Money's list of America's best small cities


States
Top 100
Rank City Population
76 West Hartford 65,100
Other cities
Rank City Population
  Branford 29,800
  Bridgeport 137,900
  Bristol 61,100
  Cheshire 29,400
  Danbury 79,200
  Darien 20,200
  East Hartford 50,000
  East Haven 29,400
  Fairfield 58,100
  Farmington 24,600
  Greenwich 62,700
  Guilford 22,300
  Hamden 59,800
  Hartford 124,500
  Manchester 57,800
  Mansfield 24,600
  Meriden 59,400
  Middletown 47,400
  Milford city 53,200
  Naugatuck 31,800
  New Britain 70,700
  New Canaan 19,600
  New Haven 124,000
  New Milford 28,900
  Newington 30,100
  North Haven 23,900
  Norwalk 84,100
  Shelton 40,100
  Simsbury 23,800
  South Windsor 24,900
  Stamford 119,200
  Stratford 49,900
  Trumbull 35,600
  Wallingford 45,700
  Waterbury 107,200
  Waterford 19,900
  West Haven 52,700
  Westport 26,200
  Wethersfield 26,600
From the August 2008 issue
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Top 3

City Median income
New Canaan, CT $231,138
Darien, CT $218,130
Lake Forest, IL $212,122
City % single
Hoboken, NJ 57.7%
Cambridge, MA 52.4%
Somerville, MA 51.4%
City Median home price
Nicholasville, KY $70,000
Watauga, TX $117,040
Redan, GA $115,000
Using statistics from data provider Onboard Informatics and consultant Bert Sperling of BestPlaces.net, 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 7,500 and 50,000.) More

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