St. Patrick’s Day is a day for Irish people to celebrate their heritage, but does everybody celebrate it?

LawnStarter, a blog for tips on lawn care and landscaping, created a list of this year’s most Irish cities in America, including a ranking of several cities across Alabama. The list calculated cities from 1st – being the most Irish – to 200th being the least Irish.

The study looked at Irish bloodlines as well as factors indicating Irishness, according to the study.

Huntsville was ranked 81st, with Mobile as the next most Irish city in Alabama coming in at 142. Montgomery was 191st on the list, while Birmingham ranked just after the capital city at 192.

The most Irish city in America, according to the list, is New York City. According to LawnStarter. More than 386,000 Irish Americans lived in New York City as of 2021. That’s double the number of Irish Americans living in Chicago.

Since so many people of the Irish culture live in those cities, there are higher demands for things like Irish pubs, Irish social groups and Irish dance schools. New York City has all of those things.

LawnStarter determined the rankings based on a variety of factors including Irish blood lines, the number of Irish pubs, dance schools, social groups and more. The factors were then grouped, weighted the scores and averaged them across all cities into four categories: community, food and drink, cultural enrichment, and organizations (including Irish cultural and heritage centers and clubs; museums; dance schools; libraries; immigration).

Huntsville was ranked 75th in the community ranking, 117th in the number for food and drinks, 44th in culture enrichment, and 175th in the number for organizations.

Birmingham, meanwhile, was ranked 181 in the community ranking, 108 in food and drinks, 94 in culture enrichment, the number of fish and chips vendors; 87th in the number of St. Patrick’s Day events; 178 in the number for organizations.