It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, particularly if you live in one of these 20 small cities.
WalletHub compared additional than 1,300 US cities alongside populations between 25,000 and 100,000 to acknowledge the finest places to live.
The inspection evaluated the cities using 45 "key indicators of livability," and it classified the cities throughout five categories: affordability, financial health, learning and health, norm of life, and safety.
Within those five categories, it considered distinct criteria, specified as median family income, job growth, unemployment rate, elevated academy graduation rate, average commute time, parks per capita, aggressive infringement rate, and pedestrian fatalities per capita.
For the study, WalletHub used data from sources including the US Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, FBI, TransUnion, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, among others.
Here are the 20 finest small cities in America.
20. Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Fair Lawn, a suburb of New York City, has a community of concerning 37,000.
In WalletHub's study, it classified 29th for learning and health and 49th for safety.
However, it classified 806th for norm of life, which considered factors specified as average commute time, average activity hours, and local entertainment, including bars, clubs, and movie theaters per capita.
19. Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Glen Ellyn is a suburb of Chicago, located due west of the Windy City. About 28,000 group live there.
Glen Ellyn's highest mark was in the affordability category, ranking 51st. The affordability category considered median family income, disbursal of living, and accommodation costs, among another factors.
18. Lehi, Utah
Lehi is located on the north coast of Utah Lake, and is concerning 28 miles south of Salt Lake City and its eponymous lake.
Among all 1,318 cities in the study, it classified 10th for financial health — which considered factors specified as job growth, unemployment rate, foreclosure rate, and median credit score, among others — and 6th for safety.
17. Zionsville, Indiana
Zionsville is the archetypal of a few Indianapolis suburbs on this list, alongside a community of concerning 33,000.
It classified 9th for affordability among all the cities in the study.
16. Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster is likely finest known for its ample Amish and Mennonite populations, but not everyone in Lancaster belongs to those communities. Most Amish residents live in the agrarian areas of Lancaster County fairly than in Lancaster city, which has a community of concerning 58,000.
Lancaster (the city) classified 10th for norm of life.
15. Castle Rock, Colorado
Castle Rock, part of the Denver metropolitan area, has a community of 88,000 people. It gets its name from the castle-shaped butte in the center of town, as pictured here.
The highest mark Castle Rock received was for safety, at No. 32.
14. Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood is a suburb immediately south of Nashville, and many nation stars call this city their residence — Dolly Parton's chief residence was here. About 91,000 another group are residents of Brentwood, too.
WalletHub reported that it's a harmless city — it classified 12th in the safety category.
13. Leesburg, Virginia
Leesburg is part of the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, albeit 40 miles from downtown. The community is nearly 50,000.
It classified 24th for learning and health, although it fared small fine in the financial health category, ranking 495th.
12. Appleton, Wisconsin
Appleton is located on the north coast of Lake Winnebago, in northeastern Wisconsin. Approximately 75,000 group call Appleton home.
Its highest ranking in WalletHub's study was in norm of life, anywhere it classified 60th.
11. Stratford, Connecticut
With a community of concerning 54,000, Stratford borders the most populous city in the province (Bridgeport) and is concerning 17 miles southwest of New Haven.
It placed elevated in WalletHub's ranking because of its 34th location in learning and health.
10. Fishers, Indiana
Fishers is the second Indianapolis suburb on this list. About 100,000 group live there.
It classified 22nd for affordability, but at 615th for norm of life.
9. Franklin, Tennessee
Franklin is among the cities that create up the greater Nashville metropolitan area, alongside a community of concerning 91,000 residents.
A low affordability mark was stable by elevated scores in financial health and safety.
8. Arlington, Massachusetts
Arlington borders another city afterward on this catalog (spoiler: it's the No. 1 small city), so it shouldn't be too amazing that this northwest suburb of Boston placed elevated as well.
Arlington classified archetypal for learning and health in WalletHub's study. It additionally tied for fifth for the highest percent of insured population.
7. Milton, Massachusetts
Milton is located small than 10 miles south of Boston and has a community of concerning 28,000.
While Milton classified comparatively low for norm of existence (727th), a elevated learning and health ranking (17th) made up for it.
6. Westfield, Indiana
Westfield borders another city on this list, Carmel. Both are suburbs of Indianapolis.
About 66,000 group live in Westfield, which was classified 12th for financial health in the study.
5. Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs can't really be considered a suburb of anything, since the closest city is Albany, if you run 36 miles south. About 29,000 residents call the upstate city home.
Its highest-ranked metric in WalletHub's study is for norm of life. It classified 39th.
4. Apex, North Carolina
Apex is a city located southwest of Raleigh. About 86,000 group call Apex residence — and luckily for them, it classified No. 1 on the financial health scale, and No. 12 for affordability.
3. Carmel, Indiana
Carmel is a suburb of Indianapolis alongside a community of concerning 105,000. It borders another Indianapolis suburbs on this list, Westfield and Fishers.
What puts it at No. 3 general is a low unemployment rate, a elevated median family earnings (nearly $142,000), and a elevated median credit mark for its citizens.
It additionally has the ninth-lowest "share of adults in fair or mediocre health," WalletHub reported.
2. Brookfield, Wisconsin
Brookfield is located 15 miles west of Milwaukee and has a community of concerning 41,000.
Per WalletHub, the city has a 3% unemployment rate, among the lowest in the country. It additionally has among the highest median credit scores in the US, at 785.
1. Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington is a suburb of Boston located concerning 10 miles northwest of the city. It has a community of concerning 34,000 people.
While the city classified low on WalletHub's affordability measure (487th), it made up for it in another categories.
It classified third in the education-and-health category — perhaps no astonishment for a small city in the most-educated province in the US.
Lexington additionally classified fifth for safety, alongside WalletHub citing its low asset and aggressive infringement rates among the cities in the study.
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Gabbi Shaw is a newsman on Business Insider's editorial partnerships team. She has covered entertainment, travel, food, and manner for Business Insider and Insider Inc.'s partners, including MSN, Apple News, and Yahoo since 2018, and her activity has taken her to iconic mansions of the Gilded Age, the Westminster Dog Show, Disney World, the Hamptons, and additional fast-food restaurants than she cares to remember.She graduated from Tulane University in 2017 alongside a flat in community health and now lives in New York City.
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