Overall score
Los Angeles is most useful for users comparing creative-economy depth and amenity against affordability, mobility, and climate-exposure trade-offs.
Overall78/100
Affordability56/100
Air quality66/100
Energy80/100
United States / North America
Los Angeles City Intelligence
Los Angeles is a major Pacific-coast metropolis with a globally significant creative economy, large port and logistics base, and active climate-adaptation work. Los Angeles is a north america city of about 13.2M metro in United States. On the composite city-intelligence score, Los Angeles sits around the indexed median (78/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 13.2M metro
Overall city intelligence
Good78/100
Strong creative and innovation profile balanced against affordability and climate exposure.
Creative economy
Globally leading
Film, media, and design ecosystems shape opportunity.
Climate exposure
Heat and wildfire
Heat, drought, and wildfire shape adaptation priorities.
Los Angeles data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 78/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 56/100 | Los Angeles is expensive on housing and central services, partially offset by amenity and labor-market depth. |
| Air Quality | 66/100 | Los Angeles' air-quality profile is shaped by basin geography, traffic, and seasonal wildfire smoke, with long-running policy attention. |
| Energy | 80/100 | Los Angeles benefits from strong solar resource, ambitious state-level transition policy, and active building and transport electrification. |
| Safety | 70/100 | Los Angeles has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts. |
| Internet Speed | 88/100 | Los Angeles delivers fast fiber broadband and dense mobile coverage, supporting media production and a large remote-work community. |
| Climate Risk | 64/100 | Los Angeles carries meaningful climate exposure from heat, drought, wildfire, and coastal pressure, balanced by active state-level adaptation. |
| Resilience | 70/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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Cost of Living in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is expensive on housing and central services, partially offset by amenity and labor-market depth.
Air Quality in Los Angeles
Los Angeles' air-quality profile is shaped by basin geography, traffic, and seasonal wildfire smoke, with long-running policy attention.
Energy in Los Angeles
Los Angeles benefits from strong solar resource, ambitious state-level transition policy, and active building and transport electrification.
Safety in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts.
Internet Speed in Los Angeles
Los Angeles delivers fast fiber broadband and dense mobile coverage, supporting media production and a large remote-work community.
Climate Risk in Los Angeles
Los Angeles carries meaningful climate exposure from heat, drought, wildfire, and coastal pressure, balanced by active state-level adaptation.
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Interpretation
Los Angeles is most useful for users comparing creative-economy depth and amenity against affordability, mobility, and climate-exposure trade-offs. Its standout dimensions are internet speed (88/100) and energy (80/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (56/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 5 institutional references.
Country context is available on the United States country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Los Angeles appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
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Sources
5 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- US Environmental Protection Agency: National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Used where United States city comparisons need air-quality benchmark context.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.