Most Family-Friendly Cities

Playgrounds, parks, schools and libraries per resident.

22 cities ranked in the United States.

Rank	City	Population	Score
1	Denver, CO Denver County	729,019	89.7
2	Seattle, WA King County	780,995	84.9
3	Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia County	1,573,916	84.1
4	Columbus, OH Franklin County	933,263	81.0
5	Nashville-Davidson, TN Davidson County	704,963	81.0
6	Indianapolis, IN Marion County	891,484	74.6
7	Charlotte, NC Mecklenburg County	943,476	72.2
8	Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma County	712,919	70.6
9	San Jose, CA Santa Clara County	997,368	69.8
10	Chicago, IL Cook County	2,721,308	61.9
11	Austin, TX Travis County	993,588	47.6
12	Jacksonville, FL Duval County	1,009,833	44.4
13	Dallas, TX Dallas County	1,326,087	35.3
14	New York, NY Kings County	8,478,072	34.1
15	San Antonio, TX Bexar County	1,526,656	33.3
16	El Paso, TX El Paso County	681,723	31.8
17	Las Vegas, NV Clark County	678,922	27.0
18	Houston, TX Harris County	2,390,125	24.2
19	San Diego, CA San Diego County	1,404,452	20.6
20	Fort Worth, TX Tarrant County	1,008,106	19.8
21	Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County	3,878,704	11.9
22	San Francisco, CA San Francisco County	827,526	0.0

How this ranking works

Each metric is scored 0-100 by percentile against the other ranked cities, then blended using these weights:

Playgrounds per 10,000 residents ×2
Schools per 10,000 residents ×2
Parks per 10,000 residents ×1
Libraries per 10,000 residents ×1

Place counts cover a 5 km radius around each city's center, so cities are compared like for like. Scores are relative to the cities in our dataset. About the data.