Methodology
How We Evaluate Safety
How safety, violent crime, property crime, stability, and risk signals are represented for retirement decisions.
How this supports retirement decisions
- Safety comparisons use prepared city-level safety fields such as violent crime, property crime, night safety, stability, emergency response, and available risk context.
- Missing safety metrics remain explicit: safety filters exclude missing values and safety sorts place missing values last.
How to use this metric
Use methodology pages to understand what a list, filter, or ranking is trying to measure before treating a city as a match. A strong metric is a starting point for deeper review, not a personal relocation recommendation.