Most Secure U.S. Places to Live - We are #1

Health, prosperity, safety and security are all desirable aspects when it comes to seeking a place to live work or raise a family. According to our fourth annual Most Secure U.S. Places to live rankings from Farmers Insurance Group of Companies®, the city/metropolitan-area that best meets those qualifications is the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area in northern California's Silicon Valley tops all large metropolitan areas (population of 500,000 or greater), scoring particularly well in the extreme weather and terrorist threats categories. The area is considered one of the leading research and development centers of the world; in 2005, San Jose and Sunnyvale ranked first and second in the number of utility patents filed in the U.S.

Large Metro Areas (500,000 or more residents)

1. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.

2. Boise City-Nampa, Idaho

3. Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, Md.

4. San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, Calif.

5. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-¬Ventura, Calif.

6. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.

7. Nassau County-Suffolk County, N.Y.

8. New Haven-Milford, Conn.

9. Lake County, Ill./Kenosha County, Wis.

10. Honolulu, Hawaii

11. Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine

12. Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, Mass.

13. Edison, N.J.

14. Portland-Beaverton, Ore./Vancouver, Wash.

15. Santa Ana-Anaheim, Calif.

16. Madison, Wis.

17. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash.

18. Rochester, N.Y.

19. Syracuse, N.Y.

20. Essex County, Mass.

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