Where does Columbus rank on list of U.S.'s dirtiest cities?

Lawn care company LawnStarter recently inspected 303 U.S. cities much like a mother would check a child's room for cleanliness and ranked them in the company's 2024 Dirtiest Cities in America list. Ohio cities like Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and Akron made it on the list but weren't featured near the top.

LawnStarter ranked the cities using 21 metrics grouped into four main categories, pollution, living conditions, infrastructure and resident dissatisfaction. Each city was given a rating out of 100 in each of these categories, and the average score across each category determined the city's overall rank. Each city was also ranked in each individual category.

The study's detailed methodology is available on LawnStarter's website .

Where did Columbus rank on the list of dirtiest cities?

Columbus is the 115th dirtiest city in the U.S., according to the list.

Its position was determined by how it ranked in four individual categories. Here's how it did in each.

• 92nd most pollution
• 168th worst living conditions
• 104th worst infrastructure
• 187th worst resident dissatisfaction

Top 10 dirtiest U.S. cities

The buckeye state managed to keep all its cities out of list's top 10. Here are the dirtiest cities in the U.S.

1. San Bernardino, California
2. Detroit, Michigan
3. Reading, Pennsylvania
4. Newark, New Jersey
5. Ontario, California
6. Phoenix, Arizona
7. Trenton, New Jersey
8. Las Vegas, Nevada
9. Houston, Texas
10. Baytown, Texas

How did other Ohio cities do?

Columbus is the dirtiest of Ohio's cities featured on the list, coming in at rank 115. Here's how Ohio's other cities did.

• 136. Cleveland
• 159. Cincinnati
• 161. Akron
• 184. Toledo
• 237. Dayton

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Where does Columbus rank on list of U.S.'s dirtiest cities?