Daily Real Estate News | October 27, 2009
10 Safest Places to Live in the U.S.
A sense of security is one of the big reasons why people choose a home. Forbes magazine has created a list of the nation’s safest places to live by examining four factors: workplace accidents, weather catastrophes, crime rates, and traffic accidents.
The result is this list of top 10 safest metropolitan areas:
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.-Wisc.
- Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisc.
- Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash.
- Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.
- Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, R.I.
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.
- Cincinnati-Middletown, Ohio (tie)
- Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio/Denver-Aurora, Colo. (tie)
Source: Forbes.com, Zack O'Malley Greenburg (10/26/2009)
