--- title: Fort Collins, Colorado Is America’s Most Satisfied City description: The good people of Fort Collins, Colorado, are the most satisfied with their city canonical: https://time.com/59520/most-satisfied-city-fort-collins-colorado/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-11T15:11:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:08.094Z og:title: Fort Collins, Colorado Is America’s Most Satisfied City og:description: The good people of Fort Collins, Colorado, are the most satisfied with their city og:url: https://time.com/59520/most-satisfied-city-fort-collins-colorado/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc39a28dad7d8f2f3/69868a59d0b6f29250303c31/484146339.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1333 og:image:height: 750 og:image:alt: American Suburban Houses og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fort Collins, Colorado Is America’s Most Satisfied City twitter:description: The good people of Fort Collins, Colorado, are the most satisfied with their city twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc39a28dad7d8f2f3/69868a59d0b6f29250303c31/484146339.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fort Collins, Colorado Is America's Most Satisfied City > Sponsored content. 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Fort Collins has been a consistent high performer in the index since Gallup started asking the question in 2008\. The second most satisfied metro area in the country is San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles in California. Across the United States, 85 percent of Americans say they are [satisfied](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168485/city-satisfaction-highest-fort-collins-loveland-colo.aspx) with the city they live in and a majority of respondents believe their community is on the up and up. The city with the fewest satisfied people in America, according to Gallup’s survey of “at least 300 adults” in each of the 189 metropolitan areas it scoured, is Rockford, Ill., followed by Stockton, Calif., Bakersfield, Calif., and Flint, Mich. In Rockford, only 39.7% of residents said the city was getting better. Memphis, Tenn. is America’s real Cinderella story — only 68.8% said they were satisfied with the city in 2008, the lowest satisfaction level in the country at the time. 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