Miami, Florida, was ranked as the least neighborly city in America, beating other cities with notorious reputations for being standoffish, such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia.
AmeriCorps, using U.S. Census Bureau data, examined the 12 biggest metropolitan cities in the U.S. and evaluated them based on informal and formal volunteering. Miami came in last for “informal helping” with only 35.5% of residents willing to help their fellow residents, the New York Post reported.
Informal helping is defined as “assisting others outside of an organizational context, including doing favors for neighbors,” according to the study. Boston, for example, has the highest informal helping rate of 57.9%, followed by the City of Brotherly Love at 57.8%, Chicago at 54.6%, New York City at 43.6%, Los Angeles at 41.7% and Atlanta at 40.8%.
The study was based on data from September 2020 to 2021, when the pandemic raged and government-mandated lockdowns kept people home. It found that the states…