L.A. Looks Nothing Like America and That's Fine With Us

This election season feels like a disaster movie trailer voiced by the late, great Don LaFontaine.

In a world where we discriminate by religion, deport 11 million residents and think any judge who isn't white is suspect, there's one city where you can find solace. Welcome to Los Angeles ...

Yep, L.A. is its own place, often set apart from the rest of America, or at least from the really lame parts.

A new analysis of Metro Areas That Most & Least Resemble the U.S. by personal finance website WalletHub finds that L.A. ranks low ? 359th overall?out of 379 cities.

L.A. (actually the L.A.Long BeachAnaheim metropolitan statistical area) also ranked near the bottom (50th out of 52) for big cities, the site found.

WalletHub looked at several metrics, including age, race, gender, income and even tenure in each town.

Los Angeles highlights include our bottom ranking, 379th, for tenure. Thanks, Hollywood. We ranked low (348th) for race. Thanks, Latinos. We also ranked fairly low (132nd) for our horrific wealth gap between rich and poor. Thanks, Patrick Soon-Shiong.

Here are some breakout stats for L.A. that were given to us by a WalletHub spokeswoman:


124th Age

348th Race

166th Household Makeup

290th Percent of Population with Health Insurance Coverage

379th Housing Tenure (Renter-to-Owner Ratio)

100th Household Income

132nd Wealth Gap

304th Percent of Households Receiving Food Stamps

183rd Educational Attainment?

If you want to move to a city that looks most like America, Indianapolis is the place. So go. Please. (L.A.'s getting kind of crowded.)

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