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When looking at suburbs within a 30-minute drive to Philadelphia, it's tough to find one with better schools. A slew of Abington schools are longtime blue-ribbon and state medal award winners; last year's math and reading test scores were 38% and 35% above the state average, respectively. While residents gripe about traffic on Abington's winding streets, they needn't commute far for shopping: Willow Grove Mall has more than 130 stores, and small businesses are doing well. --D.M.
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Due to erroneous job, cost-of-living, and test score stats for a small number of places, this city's rank changed slightly from an earlier version.
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Due to an error by our data provider, an earlier version listed incorrect stats for this city's number of colleges.
Using statistics from data services company 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.)
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