Denver-Aurora makes top 10 for safety

Forbes.com recently named Denver-Aurora 10th on its list of America’s 10 Safest Cities.

The magazine compared the country’s 40 biggest metropolitan statistical areas across four categories of danger – violent crime rates according to the 2008 FBI uniform crime report; workplace death rates in 2008 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; traffic death rates in 2008 from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and natural disaster risk, using rankings from green-living site SustainLane.com.
Denver-Aurora, population 2.5 million, tied with Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio, for 10th place with a total score of 59.

Here’s a look of the top 10 and how they scored in the different safety-factor categories: