Utah
- New Hampshire
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Hawaii
- Massachusetts
- Washington
Least Safe States in America
- South Carolina
- Alaska
- Missouri
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
Read more here.
Source: WalletHub; photo: Getty Images