{"id":4181,"date":"2017-03-15T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24-7-home-security.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2020-09-06T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T03:08:22","slug":"safest-cities-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24-7-home-security.com\/safest-cities-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Safest Cities in Tennessee 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
Like living in a safe place? Who doesn’t right?<\/p>\n
Want to see how your town stacks up to the rest of Tennessee?<\/p>\n
Check out our list of the safest places<\/a> in Tennessee and explore the data for OVER 60<\/span><\/span> towns embedded in the map down below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tennessee is known as The Volunteer State, and the state motto is \u201cAgriculture and Commerce.\u201d It is has been ranked as the seventeenth most populous state in the country, and was admitted into statehood on June 1st, 1796 as the sixteenth state. Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri border Tennessee. The state capital is Nashville, which is the second largest city in the state, behind Memphis.<\/p>\n The state flower in Tennessee is the Iris, and the state tree is the Tulip Poplar, and both of these can be seen throughout the fifty-four state parks throughout the state. The state animal is the raccoon, and the state bird is the mockingbird. The state has several famous attractions, including the Grand Ole Opry, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Graceland, which is the home of Elvis.<\/p>\n Tennessee has a great many universities and colleges, including Cumberland University, Tennessee State University, the University of Tennessee System, which includes several colleges such as the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the University of Tennessee Space Institute. The state has several sports teams, including NFL team the Tennessee Titans, NBA team Memphis Grizzlies, and NHL team the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To come up with the safest places in Tennessee, we:<\/p>\n Of course, other factors go into the best places to live<\/strong>, but a low crime rate seems like a great place to start!<\/p>\n We were even surprised in a few places. Often, smaller towns are safer, as shown by our burglary risk calculator<\/a>. But, even Knoxville made the list!<\/p>\n That brings up another point, there is a delay in the data for it to get compiled, normalized, and released by the FBI. So, the 2014 data that we had available does lag reality by a bit. And unfortunately, not all localities report this data, so some nice places may have been left out.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Tennessee – The Volunteer State<\/h2>\n
How we ranked the cities<\/h2>\n
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#1 Newport<\/h2>\n