“This list is a genuine reflection of how people actually show up for each other.”
Nirav Tolia
Co-Founder & CEO
Nextdoor
… on the platform’s 2026 Friendliest Neighborhoods rankings, via LinkedIn.
Nextdoor says it has a front-row seat to millions of small acts of neighborliness every day—welcome messages, restaurant recommendations, meal trains for families in crisis. Now the platform has tried to quantify all of it.
The company released its 2026 Friendliest Neighborhoods rankings in late February, covering cities in America with 10 or more distinct neighborhoods. In a social media post, Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia said the rankings are based entirely on real user behavior on the platform—not surveys or self-reported data—measuring things like the tone of posts, how often requests for help got answered, how many items were shared for free, and whether newcomers received a warm welcome.
The Town of Addison was the highest-ranking DFW city, landing at No. 4 among the friendliest cities in Texas. Nextdoor describes it as a walkable, dog-friendly town with a safe atmosphere and a food scene that punches above its weight with more than 180 restaurants for an incorporated area of roughly 4.4 square miles.
In Dallas, South Winnetka Heights earned the top spot. Highland Park came in at No. 7, a fact Tolia, who lives there, noted with good humor. It “will always be number one in my heart,” he wrote.
Tolia co-founded Nextdoor in 2008 and led the company as CEO until 2018. He returned to the top job in early 2024 to lead a turnaround, following the company’s 2021 public listing. He says the rankings are something uniquely possible on Nextdoor’s platform, where interactions are tied to verified addresses and real neighborhoods rather than anonymous feeds.
“Every day on Nextdoor, millions of small things happen,” he wrote. “Most of these moments go unnoticed by the world. But we notice them.”
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