West Linn has been rated as the second-safest city in Oregon, trailing only Baker City, in a new study by the home-security company SafeWise.

Sherwood ranked fifth and Wilsonville took the seventh spot. Beaverton was 11th and Lake Oswego was 12th, followed by Canby at 13th.

To make the list, each city had to have a population of at least 2,500 residents and every element of crime data had to have been reported on the FBI Crime Report for 2012, according to the SafeWise website.

The top 30, in order:

1. Baker City

2. West Linn

3. Jacksonville

4. Philomath

5. Sherwood

6. Hubbard

7. Wilsonville

8. Silverton

9. Newberg-Dundee

10. Umatilla

11. Beaverton

12. Lake Oswego

13. Canby

14. Monmouth

15. King City

16. Junction City

17. Gervais

18. Scappoose

19. Keizer

20. Hillsboro

21. Warrenton

22. Boardman

23. Mount Angel

24. Corvallis

25. Milwaukie

26. Aumsville

27. Dallas

28. Independence

29. Oregon City

30. Phoenix

Details of the study are available on the SafeWise website.

-- Rick Bella