The City of Valparaiso has been named once again as one of the safest cities in Indiana by the Safewise Organization, which is a national company specializing in home safety and security industry. Valparaiso was listed as the 17th overall safest city in Indiana. The organization ranks the top safest cities in the state. Previously Valparaiso was ranked 26th (2016). Valparaiso was ranked 9th (lowest city) in violent crimes per 1000 residents.
The organization based their rankings on 2015 FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics combined with population data and internal research. Any city that failed to submit a complete crime report to the FBI, and cities with populations under 4000, were eliminated.
Cities were ranked based on the number of reported violent crimes (i.e. murder, robbery, rape and aggravated assaults) and property crimes, (i.e. burglary, arson, thefts and motor vehicle theft). A formula was used to rank the cities based on crimes per 1000 individuals. Ligonier was named as the safest city in Indiana by the organization.