Fourth Best City in the World: Seattle

Oxford Economics, a private research firm in England, recently published its 2026 Global Cities Index.

Seattle ranks fourth, behind New York, London, and Paris. American cities hold five of the top ten spots.

The Oxford Index positions itself as the world’s foremost city-benchmarking tool. During my time at City Hall, I interacted with them on several occasions.

You can read the report for yourself and see whether we measure up from your perspective.

Here’s the BBC’s coverage of the report. Here’s The Seattle Times’ article. (Paywalls may block you if you don’t have a subscription.)

This is good news for Seattle, especially the report’s identification of our diverse economy, highly educated workforce, and our cultural and arts opportunities. Read the section about our economic output; it’s a staggeringly strong factor.

As they say, this is good news, and we’ve only begun.