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This article was in The Baltimore Sun this morning. Great news for us and something we already felt living here!

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Report: Locust Point is safest large neighborhood in Baltimore

A crime analysis for a consumer-finance website dubs Locust Point the safest

large neighborhood in Baltimore, with residents less likely to be victims of

violence or serious property crimes than people living in most other parts

of the country.

"As it turns out, some big cities contain neighborhoods that are among the

safest of any place in the nation, hopefully breaking stereotypes," WalletPop,

the website, says in its announcement of the findings.

Locust Point, a neighborhood with deep blue-collar roots, has a location

alongside Baltimore's waterfront that has brought it high-end residential

development in recent years.

WalletPop, which relied on NeighborhoodScout for the data and analysis,

says it ranked the safest neighborhood of at least 1,000 people in each of

the nation's largest cities. Those neighborhoods tended to be either wealthy

or "more modest income neighborhoods with many tightly-knit working class

families."

The chances of becoming a crime victim in a year of living in Locust Point are

1 in 84, better odds than in 70 percent of U.S. neighborhoods, WalletPop said.

The site says it saw similar themes across the country:

"Surprisingly, many of the neighborhoods [NeighborhoodScout] discovered

are substantially safer than neighborhoods in the suburbs. Some of these

same cities are also home to the most dangerous neighborhoods in America,

underscoring the importance of looking at neighborhoods, and not passing

judgment on entire cities. For safety, it really is all about your location, not just

your city or your zip code."