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Sleep Tight: Orkin's 2018 Top Bed Bug Cities
We hope your city isn’t on this list. We’ve crunched the data on residential and commercial bed bug treatments performed in metro areas across the country to rank the top 50 cities with the highest bed bug concentrations.
Taking the top spot for the second year is the Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland. Included on the list for the first time are New Orleans and Flint, Michigan with Dallas-Fort Worth joining the top 10. And while the Big Apple, New York, fell four spots from our 2017 ranking, San Diego and Albany rejoin the community as prominent bed bug locales. See the full rankings below:
| Rank | Bedbug Rank | Population Rank |
| 1 | Baltimore | Los Angeles |
| 2 | Washington | Chicago |
| 3 | Chicago | New York |
| 4 | Los Angeles (+2) | Houston |
| 5 | Columbus | Phoenix |
| 6 | Cincinnati (+2) | Philadelphia |
| 7 | Detroit | San Antonio |
| 8 | New York (-4) | San Diego |
| 9 | San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose | Dallas |
| 10 | Dallas-Fort Worth (+5) | San Jose |
| 11 | Indianapolis | Austin |
| 12 | Philadelphia | Jacksonville |
| 13 | Atlanta (+3) | San Francisco |
| 14 | Cleveland-Akron-Canton | Fort Worth |
| 15 | Raleigh-Durham | Indianapolis |
| 16 | Richmond-Petersburg | Charlotte |
| 17 | Houston | Columbus |
| 18 | Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News | Seattle |
| 19 | Charlotte | Denver |
| 20 | Buffalo | Washington DC |
| 21 | Knoxville | El Paso |
| 22 | Nashville | Boston |
| 23 | Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek | Detroit |
| 24 | Pittsburgh | Nashville |
| 25 | Greenville-Spartanburg | Memphis |
| 26 | Champaign-Springfield-Decatur | Portland |
| 27 | Phoenix (-1) | Las Vegas |
| 28 | Denver (-6) | Louisville |
| 29 | Milwaukee | Baltimore |
| 30 | Hartford-New Haven | Milwaukee |
| 31 | Charleston-Huntington | Albuquerque |
| 32 | Boston (-4) | Tucson |
| 33 | Syracuse | Fresno |
| 34 | Dayton | Oklahoma City |
| 35 | St. Louis (+2) | Sacramento |
| 36 | Seattle (-2) | Mesa |
| 37 | Miami-Ft. Lauderdale | Colorado Springs |
| 38 | Flint-Saginaw-Bay City | Long Beach |
| 39 | Omaha | Raleigh |
| 40 | Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Dubuque | Miami |
| 41 | San Diego (new to list) | Virginia Beach |
| 42 | Lexington | Omaha |
| 43 | Honolulu | Atlanta |
| 44 | Louisville | Oakland |
| 45 | Las Vegas (+4) | Minneapolis |
| 46 | Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem | Arlington |
| 47 | New Orleans (new to list) | Tulsa |
| 48 | Myrtle Beach-Florence | New Orleans |
| 49 | Tampa-St. Petersburg | Wichita |
| 50 | Albany-Schenectady-Troy | Tampa |