What U.S. city has the worst crime rate per person? Step on up, East St. Louis, IL, you've done it again! How about the coldest winters? Congrats, Grand Forks, ND! Who has the most murders? Kudos and huzzas, East St. Louis, you've pulled off a double! Care to go for a hat trick with rapes? Aw, sorry, you're going to have to settle for second behind Berryville, AR!
City-Data.com has just released their latest Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties and Zip Codes Lists, a compilation of surveyed data from thousands of U.S. cities in literally hundreds of categories, from number of casinos to highest temperature difference in a year. There's tons of fascinating tidbits to be parsed from this wellspring of sheer information.
Sure, it's got the standard categories like highest population (no surprises here — it's New York City by a mile), but there's whole rafts of more obscure, interesting facts that can even inform lifestyle choices, say, if you'd like to move to a city where you can easily walk to work, which apparently is very popular on military bases and installations.
As for me, I know exactly where I plan to go to be with other alcoholics, find single women, and feel better about being poor.
Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties, and Zip Codes Lists (city-data.com)
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