Looking For a Safe Second Home? Find a City With Immigrants
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All the squawking in this country about illegal immigration, I thought this might help influence your first, second and third home purchases: the safest cities in the U.S. have higher immigrant populations — and better ethnic food, all of which is very important when considering a second home purchase!
CQ Report Press, now owned by SAGE Publications, an independent publishing house founded by the publisher of the St. Petersburg (FLA) Times, Nelson Poynter, after whom The Poynter Institute, a journalistic think tank, is named, compiles the list. That the late Nelson Poynter started the Congressional Quarterly in 1945 gives me security as to the validity of the research. According to CQ’s research, these are the safest cities in the USA — and our own Fort Worth/Cow Town is one of them:
| CITY | FOREIGN BORN POPULATION |
| El Paso | 26.1 % |
| Honolulu | 25.3 % |
| New York | 35.9 % |
| San Jose | 40.5 % |
| San Diego | 25.7 % |
| Austin | 16.6 % |
| Portland | 13.0 % |
| Los Angeles | 40.9 % |
| Seattle | 16.9 % |
| Fort Worth | 16.3 % |
Here are the highest crime cities in the US and the only one with high crime and a higher foreign-born population appears to be Houston.
| CITY | FOREIGN BORN POPULATION |
| Detroit | 4.8 % |
| Baltimore | 4.6 % |
| Memphis | 4.0 % |
| Washington, DC | 12.6 % |
| Atlanta | 8.7 % |
| Indianapolis | 4.6 % |
| Philadelphia | 9.0 % |
| Milwaukee | 7.7 % |
| Houston | 26.4 % |
| Columbus | 6.7 % |
I wonder why Houston has higher crime than the other cities? This was not brought up much during the recent race for Texas governor, in which incumbent Rick Perry defeated Bill White, whom Houstonians love. If you have any ideas or thoughts, chime in.
