Best cities for sports in Idaho

BookrGo Best Sport Cities ranking: we rank the cities of Idaho 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.

87 scorable cities in Idaho.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Pocatello	8.2	120
2	Sandpoint	8.1	54
3	McCall	8.1	35
4	Coeur d'Alene	8.0	162
5	Moscow	7.9	51
6	Lewiston	7.8	61
7	Sun Valley	7.8	32
8	Idaho Falls	7.7	132
9	Rexburg	7.6	69
10	Hailey	7.6	38
11	Boise City	7.4	329
12	Twin Falls	7.3	100
13	Caldwell	7.2	63
14	Mountain Home	7.2	35
15	Eagle	7.1	104
16	Kamiah	7.1	7
17	Driggs	7.0	28
18	Kellogg	7.0	12
19	Nampa	6.9	150
20	Garden City	6.9	51
21	Ketchum	6.9	31
22	Burley	6.9	31
23	Emmett	6.9	26
24	Ponderay	6.9	10
25	Rigby	6.8	26
26	Meridian	6.7	236
27	Post Falls	6.7	78
28	Hayden	6.5	43
29	Kuna	6.5	38
30	Salmon	6.5	18
31	Grangeville	6.5	11
32	Challis	6.5	9
33	Ammon	6.4	34
34	Weiser	6.3	20
35	Jerome	6.3	18
36	Middleton	6.2	16
37	Dalton Gardens	6.0	13
38	Malad City	6.0	6
39	Blackfoot	5.9	26
40	Cascade	5.9	5
41	Montpelier	5.8	10
42	Bonners Ferry	5.8	8
43	Preston	5.7	18
44	Buhl	5.7	10
45	Gooding	5.5	8
46	Rathdrum	5.4	14
47	Homedale	5.4	8
48	Star	5.3	23
49	Chubbuck	5.3	22
50	Victor	5.3	17
51	Fruitland	5.3	14
52	Rupert	5.3	13
53	Hayden Lake	5.2	5
54	Osburn	5.0	3
55	Payette	4.9	13
56	Potlatch	4.9	3
57	Soda Springs	4.8	9
58	Wallace	4.8	4
59	Grace	4.7	4
60	Ashton	4.6	5
61	Orofino	4.6	4
62	Mountain Home AFB	4.5	5
63	Oakley	4.5	2
64	Weston	4.5	2
65	Shelley	4.4	5
66	Bellevue	4.4	5
67	Parma	4.4	4
68	American Falls	4.3	10
69	Kimberly	4.3	7
70	Priest River	4.3	3
71	Craigmont	4.2	2
72	St. Anthony	4.1	5
73	Hagerman	4.1	4
74	Inkom	4.1	2
75	Marsing	4.0	3
76	Spirit Lake	3.8	4
77	Wendell	3.7	3
78	Council	3.5	3
79	Kooskia	3.5	3
80	New Plymouth	3.3	5
81	Clark Fork	3.3	2
82	Shoshone	3.1	5
83	Oldtown	3.1	2
84	Lapwai	2.7	3
85	Menan	2.4	3
86	Athol	1.9	2
87	Avimor	1.3	2

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.