THE DIRTIEST CITIES IN AMERICA

A publication called HouseFresh, which focuses on indoor air quality, analyzed 12.3 million sanitation-related complaints to cities and has come up with a list of the Dirtiest Cities in the U.S., based on complaints in the past year about things like trash, dirty streets, pests, healthcare problems and poor sanitation.
1. Baltimore, Maryland 47,295 calls
2. Sacramento, California 34,186 calls
3. Charlotte, North Carolina 31,112 calls
4. Los Angeles, California 21,616
5. Memphis, Tennessee 17,408
6. Boston, Massachusetts 10,252 (* I bet it’s because of that old “Dirty Water” song.)
7. San Antonio, Texas 8,929
8. Kansas City, Kansas 8,874(* Must be all that dust.)
9. Buffalo, New York 8,509 (* Must be all those buffalo.)
10. Dallas, Texas 8,382
11. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 7,854
12. Nashville, Tennessee 7,703
13. Chicago, Illinois 7,376
14. Houston, Texas 6,275
15. Oakland, California 6,139
16. New Orleans, Louisiana 5,295 (* This is the city they literally hose off each morning, and it’s only #16?)
17. New York, New York 3,728
18. Miami, Florida 3,284
19. San Francisco, California 2,411
20. Austin, Texas 2,245
21: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2,144
22. Riverside, California 1,609
23. Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the cleanest city in America with only 309 calls.
* I would posit that Milwaukee is actually the dirtiest, but people are just so used to all the filth they don’t bother calling anymore.