{"id":9192,"date":"2022-09-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog2.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2024-09-27T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:41:47","slug":"most-neighborly-cities-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/most-neighborly-cities-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2022 Most Neighborly Cities in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[For the most recent rankings, <\/i>see Neighbor’s 2024 rankings<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n

In 2022, what does it mean to be neighborly?<\/p>\n

This year has brought Americans a much-needed sense of normalcy. But just as pandemic restrictions lifted — and people resumed planning gatherings, going on vacations, and buying new clothes to wear to formal events or the office — troubling economic conditions have stifled some of the excitement, especially when it comes to going out and spending. With inflation now at its highest rate in decades, picking up where we left off in 2019 comes with a much higher price tag.<\/p>\n

But have these new challenges reunited communities? Have they changed how we interact with our neighbors around us? That’s what we wanted to find out.<\/p>\n

We set out to do something we’ve been doing now for several years: Finding the 25 Most Neighborly Cities in America (see our 2021<\/a> and 2020<\/a> rankings). Each year, we’ve based these rankings 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.<\/p>\n

This year is no different — we still took into account all those factors for the top 25. But what’s different in 2022 is that we surveyed actual 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 we learned:<\/p>\n