CityFunIndex

Leaderboard

Best cities for transit quality

Every city in the CityFunIndex, ranked by its Transit Quality score. How well a person without a car can move around the city.

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 →

New York (93) leads, ahead of Jersey City (92) and Boston (92). Telluride and 2 other cities sit at the bottom with 1 — a 92-point gap.

Regional read The top 10 spans 8 different states — no single state dominates this board.

All 134 cities, coloured by transit quality 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 26
  • Fun 27
  • Very Fun 21
  • Exceptional 20
  1. 1st 93 New York, NY Fun Score 54
  2. T-2nd 92 Jersey City, NJ Fun Score 43
  3. T-2nd 92 Boston, MA Fun Score 98
  4. T-2nd 92 Washington, DC Fun Score 93

Ranked 5–134

  1. T#5 91 Newark, NJ Fun Score 36
  2. T#5 91 San Francisco, CA Fun Score 96
  3. T#5 91 Chicago, IL Fun Score 56
  4. T#8 90 Philadelphia, PA Fun Score 45
  5. T#8 90 Hartford, CT Fun Score 64
  6. T#8 90 Oakland, CA Fun Score 61
  7. T#11 89 Seattle, WA Fun Score 100
  8. T#11 89 Pittsburgh, PA Fun Score 94
  9. T#13 88 Baltimore, MD Fun Score 76
  10. T#13 88 Aspen, CO Fun Score 67
  11. T#13 88 Buffalo, NY Fun Score 77
  12. T#16 87 Wilmington, DE Fun Score 50
  13. T#16 87 Honolulu, HI Fun Score 86
  14. T#18 86 Miami, FL Fun Score 55
  15. T#18 86 Bridgeport, CT Fun Score 41
  16. #20 85 Minneapolis, MN Fun Score 84
  17. T#21 84 Cleveland, OH Fun Score 77
  18. T#21 84 Los Angeles, CA Fun Score 38
  19. T#23 83 Portland, OR Fun Score 81
  20. T#23 83 Atlanta, GA Fun Score 88
  21. #25 82 St. Louis, MO Fun Score 65
  22. #26 81 Saint Paul, MN Fun Score 64
  23. T#27 80 Cincinnati, OH Fun Score 92
  24. T#27 80 Jackson, WY Fun Score 87
  25. #29 79 Burlington, VT Fun Score 73
  26. #30 78 Madison, WI Fun Score 97
  27. T#31 77 Boulder, CO Fun Score 77
  28. T#31 77 Milwaukee, WI Fun Score 70
  29. #33 76 Detroit, MI Fun Score 45
  30. #34 75 New Orleans, LA Fun Score 64
  31. T#35 74 Providence, RI Fun Score 78
  32. T#35 74 Long Beach, CA Fun Score 31
  33. #37 73 Fremont, CA Fun Score 54
  34. #38 72 Denver, CO Fun Score 82
  35. T#39 71 Park City, UT Fun Score 74
  36. T#39 71 Aurora, CO Fun Score 37
  37. #41 70 Houston, TX Fun Score 41
  38. #42 69 Richmond, VA Fun Score 91
  39. T#43 68 Spokane, WA Fun Score 63
  40. T#43 68 Santa Ana, CA Fun Score 32
  41. #45 67 San Diego, CA Fun Score 74
  42. #46 66 Portland, ME Fun Score 100
  43. T#47 65 Norfolk, VA Fun Score 56
  44. T#47 65 Las Vegas, NV Fun Score 35
  45. #49 64 San Jose, CA Fun Score 62
  46. #50 63 Tucson, AZ Fun Score 47
  47. T#51 62 Reno, NV Fun Score 66
  48. T#51 62 Savannah, GA Fun Score 75
  49. #53 61 Dallas, TX Fun Score 38
  50. #54 60 San Antonio, TX Fun Score 22
  51. T#55 59 Austin, TX Fun Score 67
  52. T#55 59 Santa Barbara, CA Fun Score 83
  53. #57 58 Columbus, OH Fun Score 60
  54. #58 57 Charlotte, NC Fun Score 54
  55. T#59 56 Orlando, FL Fun Score 65
  56. T#59 56 Phoenix, AZ Fun Score 40
  57. #61 55 Durham, NC Fun Score 64
  58. #62 54 Kansas City, MO Fun Score 65
  59. T#63 53 Sacramento, CA Fun Score 54
  60. T#63 53 Anaheim, CA Fun Score 41
  61. #65 52 Greensboro, NC Fun Score 59
  62. #66 51 North Las Vegas, NV Fun Score 4
  63. T#67 50 Billings, MT Placeholder
  64. T#67 50 Louisville, KY Placeholder
  65. #69 49 Santa Clarita, CA Fun Score 30
  66. #70 48 St. Petersburg, FL Fun Score 46
  67. T#71 47 Lexington, KY Fun Score 69
  68. T#71 47 Nashville, TN Fun Score 60
  69. #73 46 Anchorage, AK Fun Score 36
  70. #74 45 Riverside, CA Fun Score 21
  71. T#75 44 Baton Rouge, LA Fun Score 28
  72. T#75 44 Raleigh, NC Fun Score 64
  73. #77 43 Indianapolis, IN Fun Score 48
  74. #78 42 Glendale, AZ Fun Score 10
  75. T#79 41 Asheville, NC Fun Score 85
  76. T#79 41 Tampa, FL Fun Score 70
  77. #81 40 Birmingham, AL Fun Score 58
  78. #82 39 Fresno, CA Fun Score 23
  79. T#83 38 Corpus Christi, TX Fun Score 20
  80. T#83 38 Hialeah, FL Fun Score 18
  81. #85 37 Irvine, CA Fun Score 57
  82. #86 36 Santa Fe, NM Fun Score 63
  83. T#87 35 Toledo, OH Fun Score 45
  84. T#87 35 Winston-Salem, NC Fun Score 32
  85. #89 34 Omaha, NE Fun Score 68
  86. #90 33 Irving, TX Fun Score 20
  87. T#91 32 Charleston, WV Fun Score 61
  88. T#91 32 Jacksonville, FL Fun Score 19
  89. #93 31 Fort Wayne, IN Fun Score 49
  90. #94 30 Stockton, CA Fun Score 2
  91. T#95 29 Garland, TX Fun Score 0
  92. T#95 29 El Paso, TX Fun Score 21
  93. #97 28 Albuquerque, NM Fun Score 41
  94. #98 27 Little Rock, AR Fun Score 47
  95. T#99 26 Lincoln, NE Fun Score 74
  96. T#99 26 Des Moines, IA Fun Score 74
  97. #101 25 Virginia Beach, VA Fun Score 49
  98. #102 24 Memphis, TN Fun Score 14
  99. T#103 23 Wichita, KS Fun Score 15
  100. T#103 23 Napa, CA Fun Score 52
  101. #105 22 Charleston, SC Fun Score 87
  102. #106 21 Laredo, TX Fun Score 10
  103. T#107 20 Mesa, AZ Fun Score 36
  104. T#107 20 Lubbock, TX Fun Score 32
  105. #109 19 Plano, TX Fun Score 40
  106. #110 18 Manchester, NH Fun Score 55
  107. T#111 17 Sioux Falls, SD Fun Score 40
  108. T#111 17 Fargo, ND Fun Score 48
  109. #113 16 Henderson, NV Fun Score 13
  110. #114 15 Chesapeake, VA Fun Score 44
  111. T#115 14 Tulsa, OK Fun Score 51
  112. T#115 14 Boise, ID Fun Score 80
  113. #117 13 Fort Worth, TX Fun Score 18
  114. #118 12 Colorado Springs, CO Fun Score 51
  115. T#119 11 Jackson, MS Fun Score 25
  116. T#119 11 Key West, FL Fun Score 71
  117. #121 10 Hilton Head Island, SC Fun Score 58
  118. #122 9 Bakersfield, CA Fun Score 0
  119. T#123 8 Montgomery, AL Fun Score 41
  120. T#123 8 Scottsdale, AZ Fun Score 46
  121. #125 7 Oklahoma City, OK Fun Score 25
  122. #126 6 Gilbert, AZ Fun Score 31
  123. T#127 5 Chandler, AZ Fun Score 41
  124. T#127 5 Arlington, TX Fun Score 17
  125. #129 4 Bend, OR Fun Score 80
  126. #130 3 Sedona, AZ Fun Score 55
  127. #131 2 Bismarck, ND Fun Score 26
  128. T#132 1 Gatlinburg, TN Fun Score 71
  129. T#132 1 Stowe, VT Fun Score 44
  130. T#132 1 Telluride, CO Fun Score 77

2 of 134 cities have no transit quality 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.

Transit Quality is measured from GTFS schedules via Transit.land, the Federal Transit Administration National Transit Database and US Census ACS B08301 commuter mode share.