Money's list of America's best small towns


States
Top 100
Rank City Population
82 Crofton 20,881
67 Eldersburg 31,155
40 Montgomery Village 41,200
Other cities
  Arnold 23,554
  Ballenger Creek 16,781
  Baltimore 635,921
  Bel Air 10,097
  Bel Air North 29,638
  Bel Air South 46,986
  Bennsville 10,954
  California 11,377
  Calverton 19,125
  Cape St. Claire 8,727
  Carney 29,966
  Chevy Chase 9,524
  Cockeysville 19,164
  Colesville 20,963
  Damascus 12,625
  Elkridge 25,998
  Fairland 23,175
  Fallston 8,768
  Green Valley 13,157
  Greenbelt 21,084
  Halfway 11,534
  Joppatowne 12,279
  Kemp Mill 10,964
  Lake Shore 12,901
  Largo 10,252
  Laurel 20,707
  Linganore-Bartonsville 15,335
  Mays Chapel 11,460
  North Bethesda 46,103
  North Kensington 9,407
  North Potomac 26,032
  Ocean Pines 12,478
  Odenton 28,453
  Olney 34,245
  Owings Mills 26,611
  Parole 16,518
  Pasadena 12,475
  Perry Hall 29,578
  Pikesville 30,512
  Potomac 47,245
  Redland 16,935
  Rossmoor 9,380
  Savage-Guilford 13,462
  Severn 41,925
  Severna Park 28,768
  South Gate 28,648
  South Laurel 19,989
  St. Charles 38,902
  Waldorf 24,316
  Westminster 19,430
  White Marsh 10,623
  White Oak 22,061
From the September 2011 issue
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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 2011)
1. Louisville, CO $383,569
2. Milton, MA $577,008
3. Solon, OH $291,162
4. Leesburg, VA $486,018
5. Papillion, NE $218,520
6. Hanover, NH $643,500
7. Liberty, MO $177,678
8. Middleton, WI $347,770
9. Mukilteo, WA $345,487
10. Chanhassen, MN $418,607

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Region
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Ranking
Top 100 winners only
Population
8.4M
8,500
Home Prices
2010 median sales prices
$2.3M
$42K
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 towns for families. (Last year, we looked at small cities, with populations between 50,000 and 300,000.) More

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