The 10 safest states in the US — and the 10 least safe

A report released by the personal finance website WalletHub on Monday evaluated all 50 US states, ranking them from the most to least safe.

For each state, WalletHub examined 52 indicators across five categories: personal and residential safety, financial safety, road safety, workplace safety, and emergency preparedness.

To evaluate financial safety, WalletHub looked at factors such as unemployment rates, median credit scores, identity-theft complaints per capita, and poverty rates.

WalletHub's workplace safety ranking included examining the number of fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 full-time workers and the presence of Occupational Safety and Health Act plans.

Finally, the emergency preparedness ranking looked at states' histories of climate disasters.

Here are the 10 safest states in the US, and the 10 least safe states.

The state's road safety ranking was the third-highest in the US, with the second-best road quality and the fifth-fewest traffic fatalities of any state.

Vermont placed 16th in the personal and residential safety ranking and 11th in emergency preparedness.

As the second-safest state in the US, Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 of nearly every category of WalletHub's analysis.

Its workplace safety ranking was the lowest, coming in at 23rd overall.

Maine's low crime rate propelled it into the top three safest states in the US. With the fewest mass shootings between 2024 and September 2026, the third-fewest murders per capita, and the fewest aggravated assaults per capita, it ranked fourth in personal and residential safety.

It ranked 8th in road safety, 21st in workplace safety, and second in emergency preparedness.