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What is the safest American city? The smartest? The fastest growing? Ten examples of America's superlative cities.
Top 5: Least expensive
City Average price
Minot, ND $132,333
Killeen, TX $140,310
Arlington, TX $140,975
Grayling, MI $144,250
Topeka, KS $148,050
Source: Coldwell Banker Home Price Comparison Index
America's least expensive housing market
Minot, ND
Key stat: A 4-bed, 2-1/2-bath house costs $132,333

The Rust Belt and small cities in the upper Midwest offer many of the nation's least expensive housing markets. A house in Minot costs about one-fourteenth what a similar home costs in Beverly Hills or Santa Monica.

Most of the least expensive cities have large tracts of cheap land on their outskirts, facilitating the development of inexpensive housing.
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