It may seem like there are a lot of big crimes coming from Florida, but that doesn’t make it the most dangerous state.
24/7 Wall St. compiled a list of the safest and most dangerous states in the United States with Florida being listed as the fifth-most dangerous. Alaska, Nevada, Tennessee and New Mexico were the other four in the top five. Vermont, Maine, Wyoming, New Hampshire and Virginia were listed as the top five safest states.
According to the site, Florida has the fifth-highest violent crime rate in the country with seven of the 21 cities in the state with populations of at least 100,000 having violent crime rates at double the U.S. rate. Homestead, Daytona Beach and Fort Myers were listed as the most dangerous cities with each having 1,100 incidents per 100,000 people.
Vermont was listed as the safest state because it has fewer than 100 violent crimes for every 100,000 people each year, the lowest in the nation. 24/7 Wall St. reports “jobless or poor men with time on their hands are among the most likely perpetrators of crimes in the United States,” but Vermont has been near the bottom of unemployment for the past few years.
Read more at 24/7 Wall St.
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