The Best City If You Love to Read Is a tie between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Seattle, Washington, which have been named the No. 1 U.S. cities for literacy, according to an annual ranking conducted this year by the Center for Public Policy and Social Research at Central Connecticut State University.
At the other end of the scale is El Paso, Texas which is the least literate U.S. city. El Paso isn't alone. Four Texas cities are in the bottom ten.
The ranking was based on local newspaper and magazine circulation, library data, online news readership, book purchases, Internet resources and educational achievement in cities with a population of 250,000 or more. The data for the 2008 analysis came from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Booksellers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations, Yellow Pages and other sources.
Top 10 U.S. cities for literacy:
1. Minneapolis, Minnesota and Seattle, Washington (tied)
3. Washington, D.C.
4. St. Paul, Minnesota
5. San Francisco, California
6. Atlanta, Georgia
7. Denver, Colorado
8. Boston, Massachusetts
9. St. Louis, Missouri
10. Cincinnati, Ohio and Portland, Oregon (tied)
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