Leaderboard
Best cities for sports
Every city in the CityFunIndex, ranked by its Sports score. Pro and college teams and the game-day energy around them.
- Cities ranked
- 134
- Top score
- 93
- Average
- 49
Pillar scores are national percentile ranks on a saturation curve, so the leader of every category lands near the same ceiling — the ranks beneath are still distinct. See how scoring works →
Jackson (93) leads, ahead of Asheville (92) and Charleston (92). North Las Vegas anchors the bottom at 0 — a 93-point gap.
Regional read The top 10 spans 9 different states — no single state dominates this board.
All 134 cities, coloured by sports score band. The top-ranked cities draw larger.
- Quiet
- Some Fun
- Fun
- Very Fun
- Exceptional
Score spread across all 134 cities
- Quiet 40
- Some Fun 22
- Fun 31
- Very Fun 21
- Exceptional 20
Ranked 5–134
- T#5 91 Richmond, VA
- T#5 91 Des Moines, IA
- T#5 91 Manchester, NH
- T#8 90 Durham, NC
- T#8 90 Atlanta, GA
- T#10 89 Cincinnati, OH
- T#10 89 Greensboro, NC
- T#10 89 Fargo, ND
- T#13 88 Washington, DC
- T#13 88 Tulsa, OK
- T#15 87 Lincoln, NE
- T#15 87 Seattle, WA
- T#15 87 Pittsburgh, PA
- T#18 86 Spokane, WA
- T#18 86 Minneapolis, MN
- #20 85 Birmingham, AL
- T#21 84 Reno, NV
- T#21 84 Toledo, OH
- T#23 83 Lexington, KY
- T#23 83 Tampa, FL
- #25 82 Louisville, KY
- #26 81 Wilmington, DE
- T#27 80 Denver, CO
- T#27 80 San Francisco, CA
- #29 79 Charleston, WV
- #30 78 Savannah, GA
- T#31 77 Sioux Falls, SD
- T#31 77 Saint Paul, MN
- #33 76 Kansas City, MO
- #34 75 Portland, OR
- T#35 74 Hartford, CT
- T#35 74 Houston, TX
- #37 73 Fort Wayne, IN
- #38 72 Norfolk, VA
- T#39 71 Buffalo, NY
- T#39 71 Albuquerque, NM
- #41 70 Omaha, NE
- #42 69 Boise, ID
- T#43 68 Columbus, OH
- T#43 68 Corpus Christi, TX
- T#45 67 Boston, MA
- T#45 67 Milwaukee, WI
- #47 65 Arlington, TX
- T#48 64 Boulder, CO
- T#48 64 Las Vegas, NV
- #50 63 Anaheim, CA
- T#51 62 Colorado Springs, CO
- T#51 62 Baltimore, MD
- #53 61 Honolulu, HI
- #54 60 Charlotte, NC
- T#55 59 Irvine, CA
- T#55 59 Nashville, TN
- #57 58 Montgomery, AL
- #58 57 Indianapolis, IN
- T#59 56 Chicago, IL
- T#59 56 San Jose, CA
- #61 55 Cleveland, OH
- #62 54 San Diego, CA
- T#63 50 Chesapeake, VA
- T#63 50 Fremont, CA
- T#63 50 Gatlinburg, TN
- T#63 50 Hialeah, FL
- T#63 50 Hilton Head Island, SC
- T#63 50 Plano, TX
- T#63 50 Santa Clarita, CA
- T#63 50 Sedona, AZ
- T#63 50 Stowe, VT
- T#63 50 Winston-Salem, NC
- T#73 45 Park City, UT
- T#73 45 Wichita, KS
- T#75 44 Telluride, CO
- T#75 44 Bend, OR
- #77 43 Santa Fe, NM
- #78 42 Oakland, CA
- #79 41 Miami, FL
- T#80 40 Oklahoma City, OK
- T#80 40 Raleigh, NC
- #82 39 Key West, FL
- T#83 38 Scottsdale, AZ
- T#83 38 Aspen, CO
- #85 37 Orlando, FL
- #86 36 Austin, TX
- T#87 35 Baton Rouge, LA
- T#87 35 Stockton, CA
- #89 34 Phoenix, AZ
- #90 33 Burlington, VT
- T#91 32 Chandler, AZ
- T#91 32 Fresno, CA
- #93 31 Madison, WI
- #94 30 Lubbock, TX
- T#95 29 El Paso, TX
- T#95 29 Gilbert, AZ
- #97 28 St. Petersburg, FL
- #98 27 Santa Barbara, CA
- T#99 26 Billings, MT
- T#99 26 Detroit, MI
- #101 25 Jacksonville, FL
- #102 24 Glendale, AZ
- T#103 23 Philadelphia, PA
- T#103 23 Mesa, AZ
- #105 22 Los Angeles, CA
- #106 21 San Antonio, TX
- T#107 20 Little Rock, AR
- T#107 20 Memphis, TN
- #109 19 New Orleans, LA
- #110 18 Tucson, AZ
- T#111 17 Providence, RI
- T#111 17 Sacramento, CA
- #113 16 St. Louis, MO
- #114 15 Napa, CA
- T#115 14 Fort Worth, TX
- T#115 14 Dallas, TX
- #117 13 Laredo, TX
- #118 12 Aurora, CO
- T#119 11 Anchorage, AK
- T#119 11 Jackson, MS
- #121 10 New York, NY
- #122 9 Virginia Beach, VA
- T#123 8 Henderson, NV
- T#123 8 Newark, NJ
- #125 7 Bismarck, ND
- #126 6 Long Beach, CA
- T#127 5 Garland, TX
- T#127 5 Bakersfield, CA
- #129 4 Riverside, CA
- #130 3 Irving, TX
- T#131 2 Jersey City, NJ
- T#131 2 Bridgeport, CT
- #133 1 Santa Ana, CA
- #134 0 North Las Vegas, NV
9 of 134 cities have no sports measurement, so they sit at the median (50) as a placeholder — flagged above and not a measured rank. The composite Fun Score renormalises around the gap, so it is unaffected.
Sports is measured from Ticketmaster and SeatGeek pro and college games, plus OpenStreetMap stadiums, sports centres and fitness centres.