North Dakota Is Home To One Of The Cleanest Cities In The Country

While you drive around different cities in North Dakota, you might notice trash on the ground, trash in parking lots, trash scattered throughout grassy areas and other unsightly things. What if I told you, that despite the trash you may notice, a couple North Dakota towns are the cleanest in the country?

North Dakota Cities The Cleanest?

Lawnstarter.com did a study, looking at the dirtiest cities in the United States; they looked at 300 of the biggest cities in the country and ranked them based on four different categories.

Rankings

The source used 21 different metrics to come up with these findings. Some of the metrics include: air pollution, water quality, waste management, and resident dissatisfaction levels in each city.

The Dirtiest City In The Country

The dirtiest city in the country, according to the source, is San Bernardino, California. Overall, the city's score was 54.90.

The second dirtiest city was found to be Detroit, Michigan ranking at 52.89. You’ll also notice Reading, Pennsylvania as number three on the list. Number four is none other than Newark, New Jersey.

Cleanest Cities Is The Country

What about the cleanest cities? The source claims the cleanest in the country is Lynchburg, Virginia. Our neighboring state, Minnesota, has the second cleanest city -- Duluth, Minnesota.

Cleanest City In North Dakota

So, which North Dakota city ranks among the cleanest? Fargo comes in at number 20 on the source's "Cleanest Cities in the Country" list.

Bismarck isn’t too far behind, as it ranks at number 53 out of a total of 303.

Thoughts?

Do you agree with this list? Do you think Bismarck and Fargo or some of the cleanest cities in the country?