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Fear Not! You Just Might be Living in one of Wisconsin's 100 Safest Cities of 2016

Shake those winter doldrums and election-year blues by reading about Wisconsin's 100 safest cities - including your own!

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WISCONSIN -- Everybody wants to live in a place where they are safe.

The Niche.com 2016 Safest Places to Live ranking provides a comprehensive assessment of the overall safety at the municipal level.

The village of North Prairie in Waukesha County was rated as the safest community in Wisconsin in 2015.

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Niche.com rankings take into account key indicators of a location’s safety, including violent and property crime rates, in an attempt to measure an area’s safety and security.

Niche.com also weighed several factors, including the numbers of assaults, robberies, murders, burglaries, vehicle thefts and property thefts per 100,000 residents from data obtained through the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.

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Take a look at the FBI's report yourself, if you'd like. In the report, you can view data on each Wisconsin city regarding violent crimes, murder cases, robberies, assaults, property crimes, and more.

Here is how Wisconsin's safest cities ranked nationally:

Here is a list of the 100 safest places in Wisconsin:

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