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October 30, 2006

Bellevue, WA – Top 20 safest places in America

Filed under: All Posts, Seattle WA — Jerry @ 2:15 pm

CNNMoney.com is reporting today that all of the cities in the US with populations of at least 75,000.  Bellevue, WA is one of the safest places to live in America.  Morgan Quinto Press, an independent research publisher in Lawerence, Kansas released the study monday.

The report studied 371 cities based on FBI crime statistics.  Bellevue, WA was listed with a crime rate of 145.2 per 100,000 residents.  On top of the list of safest towns was Brick Township, NJ with a 55.9 rate.  Here’s a link on data for my Bellingham, WA crime rate and Whatcom County viewers.  Lots of good data can be found on this site for Bellingham, WA.

The top two cities with the highest crime rate, according to the study, were this years World Series participants St. Louis, MO with a crime rate of 2,405.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, and Detroit at 2,357.6  via CNNMoney.com

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