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SmartAsset was out Thursday with a new look at local housing markets, this time seeking the most livable small cities in the country. Here’s what it found:
For this study, we considered small cities to be those with populations between 65,000 and 99,000. In order to rank the most livable small cities in the country, we looked at 11 metrics. We compared each city across metrics like concentration of entertainment establishments, concentration of restaurants, concentration of bars, concentration of health care establishments, income inequality, median-home-value to median income ratio, housing cost as a percent of household income, percent of residents below the poverty line, unemployment rate, percent of residents with health insurance and average commute times. Check out our data and methodology below to see where we got our data and how we put it together.
