{"id":16944,"date":"2026-09-28T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/?p=16944"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:30:41","slug":"most-neighborly-cities-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/most-neighborly-cities-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Provo, Utah, Is America’s Most Neighborly City of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

San Francisco and Boise, Idaho, take second and third in a ranking shaped by what Americans say matters most<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy National Good Neighbor Day. Today Neighbor.com is naming the 2026 Most Neighborly Cities in America, and Provo, Utah, takes the top spot. San Francisco is No. 2 and Boise, Idaho, is No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, Americans helped write the formula. We asked 1,011 U.S. adults what makes a city neighborly, and their answers set how much each of our seven measures counts. Safety mattered most, and helping the people next door came in second. Then we scored 100 U.S. cities on crime, charitable giving, volunteering, voter turnout, population growth and local sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top three span every size group: Provo leads our small cities, Boise leads the medium cities and San Francisco leads the large ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 Most Neighborly Cities in America<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Provo, UT<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. San Francisco, CA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Boise, ID<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Madison, WI<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Virginia Beach, VA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Ogden, UT<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. San Diego, CA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Richmond, VA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Seattle, WA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Salt Lake City, UT<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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