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Each year, Neighbor.com ranks US cities on "a variety of publicly available data sets related to charitable giving, generosity, happiness, and well-being of residents, and other factors we think contribute to a city’s overall neighborliness," the company says.
The company asked Americans about their neighborly habits, their relationships with their neighbors, and what they think makes a community most neighborly. Here are some of the things it discovered:
Rising gas prices had people spending more time with their neighbors and local friends than they used to.
"After enduring more than two brutal years of pandemic conditions and a tumultuous economy, 42.5% of people are more willing than before to help out a neighbor, and 41% are choosing to support small businesses over national chains," the company reports.
You can read more about the methodology and survey results here.
Here's how the ranking shapes up on the list of "The 2022 Most Neighborly Cities In America," according to neighbor.com.
The number one most neighborly city of 2022 was Rochester, New York, the only Pennsylvania city to make the top 10 was Harrisburg at number 9 and the only one to make the top twenty was Pittsburgh at 19. Allentown placed 24. You can check out the full list here.
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