San Diego Among Best Cities For Singles: Study

SAN DIEGO, CA — If you’re single, looking to mingle and living in San Diego, you're in the right place.

WalletHub, a Washington D.C.-based personal finance website, crunched the numbers and came up with a list of 182 cities around the country, ranked by how single-friendly they are. San Diego came in as the fifth best spot for singles.

According to the study, San Diego is the fourth best city for singles gender balance. San Diego also came in 14th place for most restaurants per capita; 17th for nightlife options per capita; 20th for mobile dating opportunities; 26th for online dating opportunities; 29th for crime rate; and 69th for restaurant meal costs.

So where is the best spot for singles? San Francisco, according to WalletHub.

San Francisco, while it's the third most expensive city on the list, ranked third and fourth for fun and recreation and dating opportunities, respectively, so it grabbed the top spot. Atlanta, Los Angeles and Denver also filled out the top five of the list.

In other words, California dominated the top of WalletHub’s 2017 "Best and Worst Cities for Singles" list.

The worst cities in the country to date, according to WalletHub, are South Burlington, Vermont; Brownsville, Texas; Pembroke Pines, Florida; Hialeah, Florida; and Warwick, Rhode Island.

Here's the top five, along with other California cities in the top 50:

1. San Francisco, California
2. Atlanta, Georgia
3. Los Angeles, California
4. Denver, Colorado
5. San Diego, California
34. San Jose, California
44. Sacramento, California

The study was done by measuring several factors that have to do with how easy dating can be. The economics of an area, what sort of fun and recreation it offers and dating opportunities were the three categories the authors used, each given a ranking.

Economics looks at the affordability of the area, like the costs of restaurants and meals, alcoholic drinks, movie costs, taxi costs, housing costs and even haircut and salon costs. The fun and recreation category is made up of the number of attractions, coffee shops, restaurants, city walkability, nightlife options per capita and more.

Dating opportunities is a bit harder to measure, but WalletHub looked at the share of single population, gender balance, online dating opportunities, mobile dating opportunities and the most active Tinder users ranking.

Click here to view the full report.

Geoff Dempsey/Patch contributed to this article.

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