Where do you live? Is it “dirty”?
There are a few things that usually make something filthy. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on pollution, unhappy residents, bad infrastructure, and bad living conditions.
The word “dirty” can mean different things to different people, but there are some things that everyone can agree are pretty dirty, like trash on the sidewalk or a lot of rats and bugs crawling around inside an unclean building.
Nebraska probably has a few dirty spots, but only one is known for being the dirtiest.
LawnStarter made a list that says Omaha is the dirtiest city in all of Nebraska. Some of the dirtiest cities in the whole country were also in this city (231).
LawnStarter talked about how they put together the data to find the US cities with the dirtiest air:
“First, we determined the factors (metrics) that are most relevant to rank the Dirtiest Cities in America. We then assigned a weight to each factor based on its importance and grouped those factors into 4 categories: Pollution, Living Conditions, Infrastructure, and Resident Dissatisfaction. The categories, factors, and their weights are listed in the table below. For each of the 500 biggest U.S. cities, we then gathered data on each factor from the sources listed below the table. We eliminated 197 cities lacking sufficient data in a single category, resulting in a final sample size of 303 cities. Finally, we calculated scores (out of 100 points) for each city to determine its rank in each factor, each category, and overall.”