Travelers searching for America's safest cities may want to head to New England this holiday season.

The experts at WalletHub recently compared more than 180 cities across the U.S., analyzing more than 40 key indicators of safety, such as traffic fatalities and assaults per capita, unemployment rate, natural disaster risk level and the percentage of the population that's uninsured to determine which locales are the safest to visit in 2024.

Vermont was the big winner, with South Burlington and Burlington ranking first and fourth, respectively. Meanwhile, Warwick, R.I. ranks third, with Portland, Maine also making the top 10 at number nine.

South Burlington ranks first for financial security, a category that accounts for 20 of the 100 points and considers a variety of factors like poverty rate, unemployment, job security and retirement plan access, among other things.