OVERALL RANKINGS
Top 10
Overall Rankings
This ranking represents the total score tallied by each city across five different literacy categories:Educational attainment; booksellers; newspaper circulation; library resources; and periodicals published. All categories were compared against the city's total population. See "Rank by Category" for more detailed results.
| Rank | Population |
| 1. Minneapolis, MN | 382,618 |
| 2. Seattle, WA | 563,374 |
| 3. Pittsburgh, PA | 334,563 |
| 4. Madison, WI | 208,054 |
| 5. Cincinnati, OH | 331,285 |
| 6. Washington, DC | 572,059 |
| 7. Denver, CO | 554,636 |
| 8. Boston, MA | 589,141 |
| 9. Portland, OR | 529,121 |
| 10. San Francisco, CA | 776,733 |
