Madison Ranks Among the Top 10 Safest Cities in CT

Madison is the seventh safest city in the state.

A study conducted by Value Penguin, ranked the city at number seven out of the 90 cities included in the study. Madison also ranked fifth as the safest small city with a population under 20,000.

The city received an overall crime score of 74, which is 86 percent better than the average crime score.

The methodology of the study included data from the 2012 FBI Crime in the U.S. Report(although the FBI recently released 2013 statistics). The raw data included violent crimes and property crimes from all law enforcement agencies that participate in the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program. To calculate the crime score, violent crime was weighted at 90 percent and property crime was weighted at 10 percent.

ValuePenguin describes itself as a website that conducts research, largely on consumer topics, to help people make decisions about automobile insurance, health insurance, credit cards and similar products and services.

Only communities that participate in the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program were included in the study.

View the full report here to see how other municipalities ranked.

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