- Hartford, CT
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Cincinnati, OH
- Atlanta, GA
- Baltimore, MD
- St. Louis, MO
- Austin, TX
- Raleigh, NC
- Providence, RI
- Buffalo, NY
- Richmond, VA
- Chicago, IL
- New York, NY
- Philadelphia, PA
According to the 2015 American Fitness Index (AFI) report which uses CDC and the Trust for Public Lands data to determine the quality of each criteria, park expenditures per resident and park acres per 1,000 residents is 30 percent of each score. Another 30 percent of the score is the number, or percentage, of residents within a healthy weight. And lastly, the percentage of residents who exercised within the last 30 days, which is 40 percent of the scores. This is the first year the survey looked at populations within a 10-minute walk of a park. What the index revealed is that the top-ranked cities were close to parks.