{"id":9879,"date":"2025-10-21T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9879\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:30:06","slug":"this-pa-city-is-one-of-the-least-safe-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9879\/","title":{"rendered":"This Pa. city is one of the least safe in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

A new report has come out about which United States <\/a>cities are the safest and, by consequence, the unsafest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And one in Pennsylvania<\/a> has fallen into the latter category.<\/p>\n

Conducted and published by WalletHub<\/a>, the report listed Philadelphia in 174th on a list of 182 cities total, making it the ninth unsafest city in America. Pittsburgh \u2014 the only other Keystone State city included in the study \u2014 also didn\u2019t do so hot in the 138th overall spot. <\/p>\n

WalletHub researchers created this study after assessing each city across three main categories: \u201cHome & Community Safety;\u201d \u201cNatural-Disaster Risk;\u201d and \u201cFinancial Safety.\u201d Relevant sub-metrics bucketed under these categories \u2014 \u201cAssaults per Capita\u201d and \u201cShare of Uninsured Drivers\u201d among them \u2014 were also factored in.<\/p>\n

New Orleans, Louisiana, was thus found to be overall least safe city in the U.S. On the slip side, Warwick, Rhode Island, was found to be the absolute safest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarwick, [Rhode Island], is the safest city, with the third-lowest number of aggravated assaults per capita and the 32nd-lowest number of murders out of the 182 cities in our study,\u201d the report reads. \u201cIt also has the seventh-lowest number of thefts per capita, so residents can worry less about both violent and non-violent crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to natural disasters, Warwick ranks as the city with the seventh-lonqest risk of hail, 10th-lowest risk of wildfires, 23rd-lowest ricks of tornadoes and 29th-lowest risk of earthquakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people think about safety in a city, their minds probably immediately go to things like the crime rate, auto fatality rate or risk of natural disasters,\u201d said WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo. \u201cThe safest cities in America protect residents from these threats of bodily harm and property damage, but on top of that, they also secure people\u2019s financial safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinancial safety includes things like minimizing the risk of fraud and identity theft, keeping the population employed and insured, and combatting homelessness.\u201d <\/p>\n

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