Connecticut Ranks 6th In WalletHub's Safest States For 2025

A new study has just come out that has ranked the safest states in America for 2025, and Connecticut has just missed the Top 5.

There are six states that make up New England, and every one of them have ranked in the Top 10 of WalletHub.com's new study Safest States in America 2025(2025). New England has experienced just about every type of natural disaster, we are home to one of the largest cities in the US with Boston, and there are plenty of wealthy families living in our part of the world. Do we have a safer environment than the rest of the country? According to the study, yes.

In order to determine which US states are the safest, WalletHub compared each using five key dimensions: Personal & Residential Safety, Financial Safety, Road Safety, Workplace Safety, and Emergency Preparedness. Those dimensions were further evaluated using 52 key metrics: Assaults per capita, sex offenders per capita, drug abusers per capita, Law Enforcement Employees, EMT, Firefighters per capita, Bullying incidence rate, share of uninsured population, identity theft complaints, and quality of roads were factored in.

Connecticut Ranks as the #6 Safest State in US for 2025

Connecticut was ranked at #6 overall, and ranked #1 in the Personal & Residential Safety metric. We also had the third fewest assaults per capita and fatal occupational injuries for 2025. The Top 4 safest states overall are Northern New England: Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine were #1-4, Utah at #5, CT at #6, and Rhode Island at #9. The most dangerous states for 2025? The bottom 3 are Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

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