By Aaron Earls
People in Las Vegas are apparently looking for more than a win at the casino. They’re looking for a way to cope with being alone.
CV Outreach, a Christian web ministry, analyzed Google searches for more than 100 terms related to loneliness and ranked U.S. cities by lonely searches per capita.
Sin City topped the list, but it is not alone out West. Six of the top 10 cities are from the western United States.
Nashville is the loneliest Southern city. And Texas had the most cities in the top 25 with four.
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Washington, D.C.
- Denver, Colorado
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Seattle, Washington
- Tucson, Arizona
- Portland, Oregon
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Detroit, Michigan
- Fresno, California
- Nashville, Tennessee
- San Francisco, California
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- El Paso, Texas
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Austin, Texas
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Columbus, Ohio
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Dallas, Texas
- Jacksonville, Florida
While Dallas was the most populous city to make the top 25, the nine other cities in the top 10 in U.S. population—New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego and San Jose—were all ranked right outside the top 25 and have higher than average rates of loneliness
The rates of loneliness in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and Denver are three times the national average, and all of the top 19 cities have at least double the average rate of loneliness.
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AARON EARLS (@WardrobeDoor) is online editor of Facts & Trends.
