Safest Cities Finder
Filter cities by state and population, then see them ranked by safety score, built from FBI violent and property crime data normalized per 100,000 residents.
Choose a state and a population floor to surface the safest qualifying cities. Scores combine violent and property crime against the national average; read the full formula on our methodology page.
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Frequently asked questions
How does the safest cities finder rank places?
Pick a state and a minimum population, and the finder ranks the matching cities by safety score, a 0-to-100 measure that weights the violent crime rate at 70 percent and the property crime rate at 30 percent against the national average. The highest scores appear first.
Why set a minimum population?
Very small jurisdictions can post extreme rates from only a handful of incidents, which makes raw rankings noisy. A population floor keeps the comparison among places of similar scale so the results stay meaningful. Set it to "Any size" to include everything reported.
Is a high score a guarantee of safety?
No. The score summarizes reported FBI crime counts for one year; it cannot capture unreported offenses, neighborhood-level variation, or recent changes. Treat it as one well-sourced input alongside local knowledge, not a verdict.
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.