Boston, Dallas safest cities to live in, according to new Gallup poll

Gallup poll overview: 

• Who: Boston and Dallas were named the safest of 16 large United States cities in a new Gallup poll. 
• Why: Boston and Dallas were considered the safest in the Gallup poll, at the opposite end of the spectrum from Chicago and Detroit.
• Where: The poll included opinions from across the United States.

A new Gallup poll shows that American adults consider Boston and Dallas the safest U.S. cities out of 16 available options. The least safe cities, according to the poll, are Chicago and Detroit.

Dallas has 74% of adults considering it safe while Boston was at 72%. They were followed by Seattle, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., with between 52% and 63% considering those cities safe.

Detroit (26%) and Chicago (27%) were at the bottom of the Gallup safest cities poll, followed by Philadelphia (47%), New York (41%) and Los Angeles (41%). The poll was conducted between July 3 and July 27.

The safest cities poll also looked at how those who identified with different political parties looked at how safe those cities are.

“With the exception of Dallas and Miami, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are substantially more likely than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents to perceive each city as safe,” the Gallup poll analysis stated. “On average, the party gap today across the 16 cities is 29 percentage points, much greater than the two-point gap in the 2006 poll.”

Just nine of the 16 cities were considered safe in the 2006 Gallup safest cities poll

The Gallup poll was the seventh time the company asked about most of the cities since 1990, with New Orleans and Las Vegas included in the poll one previous time in 2006. The 2006 poll showed that nine of the 16 cities were considered safe while 11 of those cities are considered safe in the most recent poll.

New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. are all more likely to be considered safe now than they were in 2006.

A recent survey from the Council on Criminal Justice revealed the rate of homicides in U.S. cities saw a drop of nearly 10% in the first half of 2023, compared to the same period last year, according to data from 30 cities included in the council’s midyear survey update on crime trends in U.S. cities. 

Do you feel like your city is safe? Let us know in the comments.

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