The Best Cities

Updated on: 7 February 2024 7:08 pm

The Best Cities

The Best Cities

The Top 10 Cities
Rank	City	Index Value

1	Chandigarh	100.0
2	Chennai	83.4
3	Kolkata	79.4
4	Hyderabad	71.0
5	Mumbai	67.0
6	Bangalore	66.5
7	Bhopal	62.3
8	Goa	61.2
9	Pondicherry	53.8
10	Ahmedabad	48.7

The Metro Countdown

1	Chennai	83.4
2	Kolkata	79.4
3	Hyderabad	71.0
4	Mumbai	67.0
5	Bangalore	66.5
6	Delhi	45.4

Popular cities which missed the top 10 list

13	Delhi	45.4
17	Darjeeling	41.2
31	Visakhapatnam	33.1
41	Pune	22.4
38	Gwalior	25.0

OnIndividual Parameters

Jobs And Income

1	Chandigarh	100.0
2	Bangalore	96.3
3	Gurgaon	95.3
4	Chennai	90.9
5	Hyderabad	87.8

Education

1	Coimbatore	100.0
2	Hyderabad	94.6
3	Chennai	87.6
4	Nagpur	83.8
5	Darjeeling	82.0

Health

1	Chennai	100.0
2	Calcutta	90.6
3	Bangalore	82.7
4	Indore	67.8
5	Cuttack	55.7

Prices

1	Puri	100.0
2	Cuttack	93.3
3	Daman & Diu	69.7
4	Raipur	69.6
5	Varanasi	67.6

Safety

1	Kochi	100.0
2	Bangalore	73.0
3	Ahmedabad	66.9
4	Kozhikode	64.8
5	Pondicherry	57.4

Transport

1	Surat	100.0
2	Faridabad	97.2
3	Chandigarh	96.2
4	Ahmedabad	79.6
5	Rajkot	70.6

Housing

1	Gandhinagar	100.0
2	Hyderabad	93.0
3	Vadodara	92.6
4	Thane	92.5
5	Chandigarh	88.4

Pollution

1	Raipur	100.0
2	Tpuram	100
3	Shimla	100
4	Kozhikode	100
5	Chennai	86.0

Finance Network

1	Chandigarh	100.0
2	Calcutta	86.4
3	Gandhinagar	70.8
4	Mumbai	69.7
5	Chennai	68.5

Entertainment

1	Darjeeling	100.0
2	Goa	97.9
3	Shimla	85.2
4	Calcutta	84.2
5	Thane	79.1

Consumption

1	Chandigarh	100.0
2	Daman & Diu	64.4
3	Hyderabad	62.5
4	Delhi	61.9
5	Bhopal	60.1

Weather

1	Mysore	100.0
2	Shillong	89.8
3	Bangalore	89.7
4	Guwahati	66.8
5	Dehradun	64.7

The Methodology
First, 47 city-specific measures were divided into the 12 broad but diversecategories (see charts). Many of these had to be normalised for the number ofsec a&b households. Next, each of these were re-normalised. Twelve intermediateindices were then derived by giving equal weights to each of the measures for each of the12 categories. The final index was created for each city by taking the average of each ofthese indices. The 12-category indices and the one overall index were then rescaled sothat they had a minimum value of 0 and maximum of 100. A higher value indicates betterperformance.