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Money's list of America's best small cities

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Top 100
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Rank	City	Population
	Akron	209,700
	Ashland	21,800
	Austintown	30,500
	Avon Lake	22,100
	Beavercreek	39,300
	Boardman	35,200
	Bowling Green	29,700
	Brook Park	19,600
	Brunswick	35,100
	Canton	78,900
	Centerville	23,000
	Cincinnati	332,200
	Cleveland	444,300
	Cleveland Heights	47,000
	Columbus	733,200
	Cuyahoga Falls	50,300
	Dayton	156,700
	Delaware	32,100
	Dublin	36,500
	Eastlake	19,600
	Elyria	55,700
	Euclid	48,700
	Fairborn	31,600
	Fairfield	42,200
	Findlay	38,100
	Gahanna	33,000
	Garfield Heights	28,500
	Green	23,500
	Grove City	31,800
	Hilliard	26,800
	Huber Heights	37,600
	Hudson	23,100
	Kent	27,900
	Kettering	54,600
	Lakewood	52,100
	Lebanon	20,300
	Lorain	70,500
	Mansfield	50,200
	Maple Heights	24,200
	Mason	29,400
	Medina	26,300
	Mentor	51,500
	Miamisburg	19,800
	Middletown	51,200
	Newark	47,200
	North Olmsted	32,100
	North Ridgeville	27,100
	North Royalton	29,400
	Oxford	22,300
	Parma	80,000
	Parma Heights	20,200
	Reynoldsburg	33,000
	Riverside	22,400
	Shaker Heights	27,200
	Sidney	20,100
	Solon	22,200
	South Euclid	21,700
	Springfield	62,800
	Stow	34,300
	Strongsville	43,300
	Toledo	298,400
	Troy	22,300
	Union	59,000
	Upper Arlington	31,300
	Wadsworth	20,100
	Westerville	34,900
	Westlake	31,000
	Willoughby	22,300
	Wooster	25,700
	Xenia	23,400
	Youngstown	81,500

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

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Hoboken, NJ	57.7%
Cambridge, MA	52.4%
Somerville, MA	51.4%

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Nicholasville, KY	$70,000
Watauga, TX	$117,040
Redan, GA	$115,000

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How we picked the Best Places

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