This Texas City Is The Dirtiest In US

If you think that all the cities in a developed country like the US are clean and hygienic, then this is not true. There is a US city that is known for its unclean and unhygienic atmosphere. It is said that insects keep crawling in houses, and it is so bad that one can get sick even by breathing in the air. In a recent report, it was named one of the dirtiest cities in the US.

Lawnstarter conducted a survey in 2023 in which over 150 of the major cities in the United States were divided into four categories. The groups took into account factors such as pollution, living conditions, infrastructure, and customer satisfaction. The city with the highest average score was rated as the ‘dirtiest’, while the city with the lowest average score was rated as the ‘cleanest’.

Thus, according to the survey, the dirtiest city in the US is Houston, Texas, which has been rated as the dirtiest city. Houston got the honour for its terrible air quality, infrastructure problems, and the staggering number of insects that infest homes.

As per reports, Houston has the worst cockroach problem in the country, with the insect crawling around the city. Many people who are residents here shared that living in these conditions had become normal for them now.

In 2023, residents of the Cranbrook Forest Apartments in north Houston said they were fed up with rats and cockroaches, as well as other problems. The city has consistently violated federal ozone pollution rules. Various reports share the ranking of widespread industrial and fossil fuel use. The first photographs from NASA’s space-based pollution monitoring revealed the deadly gas above Houston in 2023. The images showed a strong presence of harmful nitrogen dioxide in the city.

During the late 1970s, Houston had a population boom as people from the Rust Belt states moved to Texas in large numbers. The new immigrants arrived in search of various job possibilities in the petroleum business, which had opened up as a result of the Arab oil embargo. With the increase in professional jobs, Houston has become a destination for many college-educated people, most recently African-Americans in a reverse Great Migration from northern areas.