Augusta, Georgia
Salt Lake City, Utah
Columbia, South Carolina
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Portland, Oregon
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Washington, D.C.
Spokane, Washington
Greenville, South Carolina
Rochester, New York
Ogden, Utah
Jacksonville, Florida
Seattle, Washington
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sacramento, California
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Lakeland, Florida
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Denver, Colorado
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Tucson, Arizona
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charlotte, North Carolina
Honolulu, Hawaii
Fort Myers, Florida
We felt that informal volunteering (i.e. doing favors for neighbors) captured the spirit of being neighborly better than the other data points included, so that data was weighted more than the others. Here’s how everything was weighted:
Informal volunteering: 3
Charitable giving: 1.5
Community well-being: 1.5
Formal volunteering: 1
Carpooling: 1
https://www.neighbor.com/storage-blog/most-neighborly-cities-america/#infographic
Although Seattle and Portland do very well, I've heard the people aren't as "friendly". I do find people in Texas more casual as compared to people in Wisconsin. (More likely to strike up a conversation etc). However, I would rather live in Wisconsin than Texas. I would rather live in Madison, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis than San Antonio. The survey rates volunteering and charitable giving fairly high and it deducts points for crime rates and additional points for hate crimes. So, I get the impression that superficial friendliness is not much of a factor.
For 2022 this was the criteria:
Volunteering: 3
Neighborly acts: 3
Charitable giving: 3
Nonprofits per capita: 2
Happiness: 1
Resident proximity to local parks: 1
Crime rate: -2
Incidence of hate crimes: -2
https://www.neighbor.com/storage-blog/most-neighborly-cities-2022/
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