Best Places to Live

Money's list of America's best small cities

Top 100

Rank	City	Population
26	O'Fallon, MO	77,000
27	Lee's Summit, MO	89,000
28	Waltham, MA	60,000
29	Abington, PA	54,000
30	Centreville, VA	54,000
31	Rockville, MD	61,000
32	West Chester, OH	60,000
33	Loveland, CO	66,000
34	Franklin, NJ	61,000
35	Edmond, OK	83,000
36	Gilbert, AZ	216,000
37	Mentor, OH	52,000
38	Yorba Linda, CA	66,000
39	Brookline, MA	58,000
40	Chapel Hill, NC	54,000
41	Clarkstown, NY	83,000
42	Amherst, NY	115,000
43	Bolingbrook, IL	71,000
44	Coral Springs, FL	126,000
45	Orem, UT	94,000
46	Ann Arbor, MI	116,000
47	Alexandria, VA	145,000
48	Coconut Creek, FL	50,000
49	Blue Springs, MO	56,000
50	Waukesha, WI	68,000

From the August 2010 issue

CNNMoney's Best Places database includes 800-plus U.S. cities with populations 50,000 and up.

Best Places Winners

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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 2 years.

City	Avg. listing price (June 2010)
1. Eden Prairie, MN	$430,710
2. Columbia-Ellicott City, MD	$487,602
3. Newton, MA	$989,445
4. Bellevue, WA	$801,423
5. McKinney, TX	$267,661
6. Fort Collins, CO	$271,950
7. Overland Park, KS	$308,235
8. Fishers, IN	$282,482
9. Ames, IA	$189,657
10. Rogers, AR	$269,229

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How we picked the Best Places

Using statistics from data provider 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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