Ranking The Best And Worst Drivers In America

Since 2005, Allstate has been tracking drivers all across the United States to create what it calls America’s Best Drivers Report.

The Allstate America's Best Drivers Report for 2025 examined America’s 200 most populous cities to determine how often drivers in those locations will experience a collision. According to the Best Drivers Report, the average driver in the U.S will experience a collision once every 10.56 years. It turns out drivers in some areas are much more prone to accidents than others.

According to Allstate, which apparently represents approximately 10% of all auto insurance policies in the United States, seven out of the top 10 riskiest cities in America last year were on the East Coast. Those coastal cities include Boston (which came in 200th out of 200 cities ranked this year), Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia. If you live on the other side of the country, drivers in Los Angeles, Glendale and Oakland, California also made the list of the top 10 cities with the most collisions.

Interestingly, the center of the United States seems to have safer drivers than the coasts. Brownsville, Texas, earned the title of the safest driving city in America in 2025, with the average driver going 14.24 years between collisions. That makes Brownsville drivers nearly 26% less likely to have a collision this year than the national average. Other major Texas metros such as Austin, Fort Worth, Houston and Dallas, have improved their rankings over the past decade as well.

The most-improved city since 2015 is Bellevue, Washington. The Seattle-area location has climbed 133 spots in the last decade. Washington, in general, is safer in 2025 than it was a decade ago, as are Oregon and Alaska. Nice work, Pacific Northwesterners.

Last year’s safest city was Kansas City, Kansas. Unfortunately, drivers in that city fell 43 spots on the 2025 chart, with drivers going an average of 10.55 years between collisions. That’s not great, but it’s better than Kansas City, Missouri (remember, the city confusingly stretches across two states), which fell 84 spots to land in 101st place.

Other Midwestern cities that dropped this year include St. Louis, which saw the steepest drop after falling 90 spots to number 175. As bad as it sounds for drivers in St. Louis, it could be worse. According to Allstate, drivers in Boston only average a little more than three years in between collisions.

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