The 9 Best Cities For Online Dating, Ranked By SNAP Interactive

SNAP Interactive, the company behind social dating app Are You Interested, recently released the results from a study that gauges which cities have the most active online dating communities. The results, some of which may surprise you, are based on usage data collected from AreYouInterested.com and from a survey of 500 fans of the Are You Interested Facebook page.

Are You Interested is currently one of the largest Facebook dating applications. With it users can browse through other Facebook members who have the app and answer the question "Are you interested?" about users they come across. If the person you professed interest in is also interested in you, you both get a message saying so. If only one of you is interested, no message is sent. In 2009, SNAP Interactive expanded Are You Interested to include a location based iPhone app, which lets you browse users in your area.

SNAP Interactive didn't release the survey or the how they determined whether a city was "active", but it's interesting to note that only three of the cities on its list corresponded with Travel + Leisure's July 2011 list of the top ten cities for singles. The Travel + Leisure list looked at how open people were to meeting new singles, whether they be at boutique hotels, in coffee shops, on mass transit, or in bars. The study also considered the diversity of each of its 20 highest-ranked cities were. According to these measures, New Orleans is the best place for singles, followed by Austin, Las Vegas and New York. (Interestingly, New Orleans also ranked #7 on a July 2011 list of the 10 least social cities in America, according to NetProspex.)

To see how SNAP's results differ, check out the slideshow (below). Then, see if these cities compare to NetProspex's list of the most social and least social cities in the U.S.

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[StellaBranch78]

10:26 PM on 11/30/2011

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[Screaming-of-the-Lambs]

12:40 PM on 11/30/2011

Online dating is beyond ridiculous. I don't think it has anything to do with what city you're in.

[Tolms]

04:49 PM on 11/29/2011

NYC as #1 doesn't surprise me, but it doesn't make dating in NYC any easier.

[Spock]

03:24 PM on 11/29/2011

Chicago is #3? That's news to me.

[waldopepper]

12:15 PM on 11/29/2011

Change the headline, to best American cities.

[Nelson Montana]

09:10 AM on 11/29/2011

I've done on line dating in New York. If that's the best, it's a pretty sad state of affairs.

[bobbyndallas]

08:45 AM on 11/29/2011

Remember, the Huffington Post is now just a big corporation. Probably staffed by by bubbleheaded recent MBA grads, just like the twit in video

[bobbyndallas]

08:42 AM on 11/29/2011

so, like , I wonder, like , if , like our corporations , are like, ya know, being run by twits like the one I , like, just saw, on like, omg, I am so emotional,

[Margo Arrowsmith]

10:01 AM on 11/29/2011

lol  fanned because it was perfect.

[SukiTheCat]

08:37 AM on 11/29/2011

what does it matter what city you're in if you're online dating?

[Bados]

11:35 PM on 11/28/2011

Why isnt Cyberville #1?

[scoobydubious]

10:27 PM on 11/28/2011

So no city in the Bay Area even made the list?

Highly suspect.

[Philclock]

10:15 PM on 11/28/2011

If you're dating online, who needs a city??

[FancyAmerican]

08:45 PM on 11/28/2011

Large cities and fast-growing cities. Amazing.

I'm going to start putting out my own rankings soon.

The TOP 10 most gullible cities:

Everyone will flock to it to see if their city is on the list.

[giddyup523]

08:34 PM on 11/28/2011

Wow, how insightful. Seven of the nine are in the top 10 in population and Indianapolis is #12. How strange that large centers of population make it easier to online date in. Did they actually take into account activity levels per a population amount or just total activity? The only interesting listing is Denver.