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The safety composite measures the safety of an area based on factors like the ratio of police officers to crime incidents, with a score ranging from 0 to 100, where a lower score indicates better safety. This composite is derived from federal sources such as the FBI's Law Enforcement Enterprise Analytics and is weighted at 10% in the overall safety evaluation. For more details on the methodology, you can visit the provided link.
Why: The user is asking how the safety composite is calculated, which fits the methodology question intent.
Methodology — catalog matches
Topic: "safety composite"
safety.safety_roi_officers_crime · city
Safety
weight 10%
Source: FBI LEE + NIBRS (2024)FHA-safeROI
user.composite_weights · user
User
weight 0%
Source: User input via priority sliders (2026)FHA-safe
Per-composite weight in the user-controlled match.
Data sources
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"metric_id": "safety.safety_roi_officers_crime",
"level": "city",
"composite": "Safety",
"factor_name": "Safety ROI (officers/crime)",
"federal_source": "FBI LEE + NIBRS",
"weight_pct": 10,
"source_year": "2024",
"fha_safe": true,
"is_roi": true,
"notes": null,
"direction": "lower_better",
"unit": "score_0_100"
},
{
"metric_id": "user.composite_weights",
"level": "user",
"composite": "User",
"factor_name": "Composite Weights",
"federal_source": "User input via priority sliders",
"weight_pct": 0,
"source_year": "2026",
"fha_safe": true,
"is_roi": false,
"notes": "Per-composite weight in the user-controlled match.",
"direction": "optimize",
"unit": null
}
],
"anchor_url": "/trust/methodology"
}