Safest Counties by State: 37 States Ranked (2026)
The safest counties in 37 US states, ranked by the violent crime rate their police agencies reported to the FBI for 2025, with home prices, rents and incomes where available.
Every state page below ranks counties by the violent crime rate their police agencies reported to the FBI for 2025, over the months they reported, and shows the closed home price, asking rent and household income where Resideline's coverage allows. A county is ranked when its agencies cover at least 90 percent of its residents, it has 50,000 or more people, and its rate sits inside sanity bounds; where a state's own figures conflict materially with the FBI-based rate, the county is set aside and the page says so.
The method and the national finding behind these pages, that a county's crime rate stops predicting its home prices once income and other county characteristics are controlled for, are in Does crime actually lower home prices?.
The states
| State | Counties ranked | Safest county | Violent per 100k | Median closed price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 26 | Shelby | 128 | $375,000 |
| Arizona | 11 | Cochise | 159 | $260,000 |
| Arkansas | 12 | Crawford | 239 | $235,000 |
| California | 42 | Marin | 182 | $1,384,277 |
| Colorado | 15 | Eagle | 122 | $1,575,000 |
| Florida | 27 | St. Johns | 77 | $475,000 |
| Georgia | 35 | Forsyth | 55 | n/a |
| Idaho | 9 | Madison | 59 | $395,000 |
| Illinois | 20 | McHenry | 60 | $357,809 |
| Indiana | 20 | Hamilton | 74 | $440,000 |
| Iowa | 10 | Warren | 101 | n/a |
| Kansas | 9 | Johnson | 193 | $465,208 |
| Kentucky | 19 | Shelby | 46 | $324,120 |
| Louisiana | 14 | St. Tammany | 125 | $300,000 |
| Maine | 8 | Hancock | 25 | $405,000 |
| Maryland | 18 | Queen Anne's | 117 | $525,000 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | Norfolk | 177 | n/a |
| Michigan | 31 | Livingston | 90 | $391,262 |
| Minnesota | 18 | Wright | 43 | $386,145 |
| Mississippi | 10 | Rankin | 63 | $289,350 |
| Missouri | 16 | Christian | 105 | $340,000 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | Carroll | 88 | $485,000 |
| New Jersey | 20 | Morris | 33 | $670,000 |
| New Mexico | 9 | Sandoval | 305 | n/a |
| North Carolina | 42 | Cabarrus | 120 | $355,000 |
| Ohio | 33 | Warren | 51 | $385,000 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | Logan | 160 | $324,500 |
| Oregon | 17 | Yamhill | 131 | $476,900 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | Lebanon | 69 | n/a |
| South Carolina | 22 | Beaufort | 184 | $559,973 |
| Tennessee | 32 | Hawkins | 121 | $244,900 |
| Texas | 69 | Kendall | 89 | $599,000 |
| Utah | 9 | Box Elder | 111 | n/a |
| Virginia | 36 | Fauquier | 59 | $636,000 |
| Washington | 18 | Island | 78 | $599,625 |
| West Virginia | 8 | Jefferson | 102 | $390,000 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | Waukesha | 66 | $480,000 |
Held
- •New York: held: FBI submissions from New York agencies run at about 0.7x the state's own DCJS figures for 2024, and the two safest counties on the draft page were at 0.3x and 0.5x, so the page cannot be ranked from the FBI feed.
How to read these pages
A county rate is a single figure for a whole county, so the ranking narrows a search; it does not describe a street. Prices are true medians over the closings Resideline tracked in the 12 months to September 2026 and appear only where at least 100 closings were tracked. Rents are asking rents on listings. Income is the Census SAIPE 2024 county median. Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer, Census SAIPE, Census population estimates.
Prepared with Resideline's research pipeline and reviewed by Jeffrey Batista, Resideline's founder.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can these rankings be compared across states?
Only loosely. Each page ranks counties within its own state, because reporting practices, offense definitions and the share of the population covered differ from state to state. A county with a lower rate in one state is not necessarily safer than a county with a higher rate in another.
Why is my state missing?
Either fewer than eight of its counties clear the reporting bar (agencies covering 90 percent of residents, 50,000 or more people, a rate inside sanity bounds), or its agencies' FBI submissions run far below the state's own figures, in which case we hold the page rather than publish a ranking we cannot stand behind.
Is a county rate the same as neighborhood safety?
No. Every part of a county carries the same number here. Use these pages to compare counties, then look at the specific address; research at block scale finds that violent crime does lower the value of the homes nearest to it.
About the author
Jeffrey Batista
Jeffrey Batista is the founder of Resideline, a real estate technology company building institutional grade valuation and investment analysis tools for real estate investors.
A software engineer with more than 10 years of experience, Jeffrey has worked across full stack development, infrastructure, data engineering, machine learning, and large scale systems. He left his engineering career to build Resideline full time.
Jeffrey is also a real estate investor with nearly a decade of hands on experience buying, renovating, managing, and analyzing residential properties. His experience on both sides of the industry, as an engineer and an investor, led him to build Resideline after seeing how fragmented and outdated many of the tools available to individual investors were.
Today, he leads the development of Resideline's proprietary data infrastructure, automated valuation models, rental analytics, and investment underwriting technology.