Valenzuela, Makati Among Safest Cities In SEA

A new report released by a collaborative online database has ranked two highly urbanized cities in Metro Manila as among the top 10 safest cities in Southeast Asia.

Numbeo, a crowd-sourced global database of reported perceived crime rates among a host of other statistical data, has included Valenzuela City and Makati City in the list of those with the lowest crime and highest safety indexes. These are the top 10 safest cities, according to Numbeo:

Rank               City                                         Crime Index               Safety Index

1                      Singapore, Singapore                         16.23                           83.77

2                      Valenzuela, Philippines                    25.21                           74.79

3                      Chiang Mai, Thailand                       28.71                           71.29

4                      Davao, Philippines                            28.79                           71.21

5                      Makati, Philippines                           39.56                           60.44

6                      Baguio, Philippines                           40.57                           59.43

7                      Bali, Indonesia                                   42.46                          57.54

8                      Cebu, Philippines                              44.28                          55.72

9                      Penang, Malaysia                              45.00                          55.00

10                   Bangkok, Thailand                             47.06                          52.94

Numbeo said the data is based on surveys from visitors to their website (www.numbeo.com). Questions for these surveys are similar to many similar scientific and government surveys, it said.

“The crime index is an estimation of overall level of crime in a given city or country. Safety index on the other hand, is quite opposite of crime index. If the city has a high safety index, it is considered very safe,” it explained.

“To generate a current index (which is always updated) we use data up to 36 months old. We include only cities for which there are at least a certain number of contributors. Our semiannual index is remade twice per year by pushing current index into this historical view,” Numbeo said, adding that they also filter surveys to eliminate potential spam, like people entering a large amount of data, which are differentiating from the median value.

Numbeo’s reports were either mentioned or used as a source in some major publications around the world, including Forbes, Business Insider, Time, The Economist, BBC, The New York Times, China Daily, and The Telegraph., among others. (EPC/JCP/PIA-NCR)