San Francisco Tops List Of Best Cities For Singles: Study

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — If you’re single and looking for love, 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. Topping the list: San Francisco.

Dead last: South Burlington, Vt.

San Francisco, while it’s the third most expensive city on the list, ranked three and four for fun and recreation and dating opportunities, respectively, so it grabbed the top spot. Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver and San Diego fill 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, Brownsville, Texas, Pembroke Pines, Fla., Hialeah, Fla. and Warwick, R.I.

Here's the top 5, along with other California cities in the top 50:

1. San Francisco, CA
2. Atlanta, GA
3. Los Angeles, CA
4. Denver, CO
5. San Diego, CA
34. San Jose, CA
44. Sacramento, CA

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 they 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 seems a bit harder to measure, but WalletHub use share of single population, gender balance, online dating opportunities, mobile dating opportunities and the most active Tinder users ranking.

Geoff Dempsey, Patch Staff contributed to this article | Article image public domain via Pixabay

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