{"id":106934,"date":"2023-12-14T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/?p=106934"},"modified":"2023-12-14T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:33:26","slug":"year-in-review-top-cities-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/year-in-review-top-cities-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Review: 2023&#8217;s Top-Ranking Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a busy 2023 for us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/\">LawnStarter<\/a> and our sibling brands at Home Gnome. We cranked out <strong>70 rankings<\/strong> of U.S. cities, and some cities really outshined the competition.<\/p>    <p>Below, you\u2019ll find our 2023 chart toppers \u2014 broken down by number of top-10 rankings and average rank, for example.<\/p>    <p>Of course, we all have room to grow, so we spotlighted our best performers\u2019 top areas of improvement, too.<\/p>    <p>Scroll down to see America\u2019s greatest cities \u2014 at least according to us. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents<\/h3>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"#overall-rankings\">Cities With Top-10 Rankings<\/a><\/li>    <li><a href=\"#top-10-rankings\">Top 10 Cities by Number of Top-10 Rankings<\/a><\/li>    <li><a href=\"#average-rank\">Top 10 Cities by Average Rank<\/a><\/li>    <li><a href=\"#most-first-place-rankings\">Best of the Best: Cities With the Most No. 1 Rankings<\/a><\/li>    <li><a href=\"#top-10-worst-rankings\">Top 10 Cities\u2019 Worst Rankings<\/a><\/li> <\/ul>   <h2 id=\"overall-rankings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h2>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cities With Top-10 Rankings<\/h2>    <p>Among the 500 biggest U.S. cities, <strong>141 cities<\/strong> ranked in the <strong>top 10<\/strong> of our rankings <strong>at least once<\/strong>.<\/p>    <p>The table below (followed by a map) details how each city fared across all 70 LawnStarter and Home Gnome city rankings. We ranked the cities on 3 weighted factors:<\/p>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>The total number of times each city placed in the top 10 <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Weight: 3<\/li> <\/ul> <\/li>    <li>The total number of times each city placed 1st <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Weight: 2<\/li> <\/ul> <\/li>    <li>Each city\u2019s average position across all rankings in which it placed in the top 10 <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Weight: 1<\/li> <\/ul> <\/li> <\/ul>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"b2e47ec6-ed3b-4cb7-8332-0f4567a4dc67\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"Ranking Table - Best Cities of 2023 LawnStarter and Home Gnome Rankings\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"aacdecdb-bbef-4bc3-bcf7-205388565ae0\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"LS: Cities With the Most Top-10 Rankings\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>   <h2 id=\"top-10-rankings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h2>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top 10 Cities by Number of Top-10 Rankings<\/h2>    <p>These 10 cities dominated our leaderboard most frequently:<\/p>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"26a40cc2-b744-4756-9eb4-50aadb65e83c\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"LS: Top 10 Cities by Number of Top-10 Rankings\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honorable Mentions<\/h3>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"dd478a3b-e055-4060-8ad7-86ebf2b5b217\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"LS: Honorable Mentions\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"average-rank\"><\/h2>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top 10 Cities by Average Rank<\/h2>    <p>Among the cities that <strong>ranked<\/strong> in the <strong>top 10<\/strong> of our studies <strong>at least 10 times<\/strong>, these cities stood out:<\/p>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"e31018fe-7c7d-4125-8eac-37b6bcaa064e\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"LS: Top 10 Cities by Average Rank\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honorable Mentions<\/h3>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"7b745e64-7040-45c6-bd97-e4c148af51f6\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"LS: Honorable Mention 2\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"most-first-place-rankings\"><\/h2>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best of the Best: Cities With the Most No. 1 Rankings<\/h2>    <p>Big kudos to the Big Apple! <strong>New York <\/strong>took the <strong>top spot<\/strong> in our rankings <strong>most frequently<\/strong>, landing in <strong>1st place <\/strong>a total of<strong> 27 times<\/strong>.<\/p>    <p>Scroll down below for other top cities and their biggest strengths.<\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Blue-Sky-1-1.png\" alt=\"The Statue of Liberty waves an orange foam finger with a \u201c#1\u201d to indicate its dominance in LawnStarter and Home Gnome city rankings.\" class=\"wp-image-106942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Blue-Sky-1-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Blue-Sky-1-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Blue-Sky-1-1-646x430.png 646w, https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Blue-Sky-1-1-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Blue-Sky-1-1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>    <p>These cities ranked <strong>No. 1<\/strong> the <strong>most times<\/strong>:<\/p>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"0cb64506-d62f-4018-830e-f7badf21ecd4\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"LS: Cities With the Most No. 1 Rankings\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honorable Mentions<\/h3>    <p>All of these cities <strong>tied<\/strong> for <strong>6th place<\/strong>, each <strong>taking the crown once<\/strong> (in order of state):<\/p>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Scottsdale, AZ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-for-golfers\/\">Best City for Golfers<\/a><\/li>    <li>San Diego, CA: <a href=\"https:\/\/roofgnome.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-electric-car-owners\/\">Best City to Own an Electric Car<\/a><\/li>    <li>Sunnyvale, CA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/most-relaxed-cities\/\">Most Relaxed City<\/a><\/li>    <li>Colorado Springs, CO: <a href=\"https:\/\/poolgnome.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-hot-tub-lovers\/\">Best City for Hot Tub Lovers<\/a><\/li>    <li>Miami Beach, FL: <a href=\"https:\/\/roofgnome.com\/blog\/studies\/best-vacation-spots-rooftop-swimming-pool\/\">Best Vacation Spot for Rooftop Swimming<\/a><\/li>    <li>Fort Myers, FL: <a href=\"https:\/\/poolgnome.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-backyard-swimming-pool\/\">Best City to Own a Swimming Pool<\/a><\/li>    <li>Honolulu, HI: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/cities-with-best-residential-views\/\">City With the Best Residential Views<\/a><\/li>    <li>Boise, ID: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-dog-park-cities\/\">Best Dog Park City<\/a><\/li>    <li>New Orleans, LA: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/best-cities-mardi-gras\/\">Top Mardi Gras City<\/a><\/li>    <li>Kansas City, MO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-bbq-cities\/\">Best BBQ City in America<\/a><\/li>    <li>Durham, NC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-to-own-vacation-home\/\">Best City to Own a Vacation Rental<\/a><\/li>    <li>Philadelphia, PA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-world-naked-bike-ride\/\">Best City for Naked Biking<\/a><\/li>    <li>Charleston, SC: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/best-cities-outdoor-weddings\/\">Best City for Outdoor Weddings<\/a><\/li>    <li>Alexandria, VA: <a href=\"https:\/\/fencegnome.com\/blog\/studies\/most-vulnerable-cities-burglars\/\">Safest City from Burglaries<\/a><\/li>    <li>Richmond, VA: <a href=\"https:\/\/myguttergnome.com\/blog\/studies\/safest-cities-natural-disasters\/\">Safest City from Natural Disasters<\/a><\/li>    <li>Chesapeake, VA: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/blog\/cities-with-most-green-space\/\">City With the Most Green Space<\/a><\/li>    <li>Bellevue, WA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-single-dads\/\">Best City for Single Dads to Live<\/a><\/li> <\/ul>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"top-10-worst-rankings\"><\/h2>   <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top 10 Cities\u2019 Worst Rankings<\/h2>    <p>At LawnStarter and Home Gnome, we\u2019re all about improving your living environment, so we\u2019ve rounded up the areas where our top 10 cities need to clean up their act a bit.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p>In the table below, you\u2019ll find each of our 10 best performers\u2019 worst rankings, followed by surprising insights.<\/p>   <div class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"76a74f9d-8f47-422f-a5c7-8278800acfe8\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"Copy: LS: Cities With the Most No. 1 Rankings\"><\/div> <p><script>!function(e,n,i,s){var d=\"InfogramEmbeds\";var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)[0];if(window[d]&&window[d].initialized)window[d].process&&window[d].process();else if(!e.getElementById(i)){var r=e.createElement(n);r.async=1,r.id=i,r.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,\"script\",\"infogram-async\",\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/js\/dist\/embed-loader-min.js\");<\/script><\/p>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surprising Findings<\/h3>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Except for San Diego, <strong>every city<\/strong> in our <strong>top 10<\/strong> also ranked among the <strong>50% <a href=\"https:\/\/pestgnome.com\/blog\/studies\/most-vulnerable-cities-rat-infestation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Most Vulnerable Cities for Rat Infestation<\/a><\/strong>. What\u2019s more, <strong>six<\/strong> of them are <strong>among the 10 most at risk<\/strong> overall, including <strong>New York<\/strong> at <strong>No. 1<\/strong>.<br><\/li>    <li>Among our <strong>10 best performers<\/strong>, <strong>six ranked<\/strong> in the <strong>5 worst spots<\/strong> of our rankings. However, <strong>Houston<\/strong> was the only one to place <strong>bottom-5 in more than one ranking<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/dirtiest-cities-in-united-states\/\">Dirtiest Cities in America<\/a> (No. 1) and <a href=\"https:\/\/pestgnome.com\/blog\/studies\/most-vulnerable-cities-rat-infestation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Most Vulnerable Cities for Rat Infestation<\/a> (No. 5).<br><\/li>    <li><strong>Only Portland, Oregon, and San Diego avoided<\/strong> placing among the <strong>worst 10<\/strong> of any ranking \u2014 but only narrowly for <strong>San Diego<\/strong>, which finished as the <strong>No. 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-to-own-vacation-home\/\">Worst City to Own a Vacation Rental<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li> <\/ul>    <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong>Three<\/strong> of our <strong>top 10 cities<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>Houston, Miami, and Las Vegas<\/strong> \u2014 ranked <strong>low<\/strong> in <strong>both parenting studies<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-new-moms\/\">Best Cities for New Moms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/studies\/best-cities-single-dads\/\">Best Cities for Single Dads<\/a>. Interestingly, no top-10 city ranked low in only one parenting study despite big differences in their methodologies.<\/li> <\/ul>    <p>No matter their flaws, our top cities are still the ones to emulate, and every new year is a chance to do better.<\/p>    <p>Congrats to all of our top cities, and here\u2019s to a prosperous 2024!<\/p>    <p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Main Photo Credit: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/photos\/MADBYHGEqbU-enthusiastic-motivated-woman-giving-a-thumbs-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mheim3011<\/a> (overlaid with text) \/ Canva Pro \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/policies\/content-license-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canva License<\/a><\/p>    <p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Secondary Photo Credit: <\/strong>Statue of Liberty: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/photos\/MAETGfKQ3iM-statue-of-liberty-in-close-up-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gu Bra from Pexels<\/a> (background removed and torch cropped), Foam Finger: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/photos\/MADAWzimmKE-orange-foam-spirit-finger-keepsake-on-a-white-background\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">miflippo<\/a> (\u201c#\u201d and \u201c1\u201d text overlaid on finger), Blue Sky: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/photos\/MADd8OlflHA-cloudless-blue-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TITUS GROUP<\/a> (overlaid with Statue of Liberty and foam finger images) \/ Canva Pro \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/policies\/content-license-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canva License<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out which cities outranked the competition in 2023 rankings by LawnStarter and Home Gnome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":106959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[853],"tags":[1472],"class_list":["post-106934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies","tag-studies"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Two-Thumbs-Up-1.png?wsr","author_info":{"display_name":"Editorial Team","author_link":"https:\/\/www.lawnstarter.com\/blog\/author\/editorial-team\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Year in Review: 2023&#039;s Top-Ranking Cities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you live in one of America&#039;s best cities? 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