Study finds most narcissistic city in U.S. (hint, it's in Calif.) But it's not Los Angeles

No. 10 — Sacramento: Pride index — 171.4. Plastic surgeon offices per 10,000 households — 1.08. U.S. selfie ranking — 20th (35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people)

No. 10 — Sacramento: Pride index — 171.4. Plastic surgeon offices per 10,000 households — 1.08. U.S. selfie ranking — 20th (35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people) Photo: Image Source, Getty Images Photo: Image Source, Getty Images Image 1 of / 69 Caption Close Study finds most narcissistic city in U.S. (hint, it's in Calif.) 1 / 69 Back to Gallery

We're so vain, we probably think this study is about us.

And, as we live in California, it is.

Trulia, the real estate site, wanted to find out which cities in the United States are the most narcissistic based on the number of plastic surgery offices, tanning salons and beauty salons per 10,000 households.

Conventional wisdom would suggest that California metropolises would have ample representation in the top 10, what with Hollywood and celebrity culture having such prominence, and conventional wisdom would be right.

The top five cities in the study, whose results were released last week, are all from California, and even the next five include two from the state.

You would think Californians look at their reflections more than their cell phones.

Surprisingly, Los Angeles — despite its reputation for shallowness — does not lead the list. In fact, it's not even No. 2.

Not to quibble about Trulia's methodology, but we think another variable could have been included to determine a city's vanity quotient — its per-capita selfie production. What's more vain than constantly shooting photos of yourself?!

So for comparison, we included the Time.com selfie ranking that corresponds to the cities in the Trulia study.

Last year, Time built a database of more than 400,000 Instagram photos tagged "selfie" that included geographic coordinates and ranked 459 global cities to determine the 100 selfiest places on earth.

See the vainest metropolitan areas in the United States in the above slideshow.

In case you're wondering, the least vain cities in the U.S. according to Trulia's beauty/tanning salon and plastic surgery metric are Claremont/Lebanon, N.H.-Vt.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and Huntington, WVa.-Ky.-Ohio.