2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Elmira, NY vs Lancaster, OH

#4 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#13 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)

#25 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#31 Best Green Cities

#54 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#288 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#2 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#3 The Best Cities for Thanksgiving

#3 Failure To Lunch

#6 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#7 Gloomiest Places in America

#7 America’s Manliest Cities

#7 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

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

#10 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#11 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#11 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#11 Most Energetic Cities

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

#13 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#13 America's Top Hygge Cities

#14 Sleepless Cities 2011

#14 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#16 Hypertension Hot Spots

#18 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#19 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#21 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#21 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#22 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#24 Best Block Party Places

#24 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#26 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#26 America’s Least Manly Cities

#27 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

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

#31 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#32 The Most Single Cities

#37 2005 High Gas Prices

#37 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 Best Baseball Cities

#39 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#42 America's Most Playful Cities

#43 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#45 Healthiest Cities

#56 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#57 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#75 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#94 2005 Best Places to Live

#147 Best Green Cities

Elmira looks like the armpit of the earth. What happened? This could be gorgeous and has such potential. Heck, you've got Mark Twain's grave here, in a historic  More

I have been living in elmira for 17 years and it is a great place to live i feel safe almost all the time i run the streets with my friends, go hiking, bike riding there  More

JUST NEEDED TO SAY THAT ELMIRA IS A DISGUSTING HOLE IN THE WORLD AND ITS RUN BY WILD MONKEES THAT ARE RUDE , DISGUSTING , ILLITERATE AND FILTHY PEOPLE THAT SHOW NO  More

We've lived here for 3 years and I've lived in Ohio my entire life. It's probably the best smaller city in the state. A historic town - well maintained and just  More

God gave us two eyes. He did so people would look INTO His world, not AT tiny screens. Even before iPhones visitors were passing by Lancaster's beauty. They'd  More

I grew up here..Lived in Lancaster from when i was 5 till i was 19 and left that crap hole. Columbus is 45 minutes away not 20. trust me i drove it alot becuase there is  More