2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Houston, TX vs Amherst, NY

#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

#2 The Best Cities to Relocate to in America

#3 Gloomiest Places in America

#6 Most Energetic Cities

#6 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Large Metros)

#7 Hypertension Hot Spots

#8 Top 10 Cities to Beat the Heat

#8 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#12 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#18 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#19 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#21 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#23 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#23 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#28 The Most Single Cities

#28 2005 High Gas Prices

#31 America’s Least Manly Cities

#31 Best Baseball Cities

#32 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#32 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#34 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#35 America’s Manliest Cities

#36 Best Block Party Places

#39 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#46 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

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

#47 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#47 Failure To Lunch

#49 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#53 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

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

#86 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#181 Best Green Cities

#205 2005 Best Places to Live

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

Safe and friendly town. You are 20 minutes away from anywhere in  More

Amherst is a safe suburban area where you can live without having to worry about the crime that may occur in Buffalo and in parts of any city in the United  More

Really glad I found this site as, I haven't found it easy to find honest data on crime rate in our cities. Thanx for the service, Ada  More