How Tampa And St Pete Score Among Safest Cities In America

How Tampa And St Pete Score Among Safest Cities In America. How safe do you feel? This Wallet Hub ranking reminds us there are different types of safety. Personal safety (Home & Community) Disaster Safety (Natural-Disaster Risk) and Job and Economic (Financial Safety). The latter, thanks to inflation at a four decade high, is one of the biggest fears among those surveyed. Financial Safety. As in all cases, there is risk, and reward. This study examined 180 cities using 42 factors as key indicators to our safety. Looking at the overall ranking, Columbia MD comes in 1st, and St. Louis, MO settled for dead last at 182. Check out the complete safest cities map below.

St. Petersburg, Florida was closer to the bottom of the list with an overall ranking of 150. Coming in 79th at Home & Community Safety. 55th in Financial Safety, and got an NA in Natural Disaster Safety. Go figure.

Tampa did do much better. Coming in at an overall safety rating of 61. That's 68th in Home & Community Safety. 97th in natural disaster, and 84th in financial safety. 

Overall ranking of 181 for safety. Ouch. That hurts. 168th in Home and Community. And 168th in financial safety. Double ouch.
 

The best overall score in Florda was Pembroke coming in at 25. 14th in Community and a whopping 152nd in financial safety.

Not far behing Pembroke is Cape Coral. Great community safety score of 13. But, not so great financially at 115.