Money's list of America's best small cities


States
Top 100
Rank City Population
31 Burke 58,200
85 Chesapeake 220,500
19 Hunter Mill 124,100
99 Midlothian 54,500
37 Reston 63,600
25 Sully 158,500
Other cities
Rank City Population
  Alexandria 136,900
  Annandale 55,500
  Arlington 199,700
  Bailey's Crossroads 24,100
  Blacksburg 39,200
  Cave Spring 25,500
  Centreville 53,900
  Chantilly 44,500
  Chester 20,500
  Dale City 69,500
  Dranesville 112,300
  Fairfax 22,400
  Franconia 33,600
  Groveton 21,700
  Hampton 145,000
  Herndon 21,800
  Jefferson 27,600
  Lake Ridge 34,700
  Leesburg 37,400
  Linton Hall 19,900
  Lorton 19,500
  Lynchburg 67,700
  Manassas 36,600
  Matoaca 79,500
  McLean 40,700
  Mechanicsville 37,000
  Montclair 19,900
  Mount Vernon 29,400
  Newington 20,300
  Newport News 178,200
  Norfolk 229,100
  Oakton 31,200
  Portsmouth 101,300
  Richmond 192,900
  Roanoke 91,500
  Springfield 35,600
  Suffolk 81,000
  Tuckahoe 44,400
  Virginia Beach 435,600
  West Springfield 28,600
  Woodbridge 39,100
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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City % single
Hoboken, NJ 57.7%
Cambridge, MA 52.4%
Somerville, MA 51.4%
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City Median home price
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
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