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Wealth has a strong bearing on how safe your community is, according to a recent study.
The new numbers from SafeWise, a research company specializing in home security and safety products, use federal crime data to calculate a safety ranking of the most populous cities and suburbs in Texas
The ranking also includes median income levels, and there appears to be a strong link between wealth and safety rating
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The safest Texas communities ranking is dominated by wealthy affluent suburbs, mostly near Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth areas, with small populations.
SafeWise used data from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Unified Crime Reporting Program from 2017, the most recent available, to formulate their rankings.
SafeWise reports that the population threshold for the study was based on the state’s median city population. For Texas, cities with populations above 5,000 were considered for the study, according to SafeWise.
The company then calculated how many instances of reported violent crimes (aggravated assault, murder, rape, and robbery) there were per one thousand residents. They also used property crime reports to determine the final rankings.
Click through the gallery to see the 20 most dangerous cities in Texas.