Best cities in each state

[Mike Mercury]

stats for these cities here:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...life/38833209/

1. Valley, Alabama
2. Ketchikan, Alaska
3. Paradise Valley, Arizona
4. Batesville, Arkansas
5. Palos Verdes Estates, California

6. Frederick, Colorado
7. Darien, Connecticut
8. Middletown, Delaware
9. Pinecrest, Florida
10. Milton, Georgia

11. Urban Honolulu, Hawaii
12. Hailey, Idaho
13. Winnetka, Illinois
14. Jasper, Indiana
15. Le Mars, Iowa

16. McPherson, Kansas
17. Edgewood, Kentucky
18. Youngsville, Louisiana
19. Bath, Maine
20. Bowie, Maryland

21. Winchester, Massachusetts
22. East Grand Rapids, Michigan
23. New Ulm, Minnesota
24. Madison, Mississippi
25. Ladue, Missouri

26. Miles City, Montana
27. Norfolk, Nebraska
28. Elko, Nevada
29. Hanover, New Hampshire
30. Haddonfield, New Jersey

31. Los Alamos, New Mexico
32. Croton-on-Hudson, New York
33. Morrisville, North Carolina
34. Mandan, North Dakota
35. New Albany, Ohio

36. Newcastle, Oklahoma
37. Sherwood, Oregon
38. Franklin Park, Pennsylvania
39. Newport, Rhode Island
40. Tega Cay, South Carolina

41. Pierre, South Dakota
42. Atoka, Tennessee
43. West University Place, Texas
44. Woods Cross, Utah
45. South Burlington, Vermont

46. Waynesboro, Virginia
47. Snoqualmie, Washington
48. Bridgeport, West Virginia
49. Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
50. Jackson, Wyoming

Methodology

To identify the best cities to live in every state, 24/7 Wall St. created a weighted index of 26 measures that fall into one of four categories: affordability, economy, quality of life, and community.

In the affordability category, the ratio of the median home value to the median income was given full weight. Cities where the median home value is closer to the median household income were rewarded. Cost of living, as determined by the average cost of goods and services in an area relative to the nation as a whole, was given a full weight. Property taxes are largely levied at the local level, and cities where residents pay more property taxes as a percentage of their home value were penalized. Property taxes were given a one-quarter weighting.

In the economy category, we gave median household income full weighting. The unemployment rate was also given a full weight. We used five-year average unemployment due to lack of comparable annual data at local levels. Two-year employment growth and share of the total working age population with a job were each given a half weight, favoring areas with more and growing jobs opportunities.

In the quality of life category, the poverty rate was given a full weight, penalizing cities where serious financial hardship is more common. The share of the population that struggles to put food on the table either due to low income or distance from a grocery store, known as the food insecurity rate, was given full weight. A city’s mortality rate, calculated as the number of people who died while in hospital care per hospital by city, was also given full weight. In cases where city-level data was not available, mortality rates were imputed from county-level data.

The drug overdose mortality rate was given a one-quarter weighting, as was the hospital readmission rate, or the share of those released from the hospital who were readmitted within 30 days. Distance from the center of the city to the nearest hospital was given full weight.
Measures used in the community category include the average travel time to work, which was given full weight. The violent crime rate – the total number of rapes, robberies, murders, and aggravated assaults per 100,000 people – was given full weight. So too was the property crime rate, which is the total number of burglaries, larcenies, motor vehicle thefts, and incidents of arson per 100,000 people.

The share of commuters either walking, cycling, or taking public transit to work was given half weight. The total number of colleges in the area and the number of restaurants, bars, museums, theatre companies, movie theatres, libraries, and parks per capita were each given a one-quarter weighting.

The number of hospitalizations that would have been prevented by regularly scheduled doctor visits for every 1,000 Medicare enrollees – known as the preventable hospitalization rate – was given half weighting.

Median household income, median home value, average travel time to work, poverty rate, population, employment-to-population ratio, median property taxes paid, and average unemployment rate are all five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and are for 2016. Overall cost of living is for 2014 and comes from data analysis and aggregation company ATTOM Data Solutions.

The population-adjusted number of entertainment and cultural venues like restaurants and museums comes from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns data set, and is for 2016. The number of colleges comes from the Department of Education College Navigator and is as of the 2017-2018 school year.

Violent and property crime rates are from the FBI’s 2017 Uniform Crime Report. Drug overdose mortality rates are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are for the years 2014-2016. Mortality rates and hospital readmission rates are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and are as of June 2015. Preventable hospitalizations are from the latest release from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute joint program.

[Antfarmer2]

No nope not happening.: I will not live anywhere you can't pee off the porch and shoot a shotgun at the same time..

[Lakota]

Trouble is some are NOT a city but a village or a town.

"Croton-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 8,070 at the 2010 census. " Wikipedia

"Winchester is a small suburban town located 8.2 miles north of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States in Middlesex County. It is the 7th wealthiest municipality in Massachusetts and functions largely as a bedroom community for professionals who work in the greater Boston area. Wikipedia"

NOTE: NY & Ma were they only states I checked.

[69camfrk]

Never heard of Milton Ga...

[erickpl]

Couldn't pay me to live in Ladue, MO.... Nope.

[Olustee bus]

Originally Posted by 69camfrk

Never heard of Milton Ga...

Just south of Alpharetta.

[Olustee bus]

Another useless review of good places to live.

[lspencer534]

I live in Madison, MS and have since 1980. Crime is practically non-existent, local businesses must conform to strict ordinances (every new building has to approved by the City Commission as to the height, appearance, etc.), the police have a heavy presence but are very liberal on enforcing speeding, etc. We have many restaurants, a Lowe's and a Home Depot, liquor stores, the largest Kroger's in the South, and just about anything one needs.

Income is the second highest City in the State; last population count was 25,000+, and I expect the next years count will easily exceed 30,000.

[69camfrk]

Originally Posted by Olustee bus

Just north of Alpharetta.

Fixed. Had to look and see where it was.

[StaticCling]

[Loco Vette]

Lived in Tennessee for 44 years and never heard of Atoka.

[Aerovette]

I would not want to live in West U. in Texas.