Loading...
Loading...
How residents rate parks, air quality, green space, and the natural surroundings of their cities.
Air and water quality, tree cover, access to parks and trails, noise levels, and how close the city sits to open country, coast or mountains. Residents also factor in things a dataset misses — whether the river is actually swimmable, whether the park is one you'd walk through after dark, whether summer smog makes running outside unpleasant.
Environment is the aspect people most often underestimate before moving and most often cite afterwards. Air quality and daily access to green space affect health and mood in ways that compound over years, and unlike rent or commute, they're almost impossible to change once you've chosen a city.
Every score comes from residents rating the place they live, not from an index we calculated. People score environment & outdoors from 0 to 10 alongside nine other life aspects, and write about what works and what doesn't. Each review is read by a person before it appears.
Cities are ranked on the mean of their environment scores. Any city with at least one approved review is eligible, which means a highly-rated city with two reviews can currently outrank a well-known one with five — worth keeping in mind when reading the table above.
We're early. The rankings get more reliable with every review, so if you know one of these cities, add your own.