Best cities for sports in South Carolina

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

187 scorable cities in South Carolina.

#	City	Score /10	Centers
1	Aiken	8.6	146
2	Mount Pleasant	8.2	247
3	Surfside Beach	8.1	34
4	Inman	8.1	29
5	Myrtle Beach	7.8	516
6	Lexington	7.8	196
7	Beaufort	7.8	92
8	Little River	7.8	71
9	Lancaster	7.8	46
10	North Myrtle Beach	7.6	154
11	Irmo	7.6	90
12	Cayce	7.6	45
13	Hartsville	7.6	31
14	Fort Mill	7.5	171
15	Simpsonville	7.4	143
16	Greer	7.4	140
17	Sumter	7.4	108
18	Taylors	7.4	79
19	Camden	7.4	43
20	Fripp Island	7.4	14
21	Charleston	7.3	573
22	Greenville	7.3	544
23	Murrells Inlet	7.3	83
24	Seneca	7.3	56
25	Hilton Head Island	7.2	309
26	Rock Hill	7.2	209
27	Easley	7.2	80
28	Blythewood	7.2	31
29	Columbia	7.1	594
30	Summerville	7.1	224
31	North Charleston	7.1	214
32	Bluffton	7.1	166
33	Florence	7.1	120
34	Goose Creek	7.1	93
35	Conway	7.1	93
36	Mauldin	7.1	57
37	Moncks Corner	7.1	38
38	Gaffney	7.1	36
39	Kershaw	7.1	16
40	Hanahan	7.0	33
41	Lake Wylie	7.0	27
42	Spartanburg	6.8	216
43	Anderson	6.8	156
44	Clemson	6.8	58
45	Litchfield Beach	6.8	22
46	Dillon	6.8	16
47	Greenwood	6.7	68
48	Georgetown	6.7	44
49	Pendleton	6.7	21
50	West Columbia	6.6	96
51	Travelers Rest	6.6	41
52	Pickens	6.6	29
53	Chester	6.6	16
54	Loris	6.6	13
55	Clover	6.5	31
56	Kiawah Island	6.5	26
57	Prosperity	6.5	10
58	North Augusta	6.4	59
59	Folly Beach	6.4	11
60	Chapin	6.3	36
61	Tega Cay	6.3	17
62	Walterboro	6.2	18
63	Lake Murray of Richland	6.2	14
64	Isle of Palms	6.1	41
65	Seabrook Island	6.1	16
66	Ridgeland	6.0	20
67	Daufuskie Island	6.0	16
68	Union	6.0	14
69	Ninety Six	6.0	13
70	Orangeburg	5.9	40
71	Duncan	5.9	26
72	Landrum	5.9	19
73	Clinton	5.9	18
74	Newberry	5.8	33
75	Piedmont	5.8	26
76	Wade Hampton	5.8	26
77	Lugoff	5.8	18
78	Fountain Inn	5.7	28
79	York	5.7	20
80	Garden City	5.7	16
81	Darlington	5.6	23
82	Woodruff	5.6	19
83	Williamston	5.6	13
84	Liberty	5.6	12
85	James Island	5.6	11
86	Red Bank	5.6	8
87	Springdale	5.6	5
88	Central	5.5	32
89	Seven Oaks	5.5	11
90	Edgefield	5.5	10
91	Lake City	5.5	9
92	Powdersville	5.4	12
93	Boiling Springs	5.3	41
94	Socastee	5.3	15
95	Cheraw	5.3	12
96	Bennettsville	5.3	12
97	Mullins	5.3	8
98	Aynor	5.3	8
99	Belton	5.2	16
100	Westminster	5.2	14

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.