Top Cities for Credit Fraud Alerts

LendingTree® is out Wednesday with a study on where people are most likely to have asked a credit bureau to place a fraud alert on their credit report.

Key findings of the study:

• The average rate of fraud alert requests among all cities reviewed is 6.4%.
• Las Vegas and Houston tie for the highest rate of fraud alerts, at 13.6%.
• Miami and New York are close behind, tied at 12.9%.
• Rochester, N.Y. has the lowest rate of people requesting fraud alerts at 2%. Nearby Buffalo, N.Y. has 2.6%.

Big cities lead the pack
1 (tie) – Las Vegas
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 13.6%

1 (tie) – Houston
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 13.6%

3 (tie) – Miami
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 12.9%

3 (tie) – New York
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 12.9%

5 – San Jose, Calif.
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 11.8%

Rust Belt and Missouri cities have the fewest alerts

50 – Rochester, N.Y.
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 2%

49 – Buffalo, N.Y.
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 2.6%

47 (tie) – St. Louis
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 2.8%

47 (tie) – Pittsburgh
My LendingTree users with fraud alerts: 2.8%

With millions of Americans affected by data breaches every year, such as recent revelations at Uber and Equifax, LendingTree decided to look at anonymized data from a sample of the over 7 million My LendingTree users to see where people are most likely to have asked a credit bureau to place a fraud alert on their credit report. My LendingTree, available online and at app stores, offers free credit monitoring that includes alerts within 30 minutes of activity on your credit report.