2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Ogdensburg, NY vs Newport News, VA

#2 Best Places for Military Retirees

#4 Most Competitive Public Colleges

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

#8 America's Most Playful Cities

#10 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#10 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#17 2005 Best Places to Live

#19 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#21 Best Block Party Places

#24 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#24 Gloomiest Places in America

#28 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#29 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#29 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#29 America's Top Hygge Cities

#30 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#30 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#32 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#32 Sleepless Cities 2011

#33 Best Baseball Cities

#36 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#39 Healthiest Cities

#39 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#40 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#42 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

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

#45 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#45 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#47 2005 High Gas Prices

#47 Stressful Cities 2012

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

#48 Failure To Lunch

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

#49 Most Energetic Cities

#50 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#75 The Most Single Cities

#87 America's Migraine Hot Spots

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

#96 Best Green Cities

Ogdensberg is the closest US municipality to me (about 60 miles away) Seems nice. Too bad this doesn't cover off North  More

Ogdensburg is a small town rich in history located on the banks of the majestic St. Lawrence River. With its low crime rate, low cost of living, low housing prices, and  More

Ogdensburg, N.Y. is an historic community on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. It offers one of upstate New York's largest shoreline parks, a municipal pool, tennis  More

So, let's start with the positives. Newport News Park is gigantic and has archery, disc golf, canoeing, camping, playgrounds, picnic areas, a beautiful reflecting  More

Reading a lot of other reviews here I can agree and understand a lot of the negative sentiment. NPN has some crime. Just about as much as any other place from what I've  More

Its not that bad here. I moved here from the actual city of Chicago and not the suburbs. Believe me I have seen my share of violence. My senior and junior year I had  More