LGBTQ Safety / Acceptance

Composite acceptance proxy from liberal politics and general safety scores.

Scale0-100

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.

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The formula is 60% Liberal Politics and 40% Safety.
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This is a broad proxy for political-cultural acceptance plus general safety, not a direct anti-LGBTQ hate-crime measure.

Technical details

Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by LGBTQ Safety / Acceptance.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

LGBTQ Safety / Acceptance rewards places with stronger broad acceptance and baseline safety proxies.

Statistics Feeding This Score

Liberal Politics
Published county presidential-vote-based liberal politics score.
Source: Published score components
Safety
Published violent, property, and homicide crime safety score.
Source: Published score components

Source Data

Source: Published score componentsAlready-published Places component scores reused as inputs to a composite score.

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 Safety / Acceptance.

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