Rating

Near Target Place

Scale56-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places closest to the selected target place by straight-line distance, using a 50-mile rating-midpoint radius.

Sources

1 source

2024 files

Data: Official internal-point latitude and longitude for the selected Census place and each candidate place.
What it tells us: Provides reproducible straight-line great-circle distance between one representative point per place; it does not measure boundary-to-boundary distance, route distance, or travel time.

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