America's Most Polluted Cities

The American Lung Association has issued its annual State of Air report.

Here is the related article:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/28/real_estate/most_polluted_cities/index.htm?postversion=2009042912

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/28/pollution-ozone-air-lifestyle-health-ozone-pollution.html

Here is the summary of America's most polluted cities:

The nation's 10 most polluted cities in terms of ozone.

City	State	Average ozone level (2005-2006)
Los Angeles	CA	138.8
Bakersfield	CA	110.5
Visalia-Porterville	CA	101.2
Fresno-Madera	CA	62.7
Houston	TX	53.7
Sacramento	CA	49.7
Dallas	TX	38.8
Charlotte	NC	37
Phoenix	AZ	36.5
El Centro	CA	32.8

The nation's 10 most polluted cities by amount of particulates.

Metro area	State	Average particles level (2005-2007)
Bakersfield	CA	20.3
Pittsburgh	CA	19.8
Visalia	CA	19.3
Birmingham	AL	18.9
Hanford	CA	17.6
Fresno	CA	17.4
Cincinnati	OH	17.3
Detroit	MI	17.2
Los Angeles	CA	17.1
Cleveland	OH	16.8

While this data does not have direct correlations with real estate price, I certainly want to avoid living in these cities.

As for the LA, I found air fairly clean near the coast. But in inland, it is quite bad. In terms of that, it has correlations with real estate price!

Happy Investing!!!