2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Charlotte, NC vs Houston, TX

#1 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#1 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#2 America’s Manliest Cities

#2 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#5 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#7 Most Energetic Cities

#7 2005 High Gas Prices

#8 Most Congested Cities

#9 Best Baseball Cities

#10 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#12 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#12 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#13 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#13 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#16 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#16 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#17 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#18 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#19 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#21 Failure To Lunch

#22 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#23 Hypertension Hot Spots

#23 America’s Least Manly Cities

#23 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#24 Stressful Cities 2012

#24 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#26 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#26 America's Top Hygge Cities

#27 Sleepless Cities 2011

#30 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#30 Best Block Party Places

#31 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#32 Healthiest Cities

#34 Gloomiest Places in America

#35 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#38 America's Most Playful Cities

#40 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#43 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#46 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#65 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#71 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#71 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#74 The Most Single Cities

#272 Best Green Cities

#2 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#4 Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster (Highest Risk)

#4 Riskiest Places for Natural Disasters

#6 Hurricane Hotspots

#9 Most Congested Cities

#9 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#10 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#11 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#13 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#15 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#16 Best Baseball Cities

#16 2005 High Gas Prices

#17 Most Energetic Cities

#17 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#18 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#19 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#20 Best and Worst Airports to make a Connection List

#21 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#21 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#22 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#24 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#24 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#25 Sleepless Cities 2011

#26 Stressful Cities 2012

#29 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#30 Failure To Lunch

#32 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#33 Best Block Party Places

#34 Hypertension Hot Spots

#35 America’s Least Manly Cities

#35 Gloomiest Places in America

#36 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#36 Healthiest Cities

#39 America’s Manliest Cities

#39 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#40 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#40 America's Top Hygge Cities

#41 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#43 America's Most Playful Cities

#44 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#46 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#48 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#72 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#74 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#82 The Most Single Cities

#95 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#96 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#99 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#105 2005 Best Places to Live

#158 2005 Best Places to Live

#248 Best Green Cities

My favorite city to live year round with 4 seasons. We love Charlotte  More

This city has a lot of potential, but it could use some work. For example, it seems to lack things that other cities have. And there is a lack of atmosphere and charm.  More

Very new transplant (~6 weeks) so first impressions and reasons why I moved here: -great year-round weather, if you don't mind humidity-- less hot in summer than TX/AZ  More

I moved to Houston from the San Francisco Bay area in 1991 after college but I have always had family here. Houston is not what you think of when you think of Texas  More

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More

There's definitely lots of jobs/economic opportunity. It's quite racially diverse if that's your thing. Houston has awful urban sprawl. Expect awful traffic. Hot as hell  More