Money's list of America's best small cities


States
Top 100
Rank City Population
44 Arlington 210,000
29 Ashburn 59,800
15 Centreville 72,900
48 Dale City 68,300
7 Reston 60,300
Other cities
  Alexandria 143,885
  Chesapeake 223,454
  Hampton 145,494
  Harrisonburg 51,415
  Lynchburg 77,473
  Newport News 179,614
  Norfolk 245,779
  Portsmouth 93,280
  Richmond 205,394
  Roanoke 99,018
  Suffolk 86,170
  Virginia Beach 438,243
From the September 2012 issue
Due to erroneous job, cost-of-living, and test score data for a small number of places, two cities were left off this year's top 100 and two were mistakenly included. Other cities moved up or down slightly once all data were corrected. Details.
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Home price trends
Hover over any of the 10 Best Places below to see how real estate prices have changed in the past year.
City Avg. listing price
(July 2012)
1. Carmel, IN $304,340
2. McKinney, TX $245,917
3. Eden Prairie, MN $413,566
4. Newton, MA $850,117
5. Redmond, WA $518,982
6. Irvine, CA $904,753
7. Reston, VA $467,934
8. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD $406,943
9. Overland Park, KS $278,204
10. Chapel Hill, NC $376,660

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How we picked the Best Places
Using statistics from data services company Onboard Informatics, we crunched the numbers in order to zero in on America's best small cities for families. (Last year, we looked at small towns, with populations between 8,500 and 50,000.) More

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