This Idaho city is among the top five best US cities to drive in, study finds

Idaho is home to one of the country’s most driver-friendly cities, according to personal finance company WalletHub.

The report ranks the country’s 100 most populous cities based on how pleasant or unpleasant it is to own and drive a car there. Researchers ranked Boise as the fifth best city for driving in the U.S., according to the report.

WalletHub says it evaluated a city’s driver-friendliness based on four main factors — “cost of ownership and maintenance,” “traffic and infrastructure,” “safety” and “access to vehicles and maintenance,” according to the study’s methodology.

Boise was rated 39 in cost of ownership and maintenance, four in traffic and infrastructure, three in safety and 85 in access to vehicles and maintenance. It was also the city where drivers were least likely to get into an accident compared to the national average, the report says.

While WalletHub used data from 100 of the country’s most populated cities, it excluded “cities in the surrounding metro areas,” the report says.

The study determined a city’s rank for each category “using 31 relevant metrics,” including a city’s rate of car thefts, average commute time, average gas prices and quality of roads.