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Franklin residents respect the past -- yet are eager to embrace the future. In the well-preserved 15-block historic district, parking garages are equipped with charging stations for electric cars. While most residents make the 20-mile commute to Nashville, some live and work in Franklin thanks to major employers like Nissan and Community Health Systems. Franklin's May unemployment rate of 5.6% isn't the lowest on our list, but well below Tennessee's overall 7.9%. --E.R.
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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