These Cities In Kentucky Are Among The Most Caring Cities In The Nation

Caring means displaying kindness and concern for others.

This can be expressed in many ways- from reaching out a helping hand to a friend in need and donating toys to children during the holidays to staying by someone's side as they fight an illness too strong for medication.

Wallethub stated that Americans have showed their care through charitable donations more and more.

The site recently released a list of the most caring cities in the nation and a couple of Kentucky cities made the list.

The highest-placing Kentucky city was Lexington at number 30. Lexington came in first overall for 'highest percentage of sheltered homeless persons'.

Louisville wasn't far behind at number 37.

According to the list, Boston, Massachusetts is the most caring city in the nation followed by Madison, Wisconsin in second and New York, New York in third.

To determine the list, Wallethub compared the 100 most populated cities across three dimensions: caring for the community, caring for the vulnerable, and caring in the workforce.

Those three dimensions were then evaluated using 39 relevant metrics including violent crime rate, caring for the environment, child poverty rate, disability-friendliness of employers, paramedics per capita, and firefighters per capita.

To see the full list, click here.

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