In any given place across the country, residents are faced with threats to their safety, from weather and crime to hazardous workplaces or road conditions.
WalletHub recently released a 2023 report listing the safest states in the US. In the study, released on October 23, the 50 states were compared across 52 safety factors in five different categories: personal and residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety, and emergency preparedness.
Among the factors evaluated were fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles of travel, law-enforcement employees per capita, assaults per capita, the bullying incidence rate, the unemployment rate, and the percentage of adults with rainy-day funds, to name a few.
These 20 states are the safest in the US, according to the personal-finance website.