Affordable and safe: cities in the cheapest quartile with the safest schools

This is a filter, not a blended score. We take the cities in the cheapest 25% by Zillow's typical home value, then rank those by school safety percentile. Combining price and safety into one number would hide the trade-off you are actually trying to see, so we don't.

Safety percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities, from the 2021-22 federal collection · a city appears only when at least 5 of its schools have reporting complete enough to score.

100 cities in the cheapest quartile, safest first

#	CITY	STATE	SAFETY PCTL	TYPICAL HOME VALUE	SCHOOLS SCORED
1	Moultrie	GA	99	$169,915	6 of 8
2	Corbin	KY	98	$171,534	7 of 12
3	Forest Park	GA	97	$167,448	6 of 8
4	Bedford	OH	96	$160,174	6 of 7
5	Jasper	AL	96	$168,968	6 of 9
6	Harlingen	TX	93	$199,141	14 of 32
7	Port Arthur	TX	93	$126,888	10 of 20
8	Wabash	IN	93	$190,054	7 of 10
9	Bessemer	AL	93	$135,560	8 of 11
10	Benton	KY	92	$184,917	7 of 9
11	Lake City	SC	92	$128,685	5 of 5
12	Douglas	GA	92	$186,817	8 of 8
13	Crowley	LA	92	$125,777	5 of 6
14	Sandusky	OH	91	$155,425	9 of 10
15	Clinton	SC	91	$169,822	5 of 7
16	Morrilton	AR	91	$172,921	5 of 5
17	Piqua	OH	91	$184,686	6 of 6
18	East Chicago	IN	91	$131,019	8 of 9
19	Booneville	MS	90	$150,111	5 of 7
20	Rock Island	IL	90	$128,847	9 of 13
21	Parkersburg	WV	89	$151,551	12 of 18
22	Americus	GA	89	$135,942	5 of 6
23	Niagara Falls	NY	89	$176,530	9 of 13
24	Pembroke	NC	89	$150,595	5 of 6
25	Fulton	NY	89	$188,061	6 of 7
26	Bay City	MI	89	$127,231	13 of 19
27	Grayson	KY	88	$176,609	5 of 5
28	Louisa	KY	88	$145,864	5 of 5
29	Sikeston	MO	88	$162,825	6 of 12
30	Hazard	KY	87	$104,527	7 of 9
31	Roswell	NM	87	$175,685	15 of 22
32	Tarboro	NC	87	$158,811	6 of 8
33	Rochelle	IL	86	$196,703	5 of 6
34	Bainbridge	GA	86	$173,330	6 of 7
35	Wyandotte	MI	85	$193,338	8 of 9
36	Paris	IL	85	$108,994	5 of 10
37	Pampa	TX	85	$108,636	5 of 6
38	Newberry	SC	85	$173,249	6 of 7
39	DeRidder	LA	85	$178,735	6 of 7
40	Jena	LA	85	$161,358	5 of 5
41	Lincoln Park	MI	84	$156,458	10 of 10
42	Ashtabula	OH	84	$158,249	7 of 12
43	Muncie	IN	84	$158,760	11 of 20
44	Sallisaw	OK	84	$189,405	6 of 7
45	Kentwood	LA	84	$174,061	5 of 6
46	Natchitoches	LA	84	$191,148	9 of 10
47	Liberty	KY	84	$159,857	5 of 5
48	Memphis	TN	84	$146,746	54 of 201
49	Ashland	KY	84	$126,566	8 of 17
50	Henderson	NC	83	$184,425	15 of 17
51	Whitesburg	KY	83	$90,775	5 of 5
52	Ville Platte	LA	83	$106,666	5 of 5
53	Orange	TX	83	$185,289	6 of 13
54	Abbeville	LA	83	$139,316	8 of 8
55	Sidney	NE	83	$180,045	5 of 7
56	McAlester	OK	82	$159,613	6 of 11
57	Valley	AL	82	$181,938	6 of 7
58	Albert Lea	MN	82	$185,100	7 of 10
59	Eunice	LA	82	$113,748	6 of 7
60	Paducah	KY	82	$192,214	13 of 17
61	Adrian	MI	82	$193,364	8 of 14
62	Rayne	LA	81	$175,712	6 of 7
63	Blytheville	AR	81	$105,469	5 of 6
64	Alpena	MI	81	$194,568	7 of 8
65	Burton	MI	81	$159,998	8 of 16
66	Defiance	OH	80	$188,631	6 of 8
67	Ferguson	MO	80	$119,836	7 of 7
68	Brookhaven	MS	80	$165,740	7 of 10
69	Picayune	MS	80	$199,128	7 of 10
70	Montgomery	AL	79	$153,885	37 of 51
71	Richland Center	WI	79	$198,126	5 of 7
72	Riverdale	IL	79	$122,762	5 of 5
73	Moline	IL	78	$153,462	10 of 14
74	Columbus	GA	78	$177,244	45 of 49
75	Plainview	TX	78	$120,203	7 of 12
76	Franklinton	LA	77	$190,443	7 of 7
77	Jackson	MI	77	$195,001	13 of 33
78	Roanoke Rapids	NC	77	$124,295	6 of 7
79	Paragould	AR	77	$197,497	9 of 13
80	Bethany	OK	76	$179,866	8 of 9
81	Quincy	IL	75	$182,838	6 of 11
82	Metropolis	IL	75	$118,025	5 of 6
83	Hutchinson	KS	74	$153,915	9 of 15
84	Greenville	KY	74	$146,981	6 of 6
85	Opelousas	LA	74	$129,235	10 of 12
86	Pascagoula	MS	73	$146,072	7 of 12
87	Sedalia	MO	73	$186,829	7 of 11
88	Caro	MI	73	$186,364	6 of 7
89	Marshall	TX	72	$157,813	7 of 10
90	Camden	NJ	72	$150,576	7 of 23
91	Monroe	LA	71	$155,595	31 of 35
92	Pikeville	KY	71	$128,638	9 of 11
93	Beckley	WV	71	$154,440	10 of 11
94	Moberly	MO	71	$162,384	6 of 7
95	Kankakee	IL	71	$156,135	10 of 13
96	Mayfield	KY	70	$162,674	7 of 10
97	Charleston	IL	70	$164,471	5 of 6
98	Franklin	LA	70	$93,490	5 of 5
99	Russellville	KY	69	$194,296	6 of 8
100	Yazoo City	MS	69	$71,782	5 of 8

How to read this

A high safety percentile here means the schools in that city reported fewer serious incidents per 1,000 students than most ranked cities — as reported. It is not a prediction, and it says nothing about a school we could not score. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI for the city, not a school-zone figure, so a cheap city can still contain expensive attendance zones.

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