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Florida might be a haven for retirees, but the master planners of Coral Springs wanted to keep their town young, adding dozens of parks and a 182-acre Sportsplex that offers kids' recreation classes galore. Today 27% of the city's population is under 18. Coral Springs' housing market collapsed with the rest of the Sunshine State's, but a city-organized task force dedicated to the maintenance of foreclosed properties has helped mitigate the impact. --E.R.
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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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