Tennessee Locales Rank Poorly In Analysis Of Best-Run Cities
Photo: View of Chattanooga, Tennessee from Point Park on the top of Lookout Mountain.
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Published June 24, 2021
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A new report from WalletHub ranks Chattanooga, Tennessee, as the fourth-worst run large city in the country, behind Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York.
Not far behind, at No. 133, was Memphis while Knoxville was 113th and Nashville ranked 111th.
The rankings of the top 150 cities in population in the country were calculated using financial stability, education, health, safety, economy and infrastructure and pollution as the basis. WalletHub used 38 different metrics to score the cities in those areas, including a total budget per capita figure.
Some of the statistics included are the rankings of K-12 schools, crime rate and transit scores.
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“We can learn how well city officials manage and spend public funds by comparing the quality of services residents receive against the city’s total budget,” study author and financial writer Adam McCann wrote.
One area that hurt Chattanooga the most in the rankings was its budget per capita, which ranked 146th.
Memphis was hurt most in the rankings by its lack of quality city services and both health and safety, where it ranked 149th out of 150. Memphis also had one of the highest infant mortality rates.
None of the Tennessee cities ranked in the top five in any of the breakout categories in the study, but Nashville was tied for the worst in long-term outstanding debt per capita.
Chattanooga has been ranked in the top 10 worst-run cities by WalletHub each of the past five years.
Knoxville ranked 18th in infrastructure and pollution while it was just outside the top 20 in education and financial stability. Nashville was ranked ninth in economy.
Two Idaho cities, Nampa and Boise, were atop the rankings while Lexington-Fairfield, Kentucky, ranked fifth.
Why? Is it run by Liberals? Is it teaching CRT in schools? Is conducting defund the police activities, banning Christian activities, is it tearing down Confederate war memorials? Or is the survey incorrect? Get my drift?
I get your drift, thank you Randy for clearing up that misinformation. I live in Nashville and I’m considering moving to Chattanooga. The last thing I need is to be misled by a biased survey that does not touch any of the really important issues.
I guess you can’t take the politics out of anything –can you. I can walk the streets downtown and always feel safe (don’t have to where a bullet proof vest, streets are clean, free mass transit is available, the first responders are well though of and the restaurants don’t have BLM disturbing anyone). If I lived in a city that had all this crap going on Maybe I would think there is something wrong with Chattanooga, a well run city, would be foreign to me. But I don’t– I just love Tennessee!
Nashville is dying under John Cooper.
Worst ever.