Atlanta Tops Best Cities for Singles by Forbes

Last year it was San Francisco, this year it is Atlanta which gained the number 1 spot in Forbes annual top 40 cities in America for Singles to live. The 40 largest cities in the United States are ranked in 7 different categories. This includes, nightlife, online dating activity, job growth, number of singles, culture, cost of living alone and coolness. All cities where ranked in the 7 categories. Then all categories, which were given equal weight, where totalled for the cities final ranking. The top 5 cities for singles are (according to Forbes):

1. Atlanta
2. San Francisco
3. Dallas
4. Minneapolis
5. Washington D.C.

As a city, Atlanta offers an above average ranking in almost all 7 categories with Job Growth as a stand out in which they were ranked number 4 out of 40. Online Dating activity was their worse category with a ranking of 24. Out of a population of over 4 million, 26.8 percent of adults are single which gave them a rank of 14. San Francisco earned the top spot for the number of singles category with 30 percent of their adult population being single.

According to Forbes methodology on how each of the 7 categories are used to rank a city, Match.com was used to determine the online dating activity. This was based on the number of active profiles in each city. To figure out the coolest city, Harris Interactive conducted a poll that asked U.S. adults to name the city from among the 40 selected.

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