TN Ranked 5th Most Dangerous State in the Country

TN Ranked 5th Most Dangerous State in the Country

Tennessee natives and transplants from elsewhere might agree that the Volunteer State seems to be one of the safest in the nation. But a new survey says otherwise, ranking Tennessee as the fifth most-dangerous state in America.

WalletHub, a personal-finance website, used a myriad of meanings for the term “safety” and plugged those definitions into a fairly complicated, multi-category breakdown using statistics from 14 different sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The statistics were dispersed into five general categories: Home and Community Safety; Financial Safety; Road Safety; Workplace Safety and Safety From Natural Disasters. Home and Community Safety was weighted with 40 percent of the overall score, while the other four categories were each weighted with 15 percent of the score for a total of 100.

General categories were broken down into sub-categories such as murder, rape and suicide rates for Home and Community, and unemployment and poverty rates for Financial Safety.

Tennessee landed in the bottom half of every general category, including No. 28 for Workplace Safety, No. 33 for Financial Safety and No. 35 for Road Safety

Even worse, the state ranked No. 43 for Home and Community Safety, partly fueled by its No. 50 ranking in the subcategory of “most assaults per capita.” (For what it’s worth, the District of Columbia, which was included in the survey, was No. 51.)

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