Are you a human? Now before you get up and check the mirror if you understood my words you probably
are and that means this video is for you what is going on everyone welcome back to world according
to briggs and a video about the safest cities in the united states one of the top things written
in human dna is safety humans want to be safe safe from the elements safe from starvation
safe from each other and that whole safe from each other thing is probably number
one these days there's a lot of stupid humans out there doing horrible things to each other
last week we did a video on the best cities to live in texas and while we were doing the research
for that video we noticed they have a lot of cities that have a very low violent crime rate and
some of them hadn't had a murder in over a decade and when you're a city of over a hundred thousand
like on this video that's hard to pull off sure some little town of two three hundred people
their last murder may have been when nixon was in office you know that's easy to pull off when you
don't have a lot of people when you have over a hundred thousand in a city and you haven't had a
murder and your violent crime rate is really low you're doing something right but this video is
about safety in places that you have a very slim chance of being the victim of a violent crime
as we get older that becomes more and more important to us today's video we're ranking
the safest cities by what their violent crime rate is i'm going to give you some other stats about
their murder rate and where it stands against the national average all right let's see what we got
number 10 glendale california yeah that's right you heard me i said california california's got
some really nice and really safe places and glendale's not too far from los angeles so
that should probably shock a lot of you glendale is extremely safe glendale is a city of just
over 200 000 residents in the los angeles metro area it is located about 10 miles
north of downtown los angeles and it's got the san gabriel mountains behind in its over
by another nice area called la canada flint ridge glendale boasts a violent crime rate
that is 70 percent lower than the national average the national average for murders is
5 for every 100 000 residents glendale is half that they're 2.5 for every 100 000 residents
if you look at assaults the national average is 250 for every 100 000 residents glendale has 57.7
for every 100 000 residents so even though it's not too far from downtown l.a and it's
got some you know nasty neighborhoods within 20 miles glendale is a very safe place to live
number nine league city texas yep our old friend league city they were just in the
last video as a great place to live in texas they've got all the right stats and all the
right places the only thing bad about league city is it can get expensive housing and cost
of living there but chances are you're not going to be assaulted or killed or anything like that
league city has seen a pretty steep increase in population since the last census in 2010
they only had 83 000 residents right now they're sitting on 105 000 residents normally when a place
grows that quick they start having some crime problems league cities hold it together they don't
have many problems i mean cost of living that's about it the violent crime rate in league city
is 71 percent lower than the national average and league city only sees 2.7 murders for every 100
000 residents their assault numbers are 43.9 every 100 000 residents like i said before the
national average is 250 assaults for every 100 000 residents definitely a good place to live
you know if you get too close to houston all bets are off though i mean houston has some pretty uh
ugly areas and league city is 30 minutes south down the interstate 45 from downtown houston
but one great thing about it is they're really close to galveston so that's nice
number eight gilbert arizona i've never been a big fan of any place in arizona mostly because
i don't like the heat and i don't like the desert but you cannot deny gilbert is a
great place to live they have about 243 000 residents living there and their murder rate
is 0.4 for every 100 000 residents not even one point four this is a very safe place to live you
might get assaulted though they're a little high compared to some of the other ones on this list
59.5 for every 100 000 residents again national average is 250. the violent crime rate in gilbert
arizona is 75 lower than the national average on top of all that good stuff housing isn't
terribly expensive the cost of living isn't crazy bad it's a little up there but it's not
crazy bad and uh their schools are decent so yeah it's definitely a good place to live and safe
number seven mcallen texas mcallen texas is a south texas city of just about 140 000 residents
not too far from brownsville it might be a good place to live my understanding is somewhere around
brownsville elon musk is going to be building another factory of some sort and they're going
to be looking for a lot of employees so that might be good it's about an hour and a half west from
south padre island so that's always something to do you're looking for something to do in mcallen
i don't know if it's a new mall i was only in one part of it but it was either renovated
or the whole thing was new but it's called la plaza it was a really nice little mall they got
a yard house there a great place to have a beer anyway mcallen stats are great across the board
their housing isn't the best but it's not horrible but where they really shine is their crime their
murder rate is 0.7 for every 100 000 residents and their assaults are 46.2 for every 100 000
residents their violent crime rate is 75 percent lower than the national average this is a great
place to live if you don't mind the heat and they got great tacos too oh my god fabulous tacos there
i could make a whole channel devoted to my love of tacos but mcallen is right on the border with
mexico i think they're legally obligated to have great tacos i think those are the rules
number six pearland another city from our best places to live in texas video pearland is another
city south of houston that is very safe like i said before houston's not known for being
a really really safe city i mean it's got its problems like every major city and it's one of the
largest so it's to be expected not cast no shade on them but you think pearl and being so close
some of that crime stuff would rub off on them not at all they have 2.4 murders for every 100
000 residents and assaults are only 31.7 for every 100
000 residents so that's really good their violent crime rate is 76 percent below the
national average they're doing outstanding they got a lot of other nice little places
around them but pearland is a really nice place of 106 000 residents that enjoy a safe community
number five allen texas allen has another sweet spot that was on the last list about
texas it's just north of plano in the dallas fort worth metro area allen has around 105
000 residents and a great family section that has a top golf a wake boarding hydro park a skate park
a bunch of softball fields and a guy named larry who's been trying to cross breed strawberries
and watermelons for over 17 years this is an extremely safe family friendly place to live
allen hasn't had a murder in years so their murder rate is 0.0 they have had 51 assaults two of which
included a man with a watermelon the violent crime rate in allen is 78 below the national average
number four frisco texas frisco is just west of allen and it has a bunch of golf
courses we talked about that in the last list between mckinney allen and frisco they've got
like 12 golf courses there's far too many golf courses for this area frisco's another
safe place to live next to no crime hardly i mean we're not getting into the property
crime or anything but their property crime is 63 percent lower than the national average so
nobody's stealing stuff around here and on top of that nobody's killing anyone either
it's 0.5 for every 100 000 residents getting murdered here and as far as assaults go it's
41.6 for every 100 000 residents those aren't bad numbers the violent crime rate here is 79
lower than the national average and frisco is just all around a great place to live with all
the right stats and all the right places except for cost of living as we've learned in the past
if it's got great stats everywhere the only one that's going to suck is cost of living
and if it's got horrible stats everywhere the only one that's going to be decent is the cost
of living it's how the world works frisco has 145 000 residents enjoying those great stats
number three naperville illinois naperville is where you want to move to after you've lived
in chicago getting gouged on rent enduring an extreme cost of living and witnessing weekly
felonies of varying degrees naperville is about 30 minutes west of chicago maybe 45
or an hour on the train if you work in the city so it's a great place to live it's a nice suburb of
chicago you could just head on in if you need to work there i wouldn't advise it naperville unlike
chicago is quiet and safe and they have about 145 000 residents enjoying that quiet and safety
their murder rate is 0.0 which is phenomenal and their assault rate is only 35 for every 100 000
residents so you got some safe streets in naperville the violent crime rate is
82 percent lower than the national average that's not bad for being so close to chicago
number two murrieta california murrieta and temecula which is right next door is where
you went to buy a house in the late 80s through the 90s if you couldn't afford san diego or los
angeles anymore i have a ton of friends that did this they still live there to this day
the good news is it's extremely safe which is kind of shocking when you know that hemet and
lake elsinore are in the general vicinity those two places suck murrieta temecula are great the
downside is they don't have jobs out in murrieta so if you work from home this is great or you're
going to be commuting that's all there is to it these places back in the late 80s early
90s i'd say there may be 20 000 people living in each one of these cities now murrieta has
103 000 residents while temecula right next door has about 114 000 so this is not a big place and
traffic has gotten really bad and it's gotten really crowded but it's still nice and it's safe
both of them but the murder rate in murrieta is 2.6 for every 100 000 residents and their
assaults is only 20.9 for every 100 000 residents so that's pretty good their violent crime rate is
83 percent lower than the national average not bad all right before we get to number one don't forget
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subscribers all right on to number one and number one irvine california how about that we're in
california again irvine is one of the best places to live in southern california that's just a fact
back in january we did a video on the best cities to live in california and it was on there it's a
great place to live you're not too far from the beach it has jobs good schools tons of things
to do sure cost of living is up there houses are expensive they got their fair share of traffic i
mean it's not too far from los angeles technically it's in orange county but it's really close to
los angeles so they got traffic it's a little crowded but it's still a great place to live
as far as safety goes it's incredible keep in mind this is in the los angeles vicinity i won't say
it's in the metro area but it's in the vicinity of los angeles and their murder rate is 0.3
out of 100 000. that ain't bad their assaults are only 23.6 again phenomenal and their violent
crime rate is 83 percent lower than the national average this is outstanding for a city that has
246 000 residents it's actually a little bit more now it's closer to 250 000 with the new
census but Irvine California is the absolute safest city to live in the united states
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information on it
if you think there's a city that is safer that has over a hundred thousand i would
love to hear about it in the comments section below maybe we'll do another video like this
all right everyone has a great day be nice to each other