Best cities for sports in Indiana

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

242 scorable cities in Indiana.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Warsaw	8.3	64
2	Clarksville	8.2	65
3	Richmond	7.9	87
4	Monticello	7.8	33
5	Westfield	7.6	110
6	Columbia City	7.6	36
7	Syracuse	7.6	22
8	Bristol	7.6	11
9	Crown Point	7.5	111
10	Goshen	7.5	82
11	Madison	7.5	54
12	La Porte	7.5	52
13	Plymouth	7.5	49
14	Greencastle	7.5	40
15	Carmel	7.4	381
16	Kokomo	7.4	133
17	Columbus	7.4	122
18	Portage	7.4	66
19	Crawfordsville	7.4	45
20	Angola	7.4	33
21	Batesville	7.4	24
22	Evansville	7.3	352
23	Hobart	7.3	58
24	Jasper	7.3	55
25	Vincennes	7.3	53
26	Newburgh	7.3	45
27	Lawrenceburg	7.3	38
28	Notre Dame	7.3	32
29	Linton	7.3	19
30	Fort Wayne	7.2	626
31	Bloomington	7.2	290
32	Terre Haute	7.2	199
33	Brownsburg	7.2	104
34	Danville	7.2	38
35	New Castle	7.2	35
36	Fishers	7.1	251
37	Noblesville	7.1	225
38	Muncie	7.1	137
39	Avon	7.1	71
40	Bedford	7.1	47
41	Michigan City	7.1	42
42	Chesterton	7.1	41
43	Auburn	7.1	37
44	Lafayette	7.0	148
45	Zionsville	7.0	108
46	Plainfield	7.0	76
47	Rochester	7.0	21
48	Middlebury	7.0	12
49	Nashville	7.0	11
50	South Bend	6.9	179
51	Franklin	6.9	75
52	Logansport	6.9	49
53	Greensburg	6.9	27
54	North Vernon	6.9	18
55	Indianapolis	6.8	1784
56	Anderson	6.8	124
57	New Albany	6.8	83
58	Tipton	6.8	28
59	Bluffton	6.8	26
60	North Manchester	6.8	10
61	Elkhart	6.7	146
62	Pendleton	6.7	34
63	Marion	6.7	29
64	Peru	6.7	29
65	Frankfort	6.7	27
66	Corydon	6.7	25
67	Connersville	6.7	22
68	Boonville	6.7	21
69	Loogootee	6.7	15
70	Portland	6.7	14
71	French Lick	6.7	12
72	Rising Sun	6.7	12
73	Winona Lake	6.7	10
74	Valparaiso	6.6	145
75	West Lafayette	6.6	129
76	Greenfield	6.6	55
77	Lawrence	6.6	46
78	Sellersburg	6.6	21
79	Aurora	6.6	17
80	Rensselaer	6.6	17
81	Bremen	6.6	11
82	Kendallville	6.5	23
83	Greendale	6.5	8
84	Mishawaka	6.4	108
85	Jeffersonville	6.4	78
86	Hammond	6.4	75
87	Granger	6.4	49
88	Seymour	6.4	44
89	Bargersville	6.4	22
90	Scottsburg	6.4	19
91	DeMotte	6.4	18
92	Hartford City	6.4	15
93	Garrett	6.4	13
94	Knightstown	6.4	9
95	Greenwood	6.3	167
96	Lebanon	6.3	48
97	Wabash	6.3	38
98	Martinsville	6.3	38
99	Decatur	6.3	35
100	Lowell	6.3	24

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.