Best cities for sports in Kentucky

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

185 scorable cities in Kentucky.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Bowling Green	8.6	228
2	Lexington-Fayette urban county	8.3	440
3	Owensboro	8.2	135
4	Paducah	8.2	132
5	Nicholasville	8.2	78
6	Berea	8.2	48
7	Georgetown	8.1	84
8	Henderson	7.9	63
9	London	7.8	44
10	Elizabethtown	7.7	101
11	Bardstown	7.7	46
12	Richmond	7.6	113
13	Prospect	7.6	44
14	Winchester	7.6	39
15	Brandenburg	7.6	27
16	Louisville/Jefferson County metro government	7.5	286
17	Florence	7.5	140
18	Murray	7.5	64
19	Hopkinsville	7.5	51
20	Versailles	7.4	44
21	Madisonville	7.4	43
22	Calvert City	7.4	14
23	Newport	7.3	63
24	Corbin	7.3	31
25	La Grange	7.3	27
26	Watterson Park	7.3	8
27	Frankfort	7.1	77
28	Middletown	7.1	46
29	Glasgow	7.1	38
30	Pikeville	7.1	29
31	Jeffersontown	7.0	79
32	Covington	7.0	77
33	Erlanger	6.9	57
34	Morehead	6.9	39
35	Somerset	6.8	72
36	Mount Sterling	6.8	24
37	Louisa	6.8	12
38	Prestonsburg	6.7	20
39	Paris	6.6	44
40	Burlington	6.6	37
41	Shelbyville	6.6	37
42	Mayfield	6.6	31
43	Highland Heights	6.6	20
44	Paintsville	6.6	18
45	Russell Springs	6.6	15
46	Middlesborough	6.6	13
47	Olive Hill	6.6	11
48	Danville	6.5	53
49	Fort Thomas	6.5	33
50	Ashland	6.4	53
51	Princeton	6.4	22
52	Eddyville	6.4	16
53	West Liberty	6.4	9
54	Alexandria	6.3	27
55	Union	6.3	26
56	Simpsonville	6.3	12
57	Greenup	6.3	6
58	Mount Washington	6.2	31
59	Radcliff	6.2	27
60	Flemingsburg	6.2	15
61	Shepherdsville	6.1	29
62	Cynthiana	6.1	18
63	Northfield	6.1	9
64	Fort Knox	6.0	29
65	Lawrenceburg	6.0	21
66	Midway	6.0	16
67	Burnside	6.0	9
68	Maysville	5.9	31
69	Russellville	5.9	18
70	Hillview	5.9	13
71	Buckner	5.9	11
72	Campbellsville	5.7	35
73	Williamsburg	5.7	19
74	Walton	5.7	17
75	Crestview Hills	5.7	16
76	Wilder	5.7	11
77	Burkesville	5.7	6
78	Franklin	5.6	25
79	Benton	5.6	24
80	Lyndon	5.6	15
81	Hodgenville	5.6	10
82	St. Matthews	5.5	34
83	Crestwood	5.5	23
84	Flatwoods	5.5	14
85	Stanton	5.5	12
86	Grayson	5.4	20
87	Lebanon	5.4	14
88	Leitchfield	5.4	13
89	Dry Ridge	5.4	13
90	Crescent Springs	5.4	11
91	Barbourville	5.4	11
92	Kuttawa	5.4	6
93	Independence	5.3	41
94	Fort Mitchell	5.3	24
95	Hebron	5.3	18
96	Hurstbourne	5.3	7
97	Hazard	5.2	17
98	Fort Wright	5.2	15
99	Cadiz	5.1	9
100	La Center	5.1	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.