No matter where you live, it's important to consider how different factors in your location will impact your safety — whether at your workplace, through the weather in your region, or due to local crime rates.
Personal-finance website WalletHub released a report on October 23 that ranked the safest states in the US in 2023. In the categories of personal and residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety, and emergency preparedness, the 50 states were compared across 52 safety factors.
These included factors such as law-enforcement employees per capita, the bullying incidence rate, assaults per capita, the unemployment rate, and more.
While Vermont was ranked as the safest state, followed by Maine and New Hampshire, other states such as Louisiana and Mississippi fell to the bottom of the list.
These 20 states are the least-safe in the US, according to WalletHub.