Safety is a key quality-of-life issue, especially for seniors. To determine the safest U.S. states for seniors to live, TheSeniorList.com did a study using recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau to measure safety in five categories:
  1. Fraud reported per 100,000 population.
  2. Monthly housing costs for renters.
  3. Seniors living in poverty.
  4. Average annual rate of violent-injury death among seniors per 100,000 people.
  5. Seniors living alone as percentage of the state's overall population.
As the study shows, weather might be a nice draw for retirees, but everyday life is a factor as well. The rankings for each area go from the best (1) to the worst (51). Washington, D.C., was included in the study. The worst-ranked states in each category were Washington, D.C., in fraud; Hawaii in housing; Washington, D.C., in poverty; Nevada in violent-injury deaths; and Delaware in living alone. Check out the gallery above for the overall 10 riskiest states for seniors as measured by TheSeniorList.com.  Related:

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Ginger Szala

Ginger Szala is executive managing editor of Investment Advisor magazine. She covered the financial business and alternatives industry for 30 years while editor of Futures Magazine Group. MSJ Northwestern, BA University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is based in Chicago. Go Blackhawks!

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