Survey Reveals America's Least Neighborly Cities: Los Angeles and Miami Top the List.
Los Angeles and Riverside have some of the lowest rates of volunteerism among the nation's largest cities, according to a new study from AmeriCorps and the U.S. Census Bureau. The study ranked 12 metro areas based on formal volunteering and informal helping, with Riverside ranking dead last in formal volunteering and Los Angeles third from the bottom. Despite the low marks, Angelenos still give back to their community in large numbers and dollars, with over 1.5 million formal volunteers contributing 66.4 million hours of service through organizations worth an estimated $2.4 billion in 2021.