Top 100 drunkest cities

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Is your city sloshed? Find out with our statistical sobriety checkpoint .

Based on every measure of dangerous drinking, including the body count caused by booze-fueled car crashes (Fatality Analysis Reporting System), the number of arrests made for driving under the influence (FBI), the number of people who admit to binge drinking in the last month (CDC), and the severity of DUI penalties (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety).

Here are the top 10:

  1. Drunk01Fresno, CA
  2. Reno, NV
  3. Billings, MT
  4. Riverside, CA
  5. Austin, TX
  6. St. Louis, MO
  7. San Antonio, TX
  8. Lubbock, TX
  9. Tucson, AZ
  10. Bakersfield, CA

My city made number 6 on the list.

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27 thoughts on “Top 100 drunkest cities”

  1. number 1 and 10 are pretty much the same place.. its a navy dry dock station.. I was stationed there and can say up it deserves it place on the list!

  2. This is very poor journalism. DUI arrests have very little correlation with how many people are getting drunk. I can pretty much guarantee you that Las Vegas has more drunk people in it than Reno, the difference is that most people in Vegas don’t get pulled over because most people who get drunk in Vegas take a taxi. The same goes, of course, for many other large cities that should have been at the top of the list. Beware of lists like these, as their methodology may be unsound.
    Another list like this put Fresno as the “dumbest city” as well, based on book sales. They rated “IQ” which is not directly related to book sales, on a scale based on the book sales in different cities. Absolutely rediculous if you ask me. Though I may hold some bias as I am a Fresno resident and journalism student.

  5. We’re too depressed around here to even get drunk. We just sit staring out the window picking our noses, wishing somebody from Riverside or St Louis would buy us a frikkin drink.

  9. No alcohol on Sundays? I’m probably going to be passing through Atlanta on Sunday evening. Hooter’s doesn’t serve beer on Sundays? Say it isn’t so! Say it isn’t so! I’ll have to re-route myself through a decent city.

  11. In reality, probably not very responsible. I’m a social drinker. I throw beer out at home (shuddering at the thought) because it gets stale. But I’ve been known to overindulge a time or two…. or three… or thirteen.

  14. KLAW, Actually he lives in Overland Park KS, which is a suburb of K.C. But he contributed NOTHING to the ranks in this list. He doesn’t drink. I try to make up for him when I do indulge. Drinking for two.

  15. Jonco – Don’t worry man. I got special permission for you to buy a drink on Sunday in Atlanta. Seriously, alcohol sales are permitted in restaurants, bars and at stadiums, just not at beer and liquor stores. Just another strange law in the former “Bible Belt”.

  19. Well, my tentative plan is to leave Sunday morning and spend the night in Atlanta (the half-way point) before going on down to Florida. I’d be up for a cold beverage and a bite to eat. Somewhere close to I-275 I-75 and a decent hotel.

  21. It sounds like this may work out to become a real good time. Jonco, Gary, Richard, Infi, DJ?…..who else? I’m envious, again.

  25. I wish. Need a little more notice. But I sure hope you get to meet infi, Richard and Gene. What a great bunch. I appoint Gary to be my designated drinker. Remember the cameras!

  26. great Jonco just let us know I will buy your meal/drinks too,DAYUM my local celebrity babe is busy right now so you will miss her damn it

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