A pair of regional localities were included in the new MoneyGeek ranking of the “25 Safest Small Cities and Towns in America.”
Putnam County”™s Carmel placed third and Westchester”™s Yorktown placed fifth in the listing of municipalities with populations between 30,000 and 100,000. MoneyGeek determined its list by measuring “the cost of crime” with a mix of violent crime and property crime data, determining the crime cost per capita in Carmel was $40 and Yorktown was $54.
Franklin, Massachusetts, topped the list with a crime cost per capita of $12. While no municipality in Connecticut made the top 25, MoneyGeek identified Greenwich as the state”™s safest smaller locality with a crime cost per capita of $92.
