Cities & food security - North America
We have compared a total of 850 cities all over the world on a number of food-related indicators like availability, food risks and healthy lifestyle. In this list you will find the top 25 largest cities (expected in 2030) in North America in alphabetical order.
Find the city you want more information about and get an overall impression. We tell you if the overall ranking was:
- Very low
- Rather low
- Low
- Below average
- Average
- Above average
- High
- Rather high
- Very high
Furthermore we will indicate which 5 indicators had a more than average positive (+) or negative (-) effect on the ranking. (o is neutral)
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Atlanta (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather high |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- share of meat and fish in diet
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- vegitable/fruit/nuts production
- remaining agriland
Boston (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- sanitation and hygiene
- child stunting
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- GDP development
- kcal from vegetable/fruit/nuts
- remaining agriland
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Chicago (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- population increase
- BMI (food risk)
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- remaining agriland
- Gini-index
- green living environment around city
Ciudad de Guatemala / Guatemala City (Guatemala)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- kcal intake (total)
- population increase
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- child stunting
Ciudad de México / Mexico City (Mexico)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- climate
- proximity stores
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- GDP development
- Gini-index
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- green living around the city
Dallas-Fort Worth (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | + |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- remaining agriland
- risk from flood
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- climate risk
- Gini-index
Detroit (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- Gini-index
Guadalajara (Mexico)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- climate
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- GDP development
- Gini-index
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Houston (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | + |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- remaining agriland
- infrastructure
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- Gini-index
- population increase
- risk from flood
- green living environment around city,
- climate risk
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- GDP
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- ease of doing business
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- green living environment around city
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Miami (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- risk from flood
- green living environment around city
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Minneapolis-St. Paul (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- Gini-index
Monterrey (Mexico)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- remaining agriland
- risk from flood
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- GDP development
- Gini-index
Montréal (Canada)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- child stunting
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- green living environment around city
New York-Newark (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- remaining agriland
- risk from flood
- green living environment around city
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Philadelphia (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- proximity stores
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- Gini-index
- climate risk
Phoenix-Mesa (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- proximity stores
- risk from flood
- stability country
- remaining agriland
- prosperous (economic activity)
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- climate
- Gini-index
Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | o |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | - |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (health)
- green living environment around city
Indicators with a negative effect:
- climate
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- total kcal intake
- prosperous (economic activity)
- risk from flood
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- sanitation and hygiene
Puebla (Mexico)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Low |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | o |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- climate
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- GDP development
- Gini-index
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
San Diego (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather high |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- GDP development
- kcal from vegetable/fruit/nuts
San Francisco-Oakland (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- climate
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- population increase
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- fresh food production
- Gini-index
- green living environment around city
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Below average |
| Availability | o |
| Food risk | - |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | - |
| Affordability | o |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- proximity stores
Indicators with a negative effect:
- climate
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- total kcal intake
- population increase
- risk from flood
Seattle (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Average |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- climate
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- climate risk
- fresh food production
- GDP development
- remaining agriland
- vegetable/fruit/nuts production
Toronto (Canada)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | High |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | o |
| Healthy lifestyle | + |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- Gini-index
- infrastructure
- prosperous (economic activity)
- proximity stores
- stability country
- child stunting
- climate risk
Indicators with a negative effect:
- green living environment around city
Washington D.C. (United States of America)
| Score | |
|---|---|
| Overall ranking | Rather high |
| Availability | - |
| Food risk | + |
| Healthy lifestyle | - |
| Accessibility | + |
| Affordability | + |
Indicators with a positive effect:
- BMI (food risk)
- ease of doing business
- GDP
- infrastructure
- prosperous (economic activity)
- stability country
- share of meat and fish in diet
- diversity diet
- kcal from meat and fish
- child stunting
- sanitation and hygiene
Indicators with a negative effect:
- arabale land
- BMI (health)
- Gini-index
- climate risk