{"id":310054,"date":"2026-10-19T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310054\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:52:12","slug":"philadelphia-ranks-near-bottom-in-2026-safest-cities-in-america-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310054\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia ranks near bottom in 2026 &#8216;Safest Cities in America&#8217; study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vlcsnap-2023-04-25-18h01m35s806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Despite recent reports showing a 24% year-to-date drop in homicides across Philadelphia, a new national study suggests the city still has a long way to go when it comes to overall safety.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Philadelphia landed near the very bottom of <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/safest-cities-in-america\/41926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WalletHub&#8217;s &#8220;Safest Cities in America&#8221; <\/a>list, ranking 178th overall.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The study compared over 180 U.S. cities across 41 key metrics with three main dimensions: Home &amp; Community Safety, Natural Disaster Risk, and Financial Safety.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Here is how Philadelphia scored in the rankings:<\/p>\n<p> Overall safety: 178th placeHome &amp; Community Safety: 176th placeNatural Disaster Risk: 159th placeFinancial Safety: 137th place <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Safest vs. least safe cities<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Philadelphia isn&#8217;t the only major city struggling in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p> Top 5 safest cities <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">These cities scored the highest for community security, financial stability, and disaster protection:<\/p>\n<p> Juneau, Alaska\u00a0Warwick, Rhode IslandOverland Park, Kansas\u00a0Burlington, Vermont\u00a0South Burlington, Vermont\u00a0 5 least safe cities <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">At the opposite end of the spectrum, Philadelphia finds itself grouped with several other major cities facing public safety and economic challenges:<\/p>\n<p> New Orleans, LouisianaBaton Rouge, LouisianaBaltimore, MarylandMemphis, TennesseePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was sourced from WalletHub&#8217;s &#8220;Safest Cities in America&#8221; list and the the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Despite recent reports showing a 24% year-to-date drop in homicides across Philadelphia, a new national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-310054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}