Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 12
Vermont looks like what you find on a Christmas card, so it makes perfect sense that it would have the lowest crime
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 13
Maine is only a grisly murder scene in the books that Stephen King sets there.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 20
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 20
The old-fashioned manor houses are legit quaint—not filled with old-timey serial-murderers.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 22
This place is absolutely not part of that deadly portion of the wild, wild west.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 22
7+ seasons of 'Gilmore Girls' has more than prepared me to say that this state is safe.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 22
You get good bourbon, but apparently the residents don't drink enough of it to go on a violent murder spree. Win!
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 22
The wide open spaces definitely don't play host to deranged killers.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 24
The rocky vistas of Utah are 100% safe to visit. Well, like 88% safe—but you get the idea.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 24
Nothing ever happens in North Dakota, including any sort of violence. I GUESS that's a good thing.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 24
This tiny state has few people, and even fewer crimes. It’s got a beach too. Score!
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 24
You can rest easy visiting the Great Lakes knowing that not that many people get killed there.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 26
Despite it’s proximity to crime juggernaut NYC, Jersey isn’t so deadly.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 26
The relatively low amount of crime occurring in Oregon has to be due to the fact that you don’t pump your own
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 27
The Great Plains are a real treat to take in. Plus—you can rest easy knowing you probably won’t be killed when visiting.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 28
It may have the picturesque Mississippi River to take a peek at, but it also has some crime.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 28
Lots and lots of hiking trails and lush undergrowth to hide things. Just sayin’.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 29
They say bad things just don’t happen in the Midwest and they’re only kinda-sorta right.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 30
It’s one of the most popular tourist destinations for a reason. Look, you gotta weigh the pros and cons: sandy beaches
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 30
They say nothing ever happens in Ohio. They’re kind-sorta-but-not-really right. Because sometimes there's violent crime.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 31
Wisconsin cheese. It’s THE cheese. Wisconsin murder. It’s THE murder.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 32
Hershey Park (sweet, sweet chocolate) vs. possible death. Your call. I’d personally go for the chocolate.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 32
In the old days, people were killed in order to steal gold. Modern residents kept up the killing part of the tradition.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 34
I guess there's that old adage that the farther west you go, the more wild things get. Virginia has got nothing on its
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 35
If you have to choose a Carolina to live in, then this is the one you should choose.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 35
The rate isn’t quite high enough to start a ‘CSI: Ranch Murder’ spin-off. Yet.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 38
It gets super humid here in the summer, so people might just go heat-crazy.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 38
Shockingly, New York isn’t at the top of this list. I guess NYC is safer than literally any travel blog makes it seem.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 38
South Dakota is way more dangerous than North Dakota. What do they put in the drinking water there?
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 38
It gets so cold here, people have to let off steam somehow. Okay, crime seems like a stretch.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 39
Indiana seems like a nice, quiet state. Well, this fact proves that notion 100% wrong.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 39
There’s a lot more going down in Kansas than farming, apparently. Lots and lots of murder.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 39
US history is pitted against a high crime rate. Who will win? Only you can decide.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 41
People go here to unwind in Sedona. Maybe get a hot rock massage. Well, it’s apparently a great place to get murder, too, so
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 41
This state has a whole lot of land mass, so it’s place on this list isn’t super surprising.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 42
The state reaching into the Great Lakes has a shockingly high rate of crime.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 42
It’s not just the name of a famous musical, it’s a semi-crime-ridden state, too.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 43
From SF to LA, there’s a lot of ground to cover and a whole lot of people to boot. It makes sense there’d be
a lot of crime to go with it.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 46
Baltimore is known for it’s high crime rates. It’s incredibly historical too. Fair trade?
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 46
One has to assume these crimes are mostly happening in Northern Florida. That place is…interesting…
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 47
This state has some seriously creepy caves where all sorts of horrible things can and probably have happened.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 50
This is the state with St Louis in it, so, it honestly is a little surprising it’s not higher on the list?
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 50
Maybe people are going Shining-crazy due to all of the snowstorms that hit the East Coast?
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 51
It’s gotta be the humidity—and maybe the jealousy at the fact that they’re not living in Florida.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 52
At home on the range…obviously people in this state are feeling too at home if they’re up and killing other people left and right.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 54
Home to The Big Easy, this state doesn’t take it so easy on the crime. With all of the drink people running around, well,
it kind of makes perfect sense, actually.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 61
The only 10 I see is the tens of thousands of violent crimes that go down in this state. Apparently, it has rejected southern
hospitality wholeheartedly. Ouch.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 66
‘Breaking Bad’ main character Walter White called this state home, so it’s completely perfect that it would end up so far up on the
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 70
Any place that has a motto like “Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is obviously going to be kind of high on this
list—Nevada does not disappoint. Or it really disappoints, depending on how you look at it.
Number of violent crimes per 10,000 residents: 73
This…this is kind of shocking. WHAT IS GOING ON UP NORTH? Seriously, is it drugs? Did Jesse Pinkman move there?
Some cities are a utopia and others are a straight-up, Joker-ridden Gotham City. Which version do you reside in? Chances are, you already know how likely you are to find find a baby wielding a shotgun in its stroller.
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