Customer sentiment by city
How this is calculated. For each city we sample well-known businesses (restaurants, hotels, hospitals, supermarkets) from public Google data. The sentiment score is the share of positive review excerpts (neutral counts half), read by our own text rules from the reviews Google returns. The Google rating is the average across the sampled businesses, weighted by how many ratings each has. This is not CSAT: no survey answers are involved, and each business contributes at most 5 review excerpts, so treat it as an indicator, not a ranking of cities.
United States
Calculated 27 Oct 2026
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HoustonGoogle rating 4.52 / 5 across 80 businesses
32 positive, 1 neutral, 2 negative · 35 review excerpts 93sentiment
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New YorkGoogle rating 4.38 / 5 across 79 businesses
35 positive, 2 neutral, 3 negative · 40 review excerpts 90sentiment
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ChicagoGoogle rating 4.36 / 5 across 79 businesses
35 positive, 2 neutral, 3 negative · 40 review excerpts 90sentiment
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Los AngelesGoogle rating 4.31 / 5 across 78 businesses
26 positive, 4 neutral, 5 negative · 35 review excerpts 80sentiment
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Australia
Calculated 28 Oct 2026
1
AdelaideGoogle rating 4.49 / 5 across 66 businesses
35 positive, 2 neutral, 3 negative · 40 review excerpts 90sentiment
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MelbourneGoogle rating 4.30 / 5 across 79 businesses
30 positive, 0 neutral, 5 negative · 35 review excerpts 86sentiment
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BrisbaneGoogle rating 4.33 / 5 across 80 businesses
33 positive, 1 neutral, 6 negative · 40 review excerpts 84sentiment
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SydneyGoogle rating 4.26 / 5 across 79 businesses
29 positive, 5 neutral, 6 negative · 40 review excerpts 79sentiment
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PerthGoogle rating 4.28 / 5 across 80 businesses
24 positive, 1 neutral, 10 negative · 35 review excerpts 70sentiment
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United Arab Emirates
Calculated 27 Oct 2026
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DubaiGoogle rating 4.58 / 5 across 80 businesses
37 positive, 0 neutral, 3 negative · 40 review excerpts 92sentiment
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Abu DhabiGoogle rating 4.54 / 5 across 80 businesses
28 positive, 1 neutral, 6 negative · 35 review excerpts 81sentiment
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SharjahGoogle rating 4.48 / 5 across 80 businesses
29 positive, 3 neutral, 8 negative · 40 review excerpts 76sentiment
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