Are hipsters leaving San Francisco, too?

A "Hipsters Only" sign is displayed as members work at the Impact Hub in Oakland, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. San Francisco clocked in at a shocking 61st on the 2017 U.S. Hipster Index, compiled by data company MoveHub. Oakland ranked just slightly higher. According to the study, the most hipster spots in the Bay Area are Santa Rosa, Modesto and Sacramento. less A "Hipsters Only" sign is displayed as members work at the Impact Hub in Oakland, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. San Francisco clocked in at a shocking 61st on the 2017 U.S. Hipster Index, ... more Photo: David Paul Morris, File Photo Photo: David Paul Morris, File Photo Image 1 of / 49 Caption Close Are hipsters leaving San Francisco, too? 1 / 49 Back to Gallery

Have San Francisco's hipsters gone the way of artists, teachers, cops and wild quail? That is, have the city's bearded, beer-drinking youth fled for elsewhere?

San Francisco clocked in at a shocking 61st on the 2017 U.S. Hipster Index, compiled by data company MoveHub. Oakland ranked just slightly higher. According to the study, the most hipster spots in the Bay Area are Santa Rosa, Modesto and Sacramento.

The most hipster city in the U.S., says MoveHub, is Vancouver, Wash. – home to "Southwest Washington's largest and only enclosed shopping center," according to the city's tourism website.

"A notable outcome of the study is that America's largest cities simply can't compete," a MoveHub analysis noted. "It seems that larger cities have their hipsterness diluted by their size ... Big cities literally aren't niche enough to be true hipster havens."

The surprising revelations can probably be explained by the study's methodology, which determined a city's "hipsterness" based on year-over-year rent inflation as well as the per-capita volume of microbreweries, vegan stores, thrift shops and tattoo parlors. Thus, the same factors responsible for San Francisco's housing crisis — too many people, not enough space, and high rents that don't move much — cancel out its numerous brewpubs and tempeh shops.

Actually, tempeh is the only department San Francisco excelled in, according to the study. The city ranked fifth for most vegan shops per 100,000 people.

MoveHub offered some words of condolence for tattooed urbanites distraught over their study's findings: "Any flaws in the US Hipster Index are purely ironic."

Michelle Robertson is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at mrobertson@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @mrobertsonsf.