The Top 250 Safest Small Towns in the United States

The Top 250 Safest Small Towns in the United States Rank State City Population Violent 1 New Jersey Waldwick 9,997 0.00 0 1 South Dakota Brandon 9,992 0.00 0 1 Connecticut Redding 9,344 0.00 0 1 Utah Mapleton 9,336 0.00 0 1 New York Whitestown Town 9,252 0.00 0 1 Maine Cape Elizabeth 9,230 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Chatham 9,039 0.00 0 1 New York Malverne Village 8,581 0.00 0 1 Tennessee Signal Mountain 8,579 0.00 0 1 New York Kirkland Town 8,351 0.00 0 1 Massachusetts Boxford 8,275 0.00 0 1 New York Briarcliff Manor Village 8,028 0.00 0 1 Nebraska York 8,008 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Chester Township 7,964 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania Camp Hill 7,892 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Bernardsville 7,763 0.00 0 1 Illinois Gilberts 7,727 0.00 0 1 Connecticut Easton 7,663 0.00 0 1 Maine Cumberland 7,641 0.00 0 1 Illinois Inverness 7,639 0.00 0 1 Michigan Kinross Township 7,571 0.00 0 1 Kentucky Villa Hills 7,455 0.00 0 1 New Stratham 7,400 0.00 0 1 Kentucky Flatwoods 7,380 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania Eastern Adams Regional 7,347 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania New Cumberland 7,268 0.00 0 1 Florida Longboat Key 7,206 0.00 0 1 New Jersey North Caldwell 6,938 0.00 0 1 Minnesota St. Joseph 6,883 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania East Earl Township 6,800 0.00 0 1 New York Horseheads Village 6,734 0.00 0 1 New York Stillwater Town 6,701 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Rockaway 6,494 0.00 0 1 Nebraska Plattsmouth 6,484 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Lebanon Township 6,421 0.00 0 1 Michigan Gaines Township 6,209 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Fair Haven 6,029 0.00 0 1 Massachusetts Dover 5,952 0.00 0 1 Missouri Glendale 5,926 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Tewksbury Township 5,908 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania Luzerne Township 5,900 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Norwood 5,843 0.00 0 1 New York Elmira Town 5,820 0.00 0

1 New Jersey Blairstown Township 5,802 0.00 0 1 Illinois Spring Grove 5,712 0.00 0 1 Michigan Cambridge Township 5,671 0.00 0 1 Minnesota Corcoran 5,562 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Greenwich Township, Warren 5,539 0.00 0 1 Ohio Waterville 5,515 0.00 0 1 Rhode Island Jamestown 5,494 0.00 0 1 New New Boston 5,484 0.00 0 1 Texas Terrell Hills 5,296 0.00 0 1 New Jersey Mount Arlington 5,252 0.00 0 1 Oregon Warrenton 5,218 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania Paint Township 5,156 0.00 0 1 Vermont Waterbury 5,105 0.00 0 1 Pennsylvania Granville Township 5,062 0.00 0 1 Michigan Lapeer Township 5,054 0.00 0 1 Minnesota Thomson Township 5,054 0.00 0 1 Wisconsin Richland Center 5,038 0.00 0 61 Minnesota Arden Hills 9,956 1.00 0.1004 62 South Carolina Tega Cay 9,501 1.00 0.1052 63 New Jersey Washington Township, Bergen 9,341 1.00 0.107 64 Illinois Glencoe 8,971 1.00 0.1114 65 New Jersey Park Ridge 8,872 1.00 0.1127 66 New Jersey Long Hill Township 8,812 1.00 0.1134 67 New Jersey Cresskill 8,796 1.00 0.1136 68 Illinois Clarendon Hills 8,714 1.00 0.1147 69 Wisconsin Oconomowoc Town 8,654 1.00 0.1155 70 Pennsylvania O'Hara Township 8,594 1.00 0.1163 71 California Los Altos Hills 8,485 1.00 0.1178 72 Ohio Wyoming 8,426 1.00 0.1186 73 Pennsylvania Pleasant Hills 8,287 1.00 0.1206 74 New Jersey Bedminster Township 8,222 1.00 0.1216 75 New Jersey Montvale 8,207 1.00 0.1218 76 New Jersey Lopatcong Township 8,091 1.00 0.1235 77 New Jersey Byram Township 8,035 1.00 0.1244 78 Ohio Bellevue 8,025 1.00 0.1246 79 Illinois Hawthorn Woods 7,905 1.00 0.1265 80 Ohio St. Clair Township 7,772 1.00 0.1286 81 New Jersey Fanwood 7,727 1.00 0.1294 82 New York Eden Town 7,707 1.00 0.1297 83 New York Baldwinsville Village 7,702 1.00 0.1298 84 New Jersey Emerson 7,656 1.00 0.1306 85 Pennsylvania Spring Township, Centre 7,612 1.00 0.1313 86 Michigan Raisin Township 7,574 1.00 0.132 87 Washington Selah 7,505 1.00 0.1332

88 Pennsylvania Hatboro 7,441 1.00 0.1343 89 Illinois West Dundee 7,405 1.00 0.135 90 Pennsylvania West Cocalico Township 7,395 1.00 0.1352 91 Pennsylvania East Marlborough Township 7,302 1.00 0.1369 92 Illinois Lincolnshire 7,295 1.00 0.137 93 New York Lakewood-Busti 7,218 1.00 0.1385 94 Maine Rockland 7,202 1.00 0.1388 95 New York Mount Hope Town 7,095 1.00 0.1409 96 Ohio Bellbrook 7,052 1.00 0.1418 97 New Jersey Linwood 7,042 1.00 0.142 98 New Jersey Mountainside 6,860 1.00 0.1457 99 New Jersey Allendale 6,845 1.00 0.146 100 New York Tuckahoe Village5 6,656 1.00 0.1502 101 New York Irvington Village 6,620 1.00 0.151 102 Michigan Adrian Township 6,352 1.00 0.1574 103 Iowa Orange City 6,173 1.00 0.1619 104 Wisconsin Freedom 6,062 1.00 0.1649 105 California Villa Park 6,002 1.00 0.1666 106 Illinois Lakemoor 6,002 1.00 0.1666 107 New Jersey Old Tappan 5,980 1.00 0.1672 108 New York Rosendale Town 5,957 1.00 0.1678 109 New Jersey Little Silver 5,910 1.00 0.1692 110 New Jersey Woodcliff Lake 5,895 1.00 0.1696 111 New Jersey Mendham Township 5,889 1.00 0.1698 112 Minnesota Medina 5,880 1.00 0.17 113 Ohio Indian Hill 5,814 1.00 0.1719 114 Illinois Lake Bluff 5,695 1.00 0.1755 115 Pennsylvania Wright Township 5,645 1.00 0.1771 116 Utah Nephi 5,537 1.00 0.1806 117 Pennsylvania Vernon Township 5,502 1.00 0.1817 118 Illinois Northfield 5,497 1.00 0.1819 119 Pennsylvania Redstone Township 5,445 1.00 0.1836 120 New Jersey Englewood Cliffs 5,400 1.00 0.1851 121 Arkansas Greenbrier 5,339 1.00 0.1873 122 Wyoming Worland 5,335 1.00 0.1874 123 California Kensington 5,329 1.00 0.1876 124 Idaho Weiser 5,321 1.00 0.1879 125 Ohio Russell Township 5,262 1.00 0.19 126 Oklahoma Lone Grove 5,248 1.00 0.1905 127 Wisconsin Slinger 5,193 1.00 0.1925 128 New Jersey Holland Township 5,183 1.00 0.1929 129 New York Kings Point Village 5,138 1.00 0.1946 130 Massachusetts Carlisle 5,126 1.00 0.195 131 Indiana Bluffton 9,985 2.00 0.2003 132 Pennsylvania Northampton 9,912 2.00 0.2017 133 Ohio Bath Township, Summit 9,858 2.00 0.2028

134 New York Rye Brook Village 9,602 2.00 0.2082 135 Pennsylvania Economy 9,371 2.00 0.2134 136 Texas Highland Park 9,045 2.00 0.2211 137 New York Macedon Town and Village 8,962 2.00 0.2231 138 Connecticut Woodbridge 8,907 2.00 0.2245 139 New Jersey Ocean Township, Ocean 8,730 2.00 0.229 140 Maine Topsham 8,703 2.00 0.2298 141 New Hampstead 8,607 2.00 0.2323 142 New Jersey Northfield 8,600 2.00 0.2325 143 Maine Yarmouth 8,552 2.00 0.2338 144 New Jersey North Haledon 8,521 2.00 0.2347 145 New Jersey Upper Saddle River 8,376 2.00 0.2387 146 New York Hornell 8,367 2.00 0.239 147 Texas Heath 8,176 2.00 0.2446 148 Illinois West Frankfort 8,025 2.00 0.2492 149 Michigan Houghton 7,985 2.00 0.2504 150 Pennsylvania Conshohocken 7,908 2.00 0.2529 151 Washington Duvall 7,882 2.00 0.2537 152 Pennsylvania North Cornwall Township 7,795 2.00 0.2565 153 Missouri Carl Junction 7,709 2.00 0.2594 154 Connecticut Middlebury 7,594 2.00 0.2633 155 Massachusetts Dighton 7,376 2.00 0.2711 156 Indiana Tell City 7,254 2.00 0.2757 157 Pennsylvania Buffalo Township 7,229 2.00 0.2766 158 Kentucky Highland Heights 7,214 2.00 0.2772 159 Massachusetts Groveland 7,211 2.00 0.2773 160 Wisconsin Delafield 7,181 2.00 0.2785 161 New Jersey Milltown 7,054 2.00 0.2835 162 Ohio Delphos 7,024 2.00 0.2847 163 Oklahoma Piedmont 6,996 2.00 0.2858 164 Ohio Cortland 6,931 2.00 0.2885 165 New Atkinson 6,853 2.00 0.2918 166 Illinois Greenville 6,847 2.00 0.292 167 Oklahoma Tuttle 6,679 2.00 0.2994 168 New York Canton Village 6,677 2.00 0.2995 169 Pennsylvania Tiadaghton Valley Regional 6,611 2.00 0.3025 170 Colorado Cherry Hills Village 6,530 2.00 0.3062 171 Ohio Beaver Township 6,530 2.00 0.3062 172 Washington Brier 6,521 2.00 0.3067 173 New Jersey Maywood 9,776 3.00 0.3068 174 New York Cairo Town 6,465 2.00 0.3093 175 Illinois Winfield 9,679 3.00 0.3099 176 Texas Kermit 6,446 2.00 0.3102 177 New York Potsdam Village 9,667 3.00 0.3103 178 Michigan Huntington Woods 6,386 2.00 0.3131

179 Pennsylvania Tunkhannock Township, Wyoming 6,334 2.00 0.3157 180 Connecticut Portland 9,430 3.00 0.3181 181 New Jersey Carlstadt 6,267 2.00 0.3191 182 Missouri Shrewsbury 6,199 2.00 0.3226 183 Kentucky Wilmore 6,179 2.00 0.3236 184 Pennsylvania Ohio Township 6,162 2.00 0.3245 185 Michigan Grosse Pointe Farms 9,242 3.00 0.3246 186 Pennsylvania Bethel Township, Delaware 9,198 3.00 0.3261 187 New Jersey Leonia 9,170 3.00 0.3271 188 Virginia Bridgewater 6,029 2.00 0.3317 189 Ohio Shelby 9,038 3.00 0.3319 190 Washington Liberty Lake 8,911 3.00 0.3366 191 Kentucky Edgewood 8,775 3.00 0.3418 192 New Jersey Rochelle Park Township 5,834 2.00 0.3428 193 West Virginia Charles Town 5,816 2.00 0.3438 194 New Jersey Matawan 8,696 3.00 0.3449 195 New Jersey Wood-Ridge 8,657 3.00 0.3465 196 Indiana Angola 8,631 3.00 0.3475 197 New Jersey Closter 8,629 3.00 0.3476 198 Massachusetts Georgetown 8,615 3.00 0.3482 199 Missouri Park Hills 8,581 3.00 0.3496 200 Illinois Willow Springs 5,720 2.00 0.3496 201 New York Wappingers Falls Village 5,618 2.00 0.3559 202 Ohio Highland Heights 8,373 3.00 0.3582 203 Pennsylvania North Londonderry Township 8,343 3.00 0.3595 204 Pennsylvania Millcreek Township, Lebanon 5,557 2.00 0.3599 205 New York Waterford Town and Village 8,332 3.00 0.36 206 Pennsylvania Shippensburg 5,550 2.00 0.3603 207 New York Highlands Town 8,303 3.00 0.3613 208 Missouri Pleasant Hill 8,280 3.00 0.3623 209 Pennsylvania Findlay Township 5,513 2.00 0.3627 210 New Jersey Independence Township 5,512 2.00 0.3628 211 Illinois Pinckneyville 5,509 2.00 0.363 212 Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Westmoreland 8,262 3.00 0.3631 213 California La Habra Heights 5,500 2.00 0.3636 214 Ohio Germantown 5,496 2.00 0.3639 215 Missouri Willard 5,495 2.00 0.3639 216 Pennsylvania Upper Makefield Township 8,241 3.00 0.364 217 Ohio Sugarcreek Township 8,212 3.00 0.3653 218 Tennessee Mount Carmel 5,458 2.00 0.3664 219 Pennsylvania West Earl Township 8,150 3.00 0.368 220 Illinois Mascoutah 7,951 3.00 0.3773 221 Vermont Shelburne 7,890 3.00 0.3802

222 New York Pound Ridge Town 5,257 2.00 0.3804 223 Virginia Dumfries 5,243 2.00 0.3814 224 New 225 Pennsylvania Washington Township, Northampton Hollis 7,790 3.00 0.3851 5,181 2.00 0.386 226 Indiana Tipton 5,151 2.00 0.3882 227 Pennsylvania Birdsboro 5,147 2.00 0.3885 228 Wisconsin Beloit Town 7,673 3.00 0.3909 229 Illinois Colona 5,095 2.00 0.3925 230 New Plaistow 7,640 3.00 0.3926 231 Wisconsin Geneva Town 5,063 2.00 0.395 232 Minnesota Dayton 5,055 2.00 0.3956 233 Oregon Hood River 7,556 3.00 0.397 234 Ohio Sunbury 5,037 2.00 0.397 235 Rhode Island Glocester 9,980 4.00 0.4008 236 Illinois Marengo 7,472 3.00 0.4014 237 Maine Hampden 7,427 3.00 0.4039 238 Pennsylvania East Pikeland Township 7,423 3.00 0.4041 239 Texas Seminole 7,396 3.00 0.4056 240 New Jersey Haddon Heights 7,340 3.00 0.4087 241 Pennsylvania South Heidelberg Township 7,329 3.00 0.4093 242 Pennsylvania Indiana Township 7,321 3.00 0.4097 243 New Jersey Green Brook Township 7,261 3.00 0.4131 244 Pennsylvania Washington Township, Westmoreland 7,254 3.00 0.4135 245 California Atherton 7,205 3.00 0.4163 246 Ohio Independence 7,139 3.00 0.4202 247 Missouri Bonne Terre 7,058 3.00 0.425 248 Pennsylvania Neshannock Township 9,382 4.00 0.4263 249 Pennsylvania Dallas Township 9,294 4.00 0.4303 250 Maine Brewer 9,279 4.00 0.431