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This quiet residential town two hours from Pittsburgh sits on Lake Erie and is the gateway to Presque Isle, where residents can enjoy the state's only true seashore, hiking and biking trails, and wildlife (it's a favorite pit stop for migrating birds). Though it's one of the region's main retail centers, Millcreek lacks a real downtown. --L.G.
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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.
(3) Crime incidences are estimates based on FBI 2011 Universal Crime and incidence reports, OnBoard analysis.
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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