It’s good to be number one normally, but in this case absolutely not. The most dangerous town in America with less than 15,000 people living there is in Illinois. I saw this brand new ranking just shared on YouTube by World According To Briggs. This is a major channel with more than 1.23 million subscribers. They crunched numbers to look at what amounts to the most dangerous small town in America which means those places with 15,000 or less residents.