{"id":14315,"date":"2025-10-21T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14315\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:27:06","slug":"cape-coral-ranked-2nd-safest-city-in-florida-according-to-report-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14315\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral ranked 2nd safest city in Florida according to report | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Cape Coral residents are reportedly in the second-safest city in Florida, according to a report conducted by WalletHub.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The survey, published on Monday, gathered data from every city in the country and compiled a list based on three different guidelines: Home and Community Safety, Natural Disaster Risk, and Financial Safety.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The cities were then graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the highest level of safety.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Florida, Cape Coral was ranked the second safest, with Port St. Lucie ranking first.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to WalletHub\u2019s grading, Cape Coral\u2019s Home and Community Safety rating was 14, Natural Disaster Risk was 132, and Financial Safety was 168, averaging out to 61.52 out of 100.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Overall, Cape Coral ranked 55th in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The top five \u201csafest\u201d cities in the United States were: Warwick, Rhode Island; Overland Park, Kansas; Burlington, Vermont; Juneau, Alaska; and Yonkers, New York.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To view WalletHub\u2019s methodology and report results, <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/safest-cities-in-america\/41926\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral residents are reportedly in the second-safest city in Florida, according to a report conducted by WalletHub.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,914],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}