Cities similar to Los Angeles

Ranked by how close each city sits to Los Angeles across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

Tel Aviv-Yafo is the closest match, 10.9 percentile points from Los Angeles across 9 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on women aged 20–39, cost of living and city-centre rent. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 19.8 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 2 of the 10 are also in United States of America; the other 8 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Los Angeles because both score badly on the same things.

921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.

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Tel Aviv-YafoIsrael10.99women aged 20–39, cost of living, city-centre rent
JerusalemIsrael12.29universities, city-centre rent, green space
BarcelonaSpain15.010safety, salary against local costs, green space
San DiegoUnited States of America15.310cost of living, city-centre rent, local salary
BolognaItaly15.410places to eat, salary against local costs, green space
MilanItaly15.810safety, green space, clean air
PhoenixUnited States of America16.610local salary, safety, universities
BarcelonaVenezuela18.610clean air, safety, salary against local costs
NaplesItaly19.410salary against local costs, places to eat
BilbaoSpain19.810places to eat, salary against local costs, women aged 20–39

Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.

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