SafetyAtlas
2026 · Vol. I
2026 Edition · Released

A population-adjusted map of American safety, drawn from FBI primary data.

Eighteen NIBRS offense classes. Every reporting agency in the United States. Population-adjusted so small jurisdictions are not over-rewarded by one-off rates. Public methodology summary included.

Used by relocation desks, P&C underwriters, newsroom data desks, multifamily investors, and policy researchers. One dataset, five framings. The free sample is below.

Fig. 01 · Composite Safety Index, U.S. states · 2025 Interactive layer loads on hover
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Text version (screen readers)

Composite safety index, 51 states + DC, 2020-2025 source coverage. Top five (safest): Vermont (90), New Hampshire (88), Maine (85), Idaho (82), Rhode Island (80). Bottom five: New Mexico (39), Alaska (38), Louisiana (42), Arkansas (45), Mississippi (50). Population-adjusted on a log-10 curve.

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Fig. 02 · Year-over-Year

Who improved. Who didn't.

Change in composite score, 2024 → 2025. The seven biggest movers in each direction.

Top movers improving

Top movers declining

A reader

The Vermont statehouse reporter has thirty minutes before the 6 p.m. budget meeting. The story is whether last session's bill moved the needle on assault rates. She needs a one-page state brief her editor will let her cite by URL.

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Fig. 03 · Offense Decomposition

Which crimes drive a state's score.

Stacked share of the total crime penalty. Pick a state to repaint. Six rolling categories shown here; the full 18 ship in every Excel edition.

Fig. 04 · Peer Discovery

Type a state. Find its five statistical peers.

Cosine similarity on the full 18-offense vector. Relocation desks use this to find lookalike markets when the original one prices out.

A realtor

Janet runs the relocation desk at a brokerage in Austin. For ten years, every buyer asked about crime and she said the same thing: "I can't legally answer that." In April HUD said she could. She needs an answer she can read in two minutes and a methodology page she can link to without losing the next listing.

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Fig. 05 · Data Lineage

Where our coverage is dense, and where we say so.

Hatched fill = states with agencies reporting below the 80% threshold. We do not impute the difference. We disclose it on the front page.

FBI NIBRS, voluntary reporting.

NIBRS adoption is uneven. Some states report at 99%+, others below 60%. Every visualization on this page is gated to states meeting our 80% threshold; the rest are flagged, not estimated.

This is the disclosure most aggregators skip. We publish it under the hero.

A · ≥95%
B · 80–95%
C · 60–80%
D · <60%
Fig. 06 · Computation Walkthrough

Watch a state get computed, line by line.

No black-box claims. Pick a state and see how the inputs move. The public method summary lives at /methodology.

An underwriter

A P&C underwriter at a mid-size carrier is preparing a rate filing for the state DOI. The crime-risk vendor she has been using will not explain its sources or limitations. The DOI reviewer will not approve a filing whose inputs cannot be defended in writing. She needs a crime score with source notes, coverage notes, and a documented audit path.

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Fig. 07 · Sample Size

Every reporting agency, one dot.

Density = how thoroughly a state's data is covered. The denser the column, the deeper county- and city-level breakdowns can go without imputation.

Fig. 08 · Equal-Area Cartogram

Same data. Geography deflated.

Choropleths reward large states. The hex cartogram treats Rhode Island and Wyoming as equals. The eye finds different stories.

Fig. 08½ · What you actually get

Three formats. Same data. Same methodology.

Before you buy, you should see the format. Every paid suite ships as a PDF for reading and an XLSX or CSV for working. Programmatic access is custom-scoped only.

PDF · state scorecard
SAFETY ATLAS · VOL. I · 2026
Vermont · Composite 63.49 · Rank 1
─────────────────────────────
Personal     85.4  (national 50.0)
Property     63.8
Community    56.9
─────────────────────────────
TOP 5 SAFEST     SCORE
Rutland Town     90.9
Stowe            88.2
Manchester       86.4
Hartford         83.7
Williston        81.6
─────────────────────────────
Cite as: Safety Atlas (2026).
"Vermont 2026." Vol. I, p. 51.
XLSX · all cities × 18 offenses
CITY_ID         POP      ADJ.   HOM/100K   ASS/100K
BURLINGTON_VT   44,649   47.09  2.24       389.71
S_BURLINGTON_VT 20,488   57.77  0.00       170.83
RUTLAND_VT      15,747   57.17  12.70       393.73
RUTLAND_TOWN_VT 15,747   90.94  0.00       38.10
…
12 sheets per state · 63 columns per city
Cover · Cities · Top 50 · Bottom 50
Watchlist · Leaderboards · Neighborhoods
NIBRS Victims · Offenders · Weapons
NIBRS Hotspots · Methodology
JSON · custom export shape
city/VT/burlington.json
{
  "city_id": "BURLINGTON_VT",
  "population": 44649,
  "adj_score": 47.09,
  "raw_score": 43.11,
  "categories": {
    "personal":  55.32,
    "property":  27.70,
    "community": 35.71
  },
  "coverage_note": "reported agency coverage disclosed",
  "offenses": { "HOM": {...}, ... },
  "as_of": "2025-12-31",
  "methodology": "v1.0"
}

PDF and XLSX ship with every suite · CSV/JSON exports are custom-scoped.

§ Five Suites · One Atlas

Same data. Five buyers. Five framings.

Each suite is a bundle of views, packaged for one buyer. The data is the same. The framing — and the depth — is what differs.

Editions · 2026

Six problems. One solution.

Single state, national bundle, or the all-five Atlas. Single payment, no subscription, 7-day refund by reply.

Single payment · no subscription · 7-day money-back · invoice on request · Razorpay USD
An investor

An analyst at a multifamily REIT is screening secondary markets in the Southeast. The pitch deck needs an Econ × Crime quadrant — high median income, top-quartile safety, growth permits up. No vendor sells that combination openly. She has a Tuesday meeting.

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Fig. 09 · Data Changelog

An active product, not a one-off PDF.

Provenance entries appended on every ingest. Methodology changes flagged separately. Errata trigger automatic refunds for the prior 30 days.