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City administration isn’t easy. Administrators have miles of land to administer and numerous public services to run with limited resources. While some governments accomplish this with success, other encounter more difficulty in doing so.

Financial news and information site Wallethub used 37 metrics across six categories to determine the operating efficiency of 150 of the largest U.S. cities and ranked the cities in order of the efficiency at which they are run. We’ve included the 10 lowest-ranked cities here. Is yours on the list?