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Boston Ranked Fourth Most Pest-Infested City in America

Author Beasley Media Editorial

Rats and cockroaches and cockroaches and rats, oh my! New York pest company Doctor Sniffs is out with their yearly creepy crawly report about pests in the U.S. and this year the results aren’t so happy happy for Boston.

Doctor Sniffs is a pretty cool company. They actually use trained dogs to help detect whether or not you have a bed bug problem. Want to see what that process is like? Ok, sure:

Now back to their findings, yuck. Doctor Sniffs focuses on rat and cockroach sightings to determine the pestiest cities of them all. I love that they count up the “sightings” like we’re talking about alien life-forms or something. It makes me feel more X-Files and less ewwwwwwwww so I’m here for it.

Atlanta topped this year’s pestiest list with a combined pest sighting rate of 165.9 per 100,000 residents. The breakdown: 115.3 rat sightings and a staggering 712.3 cockroach sightings, all in 2021. *shudder*

In second place, Miami had a combined pest sighting rate of 141 per 100,000 residents. The breakdown: 80.6 rat sightings and 543.1 cockroach sightings, all in one year. *shudder again*

Washington, D.C. ranks third in the yearly study, with a combined sighting rate of 83.7 per 100,000 residents. The breakdown: 348.6 rat sightings and 228.5 cockroach sightings. *sure I’ll shudder again just to take us home to Boston*

Boston occupies the fourth spot on this year’s nasty little countdown, with a combined pest sighting rate of 72.8 per 100,000 residents. Our breakdown: 417.8 rat sightings and 74.4 cockroach sightings. Soooo… what you’re saying is we’re way more ratty than roachy? Seems valid.

But there is some good news for us. While Boston has been branded as “very pesty” we’re also “very safe.”

A new Gallop poll compared the 16 biggest cities in the United States on the metric of public opinion of safety. So to be clear, Boston and Dallas aren’t necessarily the safest big cities in the country but according to the Gallop poll they are considered the safest by Americans.

Americans Rate Boston & Dallas Safest in the US

  • #4 Safest Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    LAS VEGAS
    #4 Safest
    % who said the city is safe: 61%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 36%

  • #3 Safest Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    SEATTLE
    #3 Safest
    % who said the city is safe: 63%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 35%

  • #2 Safest Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    BOSTON
    #2 Safest
    % who said the city is safe: 72%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 25%

  • #1 Safest Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    DALLAS
    #1 Safest
    % who said the city is safe: 74%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 25%

  • #4 LEAST Safe Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    NEW YORK
    #4 LEAST Safe
    % who said the city is safe: 41%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 57%

  • #3 LEAST Safe Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    LOS ANGELES
    #3 LEAST Safe
    % who said the city is safe: 41%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 58%

  • #2 LEAST Safe Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    CHICAGO
    #2 LEAST Safe
    % who said the city is safe: 27%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 70%

  • #1 LEAST Safe Big City in the US (according to Gallop poll 2023)

    DETROIT
    #1 LEAST Safe
    % who said the city is safe: 26%
    % who said the city is UNsafe: 73%

Jackson Blue has been on Boston airwaves for over 20 years. He is a foodie family person with a passion for having fun forever. Jackson likes to write about food, restaurants, Massachusetts and Boston happenings.

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