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Golf is big in Riverview, which boasts seven courses located less than 10 miles from the city's center. Golf not your thing? The Busch Gardens theme park and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are also in the area. Though the population in this bedroom community of Tampa has grown by nearly 60,000 between 2000 and 2010, Riverview has maintained a small-town feel. Moreover, the influx of people has given Riverview's housing market a boost. Local realtors say it's now transitioning from a buyer's market to a seller's market. --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.
(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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