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FINALIST
Mesa, AZ
Best big cities rank: 3
Population: 442,800
Compare Mesa to Top 10 Best Places
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City stats |
Best places average |
Median family income
(per year) |
$54,850 |
$76,893 |
Family purchasing power
(annual, cost-of-living adjusted) |
$51,262 |
$68,109 |
| Sales tax |
7.80% |
6.55% |
State income tax rate
(highest bracket) |
5.04%* |
6.46% |
State income tax rate
(lowest bracket) |
2.87%* |
2.74% |
Auto insurance premiums
(Average for the state) |
$2,588 |
$2,207 |
Job growth %
(2000-2005) |
13.32% |
10.97% |
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City stats |
Best places average |
| Median home price |
$199,000 |
$259,566 |
Home price gain
(2004-2005) |
28.90% |
9.26% |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Colleges, universities and
professional schools |
10 |
8 |
Junior colleges and
technical institutes |
3 |
0 |
Test scores reading
(% +/- state average) |
11.2% |
13.3% |
Test scores math
(% +/- state average) |
17.9% |
16.9% |
% students attending
public/private schools |
98.4/1.60 |
88.4/11.59 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Air quality index
(% of days AQI ranked as good) |
22.2% |
71.9% |
Personal crime risk
(100 is nat'l average; lower is better) |
85 |
45 |
Property crime risk
(100 is nat'l average; lower is better) |
152 |
74 |
Personal crime incidents
(per 100,000) |
562 |
228 |
Property crime incidents
(per 100,000) |
5,250 |
3,105 |
Median commute time
(in minutes) |
22.5 |
20.8 |
% population with commute
45 mins. or longer |
14.5% |
13.4% |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Movie theaters
(within 15 miles) |
25 |
22 |
Restaurants
(within 15 miles) |
3,089 |
2,268 |
Bars
(within 15 miles) |
109 |
127 |
Public golf courses
(within 30 miles) |
108 |
74 |
Libraries
(within 15 miles) |
30 |
43 |
Museums (accredited by AAM
within 30 miles) |
5 |
7 |
| Ski resorts (within 100 miles) |
1 |
10 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Annual precipitation
(inches) |
9.23 |
36.00 |
| Clear days |
211 |
107 |
| High temp in July ° F |
105.7° |
87.7° |
| Low temp in Jan ° F |
41.5° |
23.5° |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Has health plan
(% of residents) |
84.9% |
88.2% |
Body mass index
(avg. for residents) |
26 |
27 |
Cancer mortality
(per 100,000, age-adjusted) |
182.6 |
191.3 |
Cardiac mortality
(per 100,000) |
187.3 |
202.0 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
| Median age |
31.7 |
34.5 |
Completed at least some college
(% of residents) |
57.6% |
63.9% |
| Married |
53.1% |
54.3% |
| Divorced |
10.7% |
9.3% |
Amount spent on vacations
(domestic and foreign, household avg. per year) |
$7,272 |
$7,549 |
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| Company |
F500 rank |
| Avnet |
212 |
| Phelps Dodge |
260 |
| Allied Waste Industries |
376 |
| See the rest |
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| Company |
Employees |
| Arizona Board Of Regents |
17,000 |
| Simplified Business Solutions |
3,601 |
| Tucson Medical Center |
2,926 |
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