See Why East Grand Rapids Is the Worst Place To Find Love In Michigan

Don't worry, Easties, when you look at the criteria, it's kind of a 'it's not you, it's me' situation.

And don't feel alone, there are two other suburbs in Grand Rapids that landed on RoadSnacks.net's list of The Top Ten Worst Cities For Dating In Michigan list.

I'm looking at you, Kentwood.

In West Michigan, I've noticed there's tendency for people to get married at a young age, and that fact is what drives three West Michigan cities to dot this list of the Top Ten Worst Cities for Dating in Michigan. There's just too few single people.

The RoadSnacks critierion:

To figure out the best places to find a date in a state, we rely on a complex algorithm that factors in things we generally think make it easy to find single people, and then we figure out which cities have the least number of those things:

1. Population density (Higher is better)
2. Lots of single people
3. Lots of people without kids
4. Lots of places to meet people*

* We included coffee shops, bars, restaurants and churches per capita.

 

Here’s what’s interesting about Michigan, relationship wise:

Michigan is 24th in the nation for divorce rate, 28th in the nation for number of married people (51%), and about average as well for number of people who re-marry. About 24% of people who divorced re-married at least one time in Michigan.

Here are the Top Ten Worst Places for Dating in Michigan:

1. East Grand Rapids
2. New Baltimore
3. Wyoming
4. Beverly Hills
5. Kentwood
6. Grosse Pointe Woods
7. Muskegon Heights
8. Rochester Hills
9. Grosse Pointe Park
10. Sterling Heights

About East Grand Rapids, the point I made above is what drives the decision:

According to folks on City Data, EGR is different from many other communities. It isn’t actually hard to meet people, new members of the community say. However, most of the people you’ll meet here are hitched for life. So meeting neighbors at block parties and BBQs is great…if they were only single.

Wyoming's problem is different: too many houses, not enough places to meet hot singles:

Bars and coffee shops are going to be the hardest places to spark up a new flame, since there aren’t very many of either one located here. You’d have better luck on a random dating site, unfortunately, than you would at an area location.

Kentwood's problem is similar, plus 'it's boring':

However, it’s going to be hard to meet someone out and about, especially in bars and coffee shops: There are the 10th lowest of each, per capita, in Michigan.

 

Said someone on City Data: “Kentwood is boring, especially for a 25-30 year old.”

Just do you know, the best place to find love in Michigan? Marquette. You see, the cold is good for something.