11 Most Creative Cities in The World

Thomas Vato
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
3 min readOct 14, 2022

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If you’re looking for a city with plenty of culture and creativity, look no further than the 11 cities on this list. Plenty of metropolises are known for their art museums, theatres, and vibrant street life. Creative people, from musicians to artists to fashion designers. If you’re looking for a city with a thriving art scene, don’t miss out on these amazing ones!

Worth noting, this article is mostly the citation of the inkifi.com work. So this article aims to share the knowledge produced outside to reflect the rankings based on data. It’s not exactly clear when this was done. But this article provides a quick snapshot of it.

What’s important is that some cities can be more creative than others by a given creative output.

For example,

According to the given data, Paris will come second to none by the sheer number of monuments and statues in the city. However, when we compare by the number of music artists, Paris will be miles behind New York City and London. So to find the most balanced comparison, we will include several metrics that build the overall score in a realm that displays creativity. So which cities are the most creative?

Overall data-driven most creative cities ranking

From

It shows that overall the most creative cities

Top 5:

Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, London, Tel Aviv.

Top 5–11th:

New York City, Milan, Los Angeles, Miami, Porto, Amsterdam.

How did we get this ranking?

It combines and calculates metrics that signify creative expression per 100 000 people living in a given city.

  • Number of Street Art Instagram Posts
  • Monthly Street Art Searches
  • Number of Hometown Music Artists
  • Number of Art Galleries per sq. miles
  • Number of Theatres per sq. miles
  • Number of Music Clubs (Jazz Clubs, Blues Clubs, Piano Bars, Country & Western Bars) per sq. miles
  • Number of Comedy Clubs per sq. miles
  • Noteworthy Architectural Buildings per sq. miles
  • Number of Monuments & Statues per sq. miles

As we have 9 different categories that comprise the final ranking, we can see the top 5 of each.

Top 5 cities by Street Art Instagram Posts

Paris — 824,602

London — 463,109

New York City — 428,191

Melbourne — 300,802

Berlin — 215,629

Top 5 cities by Street Art Searches

Penang Island — 6,800

Paris — 5,100

Berlin — 3,200

London — 2,400

Melbourne — 2,200

Top 5 cities by Hometown Music Artists

New York City — 100

London — 75

Los Angeles — 72

Chicago — 28

San Francisco — 13

Top 5 cities by Art Galleries per sq. miles

Tel Aviv — 5.13

Paris — 4.30

Barcelona — 1.48

Porto — 1.44

Milan — 1.38

Top 5 cities by Theatres per sq. miles

Paris — 3.59

Barcelona — 1.17

Buenos Aires City — 1.05

Tel Aviv — 0.70

Milan — 0.70

Top 5 cities by Music Clubs (Jazz Clubs, Blues Clubs, Piano Bars, Country & Western Bars) per sq. miles

Paris — 1.15

Barcelona — 0.56

Porto — 0.38

Lisbon — 0.31

Tel Aviv — 0.30

Top 5 cities by Comedy Clubs per sq. miles

Dublin — 0.65

Paris — 0.59

Vancouver — 0.23

Barcelona — 0.15

London — 0.14

Top 5 cities by Noteworthy Architectural Buildings per sq. miles

Barcelona — 4.21

Milan — 4.15

Paris — 1.99

Porto — 1.88

Florence — 1.67

Top 5 cities by Monuments & Statues per sq. miles

Paris — 18.68

Lisbon — 3.57

Barcelona — 3.09

Porto — 2.25

Amsterdam — 1.83

Data Sources

  • Instagram
  • Ahrefs
  • YouGov
  • TripAdvisor
  • Wikipedia
  • Euromonitor

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Full work — https://inkifi.com/most-creative-cities/

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