The best city of nation pizza? See which NY City took first place and which others have cut

Rochester was appointed Best Pizza City in the country and was one of the four New York communities to rank in the Top 10, according to a recent study. The classification of the city of Flower City exceeded Denver, who won first place on the list of pizza enthusiasts in 2024, and Detroit, which won two consecutive titles in 2023 and 2022. Everyone has a favorite Pizza style, sprinkled with its favorite garnish, but the 2025 ranking was determined by intelligent property.

How did New York cities classified?

The cities of New York behaved well in the 2025 survey, with four cities in the first 10 and six in the top 35. Respondents also chose New York as a high level of pizza, 77% saying that this is a pizza state among the first five against 56% for Illinois and 45% for California.

Here is where the cities of the State Empire have ranked:

Rochester Ny takes first place

Rochester, New York, obtained its place as “Pizza Capital of America” ​​following one of the highest scores of pizza passion of 98 out of 100, a high number of pizza restaurants per inhabitant (25 per 100,000 residents) and high -speed side ratings for pizzerias (4.11 out of 5).

According to the study, Rochester is also “an ideal place to try the clearly delicious western pizza style”. The western New York pizza has a thicker and soft crust, a subtly sweeter sauce and the pepperoni “cup and coal”, which curls up in small cups in drying out during cooking, depending on the report.

A large rochester cheese pizza costs an average of $ 17.04, or about 5.4% below the national average of $ 18.02.

Buffalo NY gets a perfect pizza passion score

No city is more serious about his pizza than Buffalo, who obtained a score of Pizza’s Perfect Passion, according to the report. Buffalo, who ranked fourth on the list, seems to love his pizza almost as much as his homonymous wings, and the evidence is more than simple online. There are 30 pizzas in Buffalo per 100,000 residents, about 2.5 times the national average of 12.4. A large cheese pizza in Buffalo costs an average of $ 22.31, almost 24% more than the national average for a large cheese pizza.

And New York City?

There is no American city more synonymous with pizza than the Big Apple. But the cost per pie and an average number of pizzerias per capita (12.3 per 100,000 residents) prevented New York from ranking better than the eighth. New York style pizza is the place where it is with large hand pies with a distinctive combination of a substantial crust and a slim and foldable interior. A large pizza of medium cheese in New York costs $ 26, about 44% more than the national average for the same pie.

How were the rankings determined?

The data from this study was obtained from the American census, the American Community Survey, Yelp and more than 1,000 Pizza restaurant websites, according to Selver Real Estate. He also planned a survey of 2,000 American adults who discussed their pizza preferences.

The date has been weighted as follows:

• Reputation of pizza (2,000 American survey): 43%

• Pizza passion (analysis of Google research trends): 27%

• Availability of pizza (analysis of pizza restaurants): 20% (8% of the pizza restaurants and 12% of dysf notes)

• Affected pizza affordability (cost analysis): 10% (4% cheese pizza prices, 4% pizza prices at the pepperoni and 2% affordability on median household income)

The scores were indexed on a scale of 0 to 100, where 100 indicates the best city of pizza in all of these measures, and 0 indicates a worst theoretical city of pizza.

This article originally appeared on Rockland / Westchester Journal News: Nation’s Best Pizza City? See which NY City took first place