America's safest city, Brick Township, NJ: Key stat: 55.9 incidents of crime per 100,000 residents.This small city near the Jersey shore recorded the lowest rate of violent crime of any town of 75,000 residents or more, according to Morgan Quitno Press, an independent research publisher in Lawrence, Kansas, which used FBI statistics in its analysis. Dec. 01, 2006: Minnesota was deemed the healthiest U.S. state for the fourth year in a row. States making the most improvement in the past year were Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas, the report found, while those with the biggest declines were New Mexico, Idaho and West Virginia.