{"id":897807,"date":"2026-10-28T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897807\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:16:14","slug":"philadelphia-ranked-as-5th-least-safe-city-in-the-united-states-wallethub-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897807\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia ranked as 5th least safe city in the United States, WalletHub study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A new study ranks Philadelphia near the bottom of safest cities in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The new <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/safest-cities-in-america\/41926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report from personal finance company WalletHub <\/a>lists Philadelphia at 178 out of 182 cities, only ahead of Memphis, Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland and Baton Rouge and New Orleans in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Topping the list of safest cities in America is Juneau, Alaska, followed by Warwick, Rhode Island, Overland Park, Kansas, and Burlington, Vermont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/philadelphia-ranked-worst-city-traffic-trouble-according-wallethub\/17963850\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia ranked worst city for traffic troubles, according to new study<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">To determine where Americans feel the most safe, WalletHub compared more than 180 cities in the U.S. across 41 key metrics, including data from traffic deaths and assaults per capita, as well as  unemployment rates and the percentage of residents without health care insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For the full list of WalletHub&#8217;s 2026 Safest Cities in America, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/safest-cities-in-america\/41926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study ranks Philadelphia near the bottom of safest cities in the United States. The new report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[376408,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-897807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-376408","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}