America’s 50 safest and richest cities revealed in new list— and 7 are in New Jersey

The American Dream is live and good successful these prosperous places.

The 50 richest and safest cities successful nan US person been unveiled successful a caller database — and it doesn’t look bully for nan Empire State.

New York didn’t people a azygous introduction connected nan list, compiled by GOBankingRates aft examining family mean income, mean location prices, costs of living, spot crime rates, and convulsive crime rates.

However, neighboring New Jersey fared acold better, snagging an awesome 7 spots successful nan rankings.

For their research, GOBankingRates defined a “city” arsenic a residential area pinch a important population. Some of nan “cities” connected nan database are considered commuter towns aliases suburban areas wrong a larger metropolis.

Western Springs, Illinois — a suburban area wrong Greater Chicago — took retired nan title of America’s Richest and Safest City for 2025.

The able enclave is location to astir 14,000 residents, who person a mean family income of $294,896.

The mean worth of a single-family location is $837,328, meaning it’s comparatively affordable erstwhile factored against earnings.

Western Springs is besides highly safe, pinch a spot crime complaint of 2.657 per 1000 and a convulsive crime complaint of conscionable 0.076 per 10000.

Lexington, Massachusetts, snagged 2nd spot connected nan list, pinch likewise debased crime rates and precocious family incomes.

However, nan costs of surviving was considerably higher there, arsenic was nan mean location value, which presently stands astatine an eye-popping $1.69 million.

Winchester, Massachusetts, located conscionable northbound of Boston, rounded retired nan apical three.

The apical New Jersey “city” connected nan database was Ridgewood, which came successful astatine number 11.

The Bergen County commuter municipality is incredibly wealthy, pinch a mean family income of $288,861 and an mean location worth of $1.18 million.

It besides fares good for safety, pinch a spot crime complaint of 6.252 per 1000 and a convulsive crime complaint of 0.379 per 1000.

The six different Garden State cities connected nan database were: Westfield (#13), Madison (#21), Haddonfield (#22), Glen Ridge (#23), Summit (#31), Metuchen (#50).