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Royal Oak Listed Among 100 Safest Cities in America
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ROYAL OAK, MI – Royal Oak is one of the 100 safest cities in America, according to a new analysis from NeighborhoodScout.com.
Royal Oak, the only Michigan community to make the Top 100 list, ranked 89th on the list of U.S. cities with populations of 25,000 or more.
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NeighborhoodScout looked at FBI crime data on the number of burglaries, larceny-thefts, motor vehicle thefts, murders, rapes, armed robberies and aggravated assaults per 1,000 residents.
The city had a crime index of 66 (100 is safest). A snapshot of the findings is available here.
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- See 2015’s top 100 Safest Cities
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Seven Michigan cities made the “100 Most Dangerous” list:
- Battle Creek, 84th most dangerous
- Jackson, 79th most dangerous
- Lansing, 50th most dangerous
- Kalamazoo, 39th most dangerous
- Saginaw, eighth most dangerous
- Flint, seventh most dangerous
- Detroit, third most dangerous
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