It’s the “Residence of the Blues” for extra than simply music.
Memphis is taken into account essentially the most harmful US metropolis to reside in — not solely when it comes to crime but in addition when contemplating different dangers like automotive accidents, monetary security and pure disasters, in accordance with research.
The Tennessee metropolis — which is also called the “Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “Bluff Metropolis” — had 129 homicides within the first six months of 2024, which is greater than another metropolis within the nation, in accordance with the August findings from the Main Cities Chiefs Affiliation Violent Crime Survey.
Nonetheless, homicides declined in Memphis from the prior yr, when there have been 156 within the first six months of 2023, the research discovered.
However Memphis — which was the house of well-known musicians together with Elvis, Johnny Money, Aretha Franklin and Justin Timberlake — additionally ranks low on a number of different key elements that WalletHub makes use of to find out a inhabitants’s total security.
Memphis landed on the backside of a WalletHub survey of 182 cities due to low marks in classes together with residents’ monetary security, dwelling and group security and threat of pure catastrophe.
The town ranked second-to-last on the subject of residents’ monetary security and, extra particularly, has the bottom proportion of households with emergency financial savings, the survey discovered.
And it ranks third-to-last when it comes to dwelling and group security with its excessive murder fee and being among the many backside 10 cities when it comes to assault per capita.
It additionally ranks 173rd in visitors deaths per capita, in accordance with WalletHub.
In 2022, Memphis was lifeless final when it got here to visitors deaths, in accordance with information from the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration launched in June.
Memphis earned barely higher marks within the class of pure disasters, rating one hundred and first, the research reveals.
Not surprisingly, a July WalletHub research discovered that Memphians have been additionally a few of the most stressed-out residents within the nation.
Alternatively, Yonkers, New York, was the sixth most secure metropolis on WalletHub’s survey, incomes third-safest in dwelling and group, twenty ninth in threat of pure catastrophe and 139th in monetary security.
South Burlington, Vt.; Casper, Wy., Warwick, Rhode Island, Burlington, Vt.; and Boise, Idaho have been the highest 5 most secure cities total within the survey.