Best cities for sports in Arizona

BookrGo Best Sport Cities ranking: we rank the cities of Arizona by their 0-10 sports score, which combines density of centers per resident, variety of sports, listing quality and real activity. To keep the comparison fair, we measure every city's offering with the same sources of national coverage. An honest way to see where it's easiest (and hardest) to find somewhere to play.

115 scorable cities in Arizona.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Cave Creek	8.4	72
2	Prescott	8.1	163
3	Williams	8.0	17
4	Page	7.8	33
5	Cottonwood	7.8	32
6	Flagstaff	7.7	215
7	Sedona	7.7	125
8	Show Low	7.7	42
9	Litchfield Park	7.7	32
10	Prescott Valley	7.5	69
11	Payson	7.4	50
12	Tempe	7.3	669
13	Lake Havasu City	7.3	139
14	Kingman	7.3	78
15	Fountain Hills	7.3	75
16	Anthem	7.3	42
17	Mesa	7.2	992
18	Tucson	7.1	1261
19	Wickenburg	7.1	31
20	Camp Verde	7.1	26
21	Scottsdale	7.0	1513
22	Casa Grande	7.0	80
23	Willcox	7.0	12
24	Gilbert	6.9	605
25	Peoria	6.9	319
26	Yuma	6.9	196
27	Sierra Vista	6.9	98
28	Marana	6.9	77
29	Goodyear	6.8	173
30	Queen Creek	6.8	138
31	Green Valley	6.8	53
32	Chino Valley	6.8	23
33	Winslow	6.8	20
34	Benson	6.8	16
35	Surprise	6.6	197
36	Sun City West	6.6	36
37	Globe	6.6	17
38	Phoenix	6.4	2544
39	Oro Valley	6.4	104
40	Holbrook	6.4	11
41	Glendale	6.3	396
42	Avondale	6.3	123
43	Bullhead City	6.3	62
44	Nogales	6.3	38
45	Fort Mohave	6.3	24
46	Buckeye	6.2	73
47	Apache Junction	6.2	53
48	Safford	6.2	24
49	Chandler	6.1	665
50	El Mirage	6.1	22
51	Vail	6.0	17
52	Oracle	6.0	11
53	Maricopa	5.9	88
54	San Tan Valley	5.9	52
55	Snowflake	5.9	9
56	Somerton	5.8	13
57	Patagonia	5.8	6
58	Thatcher	5.7	16
59	Wellton	5.6	10
60	Star Valley	5.6	7
61	Eloy	5.5	18
62	Bisbee	5.5	13
63	Miami	5.5	6
64	Casas Adobes	5.4	42
65	Tubac	5.4	7
66	Sun City	5.3	51
67	Paradise Valley	5.3	33
68	Tolleson	5.3	17
69	Rio Verde	5.3	8
70	Carefree	5.2	16
71	Douglas	5.2	15
72	Sahuarita	5.1	29
73	Coolidge	5.1	16
74	Village of Oak Creek (Big Park)	5.1	12
75	New River	5.0	22
76	Pinetop-Lakeside	5.0	12
77	Morenci	5.0	4
78	Catalina Foothills	4.9	44
79	Gold Canyon	4.9	21
80	Bagdad	4.9	6
81	Florence	4.8	17
82	Fortuna Foothills	4.7	21
83	Rio Rico	4.7	9
84	Springerville	4.6	6
85	Saddlebrooke	4.5	14
86	Parker	4.5	13
87	Sun Lakes	4.3	19
88	Flowing Wells	4.3	8
89	Superior	4.1	6
90	Parker Strip	4.1	5
91	Catalina	4.0	9
92	San Luis	3.9	10
93	Ajo	3.9	6
94	St. Johns	3.9	4
95	Guadalupe	3.8	3
96	Wittmann	3.7	4
97	Taylor	3.7	4
98	Sierra Vista Southeast	3.6	13
99	Youngtown	3.5	6
100	Kearny	3.2	5

How do we calculate the score?

Variety (25%) — how many different sports the city covers.
Quality (20%) — richness of each center's information.
Activity (20%) — real user interest over the last 30 days.
Scale (15%) — number of centers in the city.
Density (10%) — centers per resident (dampened).
Courts (10%) — total capacity: number of courts.

Each section is measured as a percentile against the other cities in the United States and combined into the final score, on a 0-10 scale. Variety and density are measured with a uniform instrument (only sources with homogeneous national coverage) so that no city is favored by having a more complete open catalog. We only score cities with population data and a presence in those sources.