Here’s The Safest City In North Carolina For 2018: WalletHub

NORTH CAROLINA — Winston-Salem is the safest city in North Carolina. That is according to WalletHub, a personal finance site that just released its "2018 Safest Cities in America" survey.

WalletHub studied 182 cities, including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, across 39 key indicators of safety. Analysts examined home and community safety, natural disaster risk and financial safety.

Winston-Salem was ranked No. 27 on the list overall, but came in No. 38 when it came to "home and community safety," a category that weighted murder and terrorist attacks heavily, while also considering the number of mass shootings, rapes, thefts, traffic fatalities and other factors. It had a "natural disaster risk" rank of No. 40, which took into account floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires and other risks. As for "financial safety," Winston-Salem ranked 117th, after an evaluation that looked at the unemployment rate, poverty rate and other factors.

How did Winston-Salem stack up against other North Carolina cities on the list of 182 urban areas throughout the U.S.? Here’s a rundown:

• Winston-Salem — No. 27
• Raleigh — No. 28
• Durham — No. 32
• Charlotte — No. 54
• Greensboro — No. 73
• Fayetteville — No. 94

Safest cities in the U.S., according to WalletHub:

1. Columbia, Maryland
2. South Burlington, Vermont
3. Plano, Texas
4. Virginia Beach, Virginia
5. Warwick, Rhode Island
6. Gilbert, Arizona
7. Yonkers, New York
8. Bismarck, North Dakota
9. Nashua, New Hampshire
10. Boise, Idaho

The survey was based on crime, road quality and unemployment, among other factors.

The least safe cities in the U.S., according to WalletHub:

1. St. Louis, Missouri
2. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
3. San Bernardino, California
4. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
5. Little Rock, Arkansas
6. Detroit, Michigan
7. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
8. Wichita, Kansas
9. Los Angeles, California
10. Jackson, Mississippi

See the full rankings from WalletHub.

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