Money's list of America's best small cities


States
Top 100
Rank City Population
42 Bellevue 118,100
Other cities
Rank City Population
  Auburn 48,800
  Bainbridge Island 22,100
  Bellingham 75,100
  Bothell 31,300
  Burien 31,100
  Cascade-Fairwood 37,900
  Cottage Lake 25,400
  Des Moines 28,900
  East Hill-Meridian 29,700
  Edmonds 40,100
  Everett 98,500
  Federal Way 84,100
  Inglewood-Finn Hill 22,800
  Kenmore 19,900
  Kennewick 62,200
  Kent 83,500
  Kirkland 46,400
  Lacey 35,400
  Lakewood 57,500
  Lynnwood 33,600
  Marysville 31,900
  Mercer Island 23,400
  Mountlake Terrace 20,200
  Mukilteo 20,300
  North Creek 31,000
  North Marysville 23,500
  Olympia 44,600
  Orchards 20,500
  Parkland 25,500
  Picnic Point-North Lynnwood 27,600
  Puyallup 36,600
  Redmond 48,700
  Renton 58,500
  Richland 44,600
  Sammamish 35,100
  SeaTac 25,300
  Seattle 582,400
  Seattle Hill-Silver Firs 41,500
  Shoreline 52,300
  South Hill 40,500
  Spanaway 24,000
  Spokane 198,000
  Tacoma 196,500
  University Place 30,600
  Vancouver 158,800
  West Lake Stevens 19,900
  Yakima 82,800
From the August 2008 issue
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Top 3

City Median income
New Canaan, CT $231,138
Darien, CT $218,130
Lake Forest, IL $212,122
City % single
Hoboken, NJ 57.7%
Cambridge, MA 52.4%
Somerville, MA 51.4%
City Median home price
Nicholasville, KY $70,000
Watauga, TX $117,040
Redan, GA $115,000
Using statistics from data provider Onboard Informatics and consultant Bert Sperling of BestPlaces.net, 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 7,500 and 50,000.) More

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