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City-Data.com is a U.S. city statistics site that builds detailed profiles for every city in the United States by collecting and analyzing data from government and private sources. It is useful when you want one place to compare cities on crime, real estate, schools, income, demographics, and weather before relocating or researching an area. The site reports over 14 million users per month and has been cited in 121 books and by outlets including CNN and USA Today's Hot Sites.
What data does City-Data.com cover?
The site organizes its content by category and by state. According to its own description, profiles can include:
- Crime rates
- Real estate and house prices
- Relocation information
- Cost of living
- Races and demographics
- Home value estimator and recent sales
- Income
- Photos
- Schools
- Maps
- Weather
- Neighborhoods
- Sex offenders
It also covers Canada, with province-level pages.
How the site is organized
City-Data groups its data into several browsable sections, each with state-level navigation:
| Section | What you find there |
|---|---|
| Cities | Full profiles for individual U.S. cities |
| Schools | School-related data by state |
| Neighborhoods | Neighborhood-level profiles |
| Assessments | Property assessment data for selected states |
| Restaurants | Restaurant listings by state |
| Sex Offenders | Offender data by state |
| Business Entities | Business registration data by state |
| Building Permits | Permit filings |
| Zip Codes | Zip code lookups |
| Canada | Province-level pages |
There is also an interactive data map, a blog, and city guides covering topics such as tourist attractions, banks, Covid-19, crime, work and jobs, and houses and apartments.
How to navigate it
- Use Quick navigation to jump straight to a state (for example FL, TX, or CA).
- Use By category to pick a data type first — Cities, Schools, Neighborhoods, Assessments, or Restaurants — then select a state.
- Use the search box or advanced city search to go directly to a detailed city profile.
The expected result is a profile page for the place you selected, with the data categories listed above.
When it is a good fit
City-Data.com works well as a starting point for comparing multiple cities on the same metrics, since every U.S. city gets a profile built from the same collection process. It is less suited to questions that need real-time or hyper-local verification — for example, current listing prices or a specific school's present enrollment — where you would want to confirm against the original source.