in order to determine the safest states in which to live, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states across five key dimensions:
1) Personal & Residential Safety,
2) Financial Safety,
3) Road Safety,
4) Workplace Safety, and
5) Emergency Preparedness.
Wallethub evaluated those dimensions using 37 relevant metrics ... Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the highest level of safety. Wallethub then calculated the total score for each state based on its weighted average across all metrics and used the resulting scores to construct the final ranking.