CityFunIndex

Press

Media kit

Everything a reporter, partner or researcher needs to write about CityFunIndex — in one page.

Boilerplate

Paste-ready single paragraph. Please don't edit it for length — link back to cityfunindex.com if you need to abbreviate.

CityFunIndex is a US city ranking that scores how much there is to actually do in a place — restaurants, live music, parks, nightlife, culture, the outdoors and more — on a single 0–100 scale called the Fun Score. It is independent, free to browse, and built from 23 factors drawn from open government datasets, public sources and licensed commercial APIs — more inputs than any comparable US city index (Walk Score uses 1, AreaVibes 7, Niche roughly 8, BestPlaces.net roughly 10), with every weight published and re-shuffleable in the browser. Every score is recomputed daily on a published calendar, and the full methodology is public. The index currently covers 134 US cities across 50 states + DC.

At a glance

Cities scored
134
States covered
50 + DC
Factors per city
23 (16 upside, 7 friction)
Data coverage
23/23 all factors live
vs. other city indexes
23 factors (Walk Score 1, AreaVibes 7, Niche ~8, BestPlaces.net ~10)
Score range
0–100
Refresh cadence
daily
Pricing for readers
Free to browse, no account

Brand assets

Free to use in articles and on partner pages, without permission, as long as the credit reads CityFunIndex (one word, mixed case).

  • Logo mark (SVG) — vector favicon, scales to any size, transparent background.
  • Full lockup (PNG, 2816×1536) — the brand mark plus wordmark plus tagline, soft-cream background. Use when you need everything in one image.
  • Full lockup, transparent (PNG) — same lockup, background removed. Use when placing the logo on a coloured surface.
  • Mark only (PNG, transparent) — just the speedometer-and-skyline icon, transparent background. Sized variants: 600px, 256px, 128px.
  • Wordmark only (PNG, transparent) — the “CityFunIndex” wordmark with the “Fun Score for Every City” tagline, transparent background.
  • Social card (PNG) — 1200×630, suitable for embedding in articles or sharing on social.
  • Data API — every city, every Fun Score and all 23 factors, as licensed JSON. Journalists can request a full dataset extract for a story at no charge (contact below).

How to credit us

In running text, please refer to the project as CityFunIndex and the metric as the Fun Score. When quoting a specific score, please include a link to the relevant city page (for example, cityfunindex.com/city/austin-tx) so readers can verify and explore the breakdown.

Every city page carries a paste-ready citation block — one line with the score, the algorithm version that produced it, and the canonical URL — under the “Cite this page” heading. Hit copy and it lands in your draft.

A typical credit line:

Source: CityFunIndex Fun Score (cityfunindex.com), recomputed daily.

Quick answers

Reporters ask the same questions. Here are the short forms; the methodology page and the FAQ have the long ones.

Is the data real or simulated right now?
The data is live — every published score is a real measurement. Each city and leaderboard page carries a freshness chip showing when the score was last computed and the algorithm version that produced it.
Can a city pay to rank higher?
No. CityFunIndex is independent and accepts no payment from cities, tourism boards or chambers of commerce. Rankings come from the data alone.
Why these 23 factors, and not others?
The set is fixed in the published methodology to keep cross-city comparisons fair. Each factor was chosen because it captures something a person would notice on the ground — venues, events, outdoor access, scene density — rather than something abstract.
Are any factors missing data?
No factor is held out across the board — all 23 factors are live and scored for every city. Per-cell gaps are still possible (one city, one factor, one missing observation), and when that happens the recompute fills just that cell with the published §6.5 placeholder (the median value of 50) and discloses it in the per-city API payload as score=50 with the thin flag set on the cell (the raw measured value itself is withheld from the public payload and reserved for the paid Data plan). Competing indexes generally don't publish their coverage stats at all; ours is on the methodology page.
Who is behind CityFunIndex?
CityFunIndex is built and operated under the CondorBox umbrella by a small independent team. For attribution beyond CityFunIndex, please email us with the angle of your piece and we can supply a named quote.
Can I get raw data for an analysis?
Yes. Every Fun Score and all 23 factors are available through the licensed data API; the pricing page has the plans, and bulk extracts (every city in one pull) are part of the Business and Enterprise tiers. Press requests for research analyses are usually granted at no charge — email below.

Contact

Press, partnership and research enquiries: api@cityfunindex.com (one inbox covers both press and developer enquiries). For a faster turnaround, please mention your outlet and deadline in the subject line.