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Asheville, NC · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Asheville

Asheville ranks T#118 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 13 — Quiet. That puts it in the 13th percentile nationally and #6 of 6 in North Carolina.

safety score
13
Quiet
National rank
T#118 of 134
In North Carolina
#6 of 6
Percentile
13th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Asheville sits 37 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Asheville

  1. T#116 Denver, CO 14
  2. T#116 Philadelphia, PA 14
  3. T#118 Asheville, NC — this page 13
  4. T#120 Cleveland, OH 12
  5. T#120 Kansas City, MO 12

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Asheville

Asheville scores 85 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: