10 best places to live in the U.S.
There is no place like home, but is your home one of the best places to live? Money just released its 2022-2023 Best Places to Live in the U.S. ranking, and the top 10 is a list of diverse cities, both by region and actual population diversity. The methodology Money used when creating the 35th annual list was a desire to create “a more welcoming list for a broader group of people this year, so we restructured our data gathering and ranking processes to reflect that priority.”
To that end, changes included introducing new data related to national heritage, languages spoken at home and religious diversity. Data was collected from cities with a population of at least 20,000 people, and there was and no population maximum set as in previous years; had a population that was at least 85 percent as racially diverse as the state; and had a median household income of at least 85 percent of the state median.
Data was then broken down into nine primary ranking factors: cost of living, diversity, economic opportunity, education, fun and amenities, health and safety, housing market, income and personal finance, and quality of life.
Atlanta tops the annual list thanks to its “booming job market and eye on equality.” The South is also represented by Raleigh, N.C., and Tampa, while the Midwest top locations are Ann Arbor, Mich., and the Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park, Ill. Tempe, Ariz., stands out in the Southwest, while Kirkland, Wash., outside of Seattle is a star in the Northwest. Click through the gallery above to see what other cities round out the top 10 best places to live in U.S. The full report is available here.
