Safest Suburbs In The US: Only 1 Illinois City Makes The List

Everyone, regardless of economic circumstances, want to be safe wherever they choose to live, and cities and towns that can promise a high level of safety are naturally going to have a lot of people interested in potentially relocating there.

A new list of rankings of the safest suburbs in the United States was recently released by financial planning company SmartAsset.com, and in reading through it I quickly noticed there was only one Illinois suburb that made the list of the top 20 safest suburbs.

Here's what SmartAsset.com looked at to determine their rankings:

SmartAsset ranked 360 U.S. towns within 45 minutes driving distance of a major city based on the rates of violent crime, property crime, drug overdoses, traffic deaths and excessive drinking to determine America’s safest suburbs.

If You're Looking To Move To The Safest Suburb In America, You're Going To Have To Leave The State Of Illinois

And point your moving truck toward Lehi, Utah. SmartAsset.com chose Lehi as the safest suburb in the nation for the second straight year. Here's what they had to say about Lehi, Utah:

Only 9.4% of adults report excessive drinking in Lehi, the only suburb where this figure is less than 10%. Lehi also has the 22nd lowest rate of drug overdose deaths, and ranks relatively well across other safety metrics. The median monthly housing payment in Lehi is $1,881, compared to $125,860 in household income.

The rest of the top five safest suburbs includes:

• Bethesda, Maryland (#2)
• Great Falls, Virginia (#3)
• Rockville, Maryland (#4)
• Dacula, Georgia (#5)

As For The Illinois City Named To The Safest Suburbs List...

You might be familiar with a famous person who once called this city his home before finally selling the property last year. This is what his driveway looked like:

It's Highland Park, Illinois which comes in at number-fourteen overall.

Here's what the SmartAsset.com study had to say about Highland Park:

• Population: 30,229
• Violent crime per capita: 0.0007
• Property crime per capita: 0.0116
• Number of traffic deaths per 100,000 people: 7.5845
• Number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people: 18.3540
• Percentage of adults reporting excessive drinking: 19.51%
• Median monthly housing costs: $2,700
• Median household income: $161,875

Our neighboring state of Indiana has four suburbs among the top twenty:

• Noblesville (#12)
• Fishers (#13)
• Carmel (#15)
• Brownsburg (#17)

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