Press & Media
Everything needed to cover WellPlaced: liftable boilerplate, dated findings computed from the current dataset, logo files, embeddable scorecards, and data-use terms. Press contact: hello@wellplaced.live.
Boilerplate
WellPlaced (wellplaced.live) is a city-livability index scoring 12,377 cities on 29 metrics — cost of living, safety, healthcare, housing, transport, climate, taxes and more — built exclusively on institutional data from World Bank, WHO, OECD, UNESCO, UNODC, Eurostat, Ookla Speedtest, OpenAQ, and GDELT. Nothing is crowdsourced: every score traces to a named source, each city carries a visible A–E data-confidence grade, scores are recomputed monthly with public snapshots, and a conflict/safety layer updates daily. No one can pay to change a score.
Key findings — 2026-09-09 snapshot
Each line is computed from the live dataset on every build; quote them verbatim with the date.
- As of the 2026-09-09 snapshot, Singapore is the most livable city measured, scoring 85/100 across 29 metrics.
- The global top 10 all score between 83 and 85 out of 100.
- No US city ranks in the global top 10; the highest-ranked US city is New York City at 78/100.
- The safest city measured is also Singapore, with a safety score of 96/100.
- Berlin (Germany) is the best-value major city — 85/100 livability at below-average cost.
Fast facts
Using the data in your story
Free for editorial use with attribution — cite "WellPlaced" and link the relevant page. Custom cuts (a ranking for your metro, a country deep-dive, historical snapshots) are usually a same-week turnaround: ask us. Commercial and product use is covered by data licensing. Licensing buys the data, never the methodology — no one can pay to change a score.
Embed a live scorecard
Badges render any city's current score and stay up to date with every data refresh:
<a href="https://wellplaced.live/city/singapore-singapore"><img src="https://wellplaced.live/badge/singapore-singapore.svg" width="340" height="110" alt="Singapore livability score — WellPlaced"/></a>
Swap the slug for any city: /badge/<city>-<country>.svg
Open data
Ready-to-use excerpts of the index — free for any use with attribution to WellPlaced (link wellplaced.live). Free-tier metrics only, data-confidence grade included per city; the full 29-metric dataset is covered by licensing. Stable URLs; each row carries its snapshot date.
- Top 100 cities (CSV) — the global ranking: well-measured (grade A–B) cities, 200k+ population, active conflict zones excluded.
- US cities (CSV) — every US city with 100k+ population, ranked, all grades shown.
- Country index (CSV) — average city livability by country (countries with 3+ ranked cities) with each country's top city.
Logos & artwork
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Interviews & data requests
WellPlaced can supply rankings, comparisons, and methodology background for stories on cost of living, relocation, remote work, and quality of life. Founder interviews available on request.
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