San Francisco Fares Abysmally On 'Best Run Cities' Report

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Of 150 cities ranked among WalletHub's list of best and worst-run in the U.S., San Francisco came in at 149 — just one notch above dead last.

The financial advice site used several factors to measure how well cities are managed.

WalletHub's analysts constructed a "quality of services" score of 38 different metrics grouped into six categories, which were measured against the city's per-capita budget, according to the report.

"Even when the U.S. isn't in a time of (pandemic) crisis, running a city is a tall order," WalletHub researchers wrote in a report. "But how do we measure the effectiveness of local leadership? One way is by determining a city's operating efficiency."

The Bay Area city received high marks (no. 1) for having the lowest percentage of its population in poverty, 4.3 percent, compared to Flint, Mich., the city with the highest at 38.8 percent, according to the report.

There were 14 California cities included in the report.

Here's how California cities ranked:

• No. 20 Huntington Beach
• No. 63 Santa Ana
• No. 77 Fremont
• No. 94 San Jose
• No. 102. Anaheim
• No. 108 Bakersfield
• No. 116 Modesto
• No. 117 Stockton
• No. 120 Sacramento
• No. 123 Riverside
• No. 126 Fresno
• No. 127 Long Beach
• No. 134 Los Angeles
• No. 149 San Francisco

See the full list here.

Source: WalletHub

Patch editor Kat Schuster contributed to this report.