People For Bikes Announces 2025 City Rankings

People For Bikes creates an annual, data-driven analysis noting how cities are responding to the needs of cyclists. The City Ratings evaluate almost 3,000 cities around the United States. Ratings are divided into small, medium and large sized cities. Midwestern cities received high rankings in each segment.
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2025’s Best Cities for Bicycling

Small U.S. Cities
(<50,000 population)

Mackinac Island, Michigan

Provincetown, Massachusetts

Sauk City, Wisconsin

Springdale, Utah

Washburn, Wisconsin

Fayette, Missouri

Murdock, Nebraska

Fort Yates, North Dakota

Crested Butte, Colorado

Perrysville, Ohio

Medium U.S. Cities
(50,000–300,000 population)

Davis, California

Berkeley, California

Corvallis, Oregon

Boulder, Colorado

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ankeny, Iowa

Hoboken, New Jersey

La Crosse, Wisconsin: 65

Anchorage, Alaska

Ames, Iowa

Large U.S. Cities
(>300,000 population)

Brooklyn, New York

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Seattle, Washington

Queens, New York

San Francisco, California

St. Paul, Minnesota

Portland, Oregon

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C.

Manhattan, New York