Score
LGBTQ Policy Climate
HRC Municipal Equality Index score when directly matched, with a conservative state-sample fallback.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
LGBTQ Policy Climate rewards places with stronger municipal LGBTQ policy and inclusion scores.
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Directly matched municipalities use their HRC MEI score.
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Unmatched places use a conservative fallback: 55% same-state HRC sample median and 45% neutral 50.
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If no same-state HRC sample is available, the score is neutral 50.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by LGBTQ Policy Climate.
What This Score Means
LGBTQ Policy Climate rewards places with stronger municipal LGBTQ policy and inclusion scores.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- HRC Municipal Equality IndexSource: Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index
Municipal LGBTQ equality score out of 100 when a place is directly matched.
Source Data
Known Limits
- These are social-climate proxies, not guarantees of personal safety, discrimination risk, neighborhood-level culture, or lived experience.
- HRC MEI directly covers 506 municipalities; unmatched places use a conservative state-sample fallback for the policy component.
- ACS same-sex spouse/partner counts are household-relationship estimates, not a full LGBTQ population estimate, and can be noisy for small places.
- The score does not yet include Pride/community organizations, LGBTQ healthcare access, trans-specific protections, school policies, or directly measured anti-LGBTQ hate crimes.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by LGBTQ Policy Climate.