City ranking
How these towns compare
Each town placed on the national scale: where it sits among the ~2,287 U.S. cities and counties in the LOCUS corpus on three machine-scored dimensions. These are percentiles, not verdicts. A higher position means the score runs higher than most towns, not that a place is better or worse.
Only the 19 pilot towns are listed, ranked by their national
percentile. Scores are machine estimates from the LOCUS models.
Not legal advice.
Sorted by plainness. Higher = more than the typical US town; the │ mark is that typical (50th-percentile) town. How densely a law is written. Machine estimate.
- 1TerryMT97th
- 2SteamboatrockIA95th
- 3UtqiagvikAK89th
- 4Lake Placid VillageNY66th
- 5BaltimoreMD62nd
- 6CloudcroftNM53rd
- 7ChicagoIL44th
- 8New OrleansLA35th
- 9HonoluluHI33rd
- 10GrangevilleID26th
- 11DetroitMI13th
- 12HoustonTX10th
- 13PortlandOR9th
- 14MarshfieldWI9th
- 15SeattleWA4th
- 16San DiegoCA3rd
- 17AtlantaGA3rd
- 18State College BoroughPA1st
- 19San FranciscoCA0th
Percentiles place each town against the ~2,287 cities and counties in the LOCUS corpus. Machine estimates, shown as percentiles, not verdicts.