Safest Cities by State (FBI Data)

A ranking of the cities with the lowest violent crime rates reported to the FBI, for every state where the data supports one. Each state page ranks municipalities of 10,000+ residents on 2024 FBI data, with the grade, violent and property rates behind every position.

44 states. Each ranking covers municipalities of 10,000+ residents with their own police department, on 2024 FBI data.
State	Cities ranked	Lowest reported violent rate	Per 100k	Grade
Alabama	60	Daphne	57.6	A
Arizona	42	Oro Valley	51.4	A
Arkansas	38	Bryant	175.2	B
California	358	Palos Verdes Estates	24.1	A
Colorado	46	Fruita	14.3	A
Connecticut	79	Westport	3.6	A
Florida	81	Satellite Beach	43.9	A
Georgia	71	Auburn	0.0	A
Idaho	20	Moscow	18.7	A
Illinois	190	Troy	8.9	A
Indiana	69	Auburn	7.1	A
Iowa	37	Carroll	39.5	A
Kansas	35	Leawood	58.8	A
Kentucky	41	Mount Washington	31.9	A
Louisiana	26	Mandeville	130.2	A
Maine	20	Gorham	21.8	A
Maryland	22	Havre De Grace	139.1	A
Massachusetts	152	Bedford	13.6	A
Michigan	115	Grosse Pointe Park	18.2	A
Minnesota	91	Dayton	17.7	A
Mississippi	23	Madison	57.0	A
Missouri	72	Town And Country	26.0	A
Nebraska	16	Papillion	33.9	A
New Hampshire	26	Merrimack	0.0	A
New Jersey	225	Woolwich Township	0.0	A
New Mexico	17	Los Alamos	61.2	A
New York	130	Scarsdale Village	5.7	A
North Carolina	74	Rolesville	33.7	A
Ohio	175	Bainbridge Township	0.0	A
Oklahoma	45	Weatherford	41.6	A
Oregon	50	Baker City	29.3	A
Pennsylvania	223	West Manheim Township	0.0	A
Rhode Island	25	Portsmouth	11.4	A
South Carolina	39	North Augusta	34.1	A
South Dakota	13	Brandon	73.2	A
Tennessee	60	Collegedale	25.9	A
Texas	245	Fair Oaks Ranch	0.0	A
Utah	47	North Salt Lake	37.9	A
Vermont	10	Williston	109.2	C
Virginia	39	Salem	38.7	A
Washington	90	Sedro Woolley	15.3	A
West Virginia	11	Vienna	153.9	B
Wisconsin	81	Muskego	11.8	A
Wyoming	11	Rock Springs	127.3	A

Why 7 states are missing. Alaska, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota have fewer than 10 cities that qualify — most of their territory is policed by county or state agencies rather than by municipal departments, and what remains is too small a set to rank. A ranking built on a handful of cities is not a ranking, so we do not publish one.

How to read these rankings

A ranking is a sort, not a verdict. Three things are worth knowing before you use one:

The grade is national-relative, not a curve within the state. A city at exactly the US average violent and property crime rate scores 50 out of 100 and receives a C, wherever it sits. A state's list can therefore be topped by a C, and that is information, not a glitch.
Adjacent positions are not meaningfully different. A single reported incident can move a city several places. Read the top of a list as a group, not as a photo finish.
A city grade is a city-wide average of reported crime. It does not describe a street, a block or an address, and crime is concentrated unevenly inside every city — including the ones at the top of these lists.

Counties, sheriff's agencies, towns under 10,000 people, and agencies that filed a year while reporting almost no crime in it are all excluded, because each of them would otherwise take first place without being a safe city. Every state page shows exactly how many it excluded and why. The full method is on the methodology page.

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