An Arizona city was named among 10 cleanest US cities. Do you agree?

When visitors question to a caller city, however cleanable a spot is oregon isn't tin impact their wide sentiment of the area.

A caller survey from Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning ranked the 35 largest metropolitan areas successful the United States based connected their cleanliness. The results were based connected factors specified arsenic pat h2o quality, percent of pests successful the country and the fig of days successful a twelvemonth that the aerial prime was considered good.

One of Arizona's largest cities made the database of apical 10 cleanest areas, and it mightiness astonishment you. Here's which metropolis successful the Grand Canyon State ranked ninth wide for cleanliness, and wherever different U.S. cities placed.

How were the cleanest places determined?

Oxi Fresh utilized 7 cleanliness factors to fertile each metro country connected a standard of astir to slightest clean, represented by a missive people betwixt A+ and D.

The results came from an investigation of the largest U.S. metro areas utilizing the astir caller information from the Census Bureau's American Housing Survey.

Each metro country could gain up to 100 points for each of the 7 factors, which were past totaled to find the cleanliness people and converted to a missive grade.

• Population density: The fig of radical per quadrate mile. According to Oxi Fresh, a higher attraction of radical tin pb to accrued pollution, poorer aerial quality, greater strain connected infrastructure and much analyzable discarded management.

• Rodents: The percent of lodging units with signs of mice, rats oregon different rodents wrong the location betwixt April 2024 - 2025.

• Cockroaches: The percent of lodging units with signs of cockroaches wrong the location successful the past year.

• Vandalism: The percent of homes without vandalized oregon abandoned buildings wrong a half-block radius.

• Litter: The percent of homes without litter, trash oregon "junk" connected the streets oregon properties wrong a half-block radius.

• Air Quality: The fig of days successful 2024 that the regular Air Quality Index values were classified arsenic "good" (values of 50 AQI oregon less) for each AQI pollutants: CO, NO2, Ozone, PM10 and PM2.5.

• Tap Water Quality: The mean fig of antithetic types of contaminants detected successful the metro area's drinking h2o that exceeded the Environmental Working Group's wellness guidelines.

Another view: Phoenix ranked 6th dirtiest metropolis successful US by caller study. Here's why

Metro Phoenix is 9th cleanest US city

Metro Phoenix made Oxi Fresh's database of apical 10 cleanest cities successful the United States and received a bully grade. Here's however Oxi Fresh ranked the Valley:

• Population density: 348 radical per quadrate mile

• Rodents: 2.1%

• Cockroaches: 15.5%

• Vandalism: 93.9%

• Litter: 89.8%

• Air quality: 24 days of bully AQI scale scores successful 2024

• Tap h2o quality: 8.5 contaminants

• Cleanliness grade: B

Top 10 cleanest cities successful the U.S.

These are the cleanest cities and metropolitan areas successful the United States and their cleanliness grades, according to Oxi Fresh.

• Portland and the surrounding areas of Vancouver and Hillsboro, Oregon: A+

• Seattle metropolitan area: A

• Rochester, New York: A-

• Detroit, Warren and Dearborn, Michigan: B+

• Minneapolis metropolitan area: B+

• Pittsburgh: B

• Richmond, Virginia: B

• Denver and surrounding area: B

• Phoenix metropolitan area, including Mesa and Chandler: B

• Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas: B-

10 dirtiest cities successful the U.S.

Out of the largest metro areas successful the U.S., these are the cities that Oxi Fresh determined were the slightest cleanable and their cleanliness grades.

• New York, Newark and Jersey City metro areas, New York/New Jersey, D

• Los Angeles, Long Beach and Anaheim metro areas, California, D+

• Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington metro areas, Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware/Maryland, D+

• Houston, Pasadena and The Woodlands metro areas, Texas, C-

• Washington, Arlington and Alexandria metro areas, Washington, D.C./Virginia/Maryland/West Virginia, C

• Chicago, Naperville and Elgin metro areas, Illinois/Indiana, C

• Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington metro areas, Texas, C

• Birmingham, Alabama, C

• Cincinnati, Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana, C+

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, C+

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