Money's list of America's best small cities


Cities
Rank City Population
  Tacoma, WA 197,181
  Tallahassee, FL 181,189
  Tamarac, FL 59,340
  Tamiami, FL 51,783
  Tampa, FL 340,882
  Taunton, MA 55,702
  Taylor, MI 66,296
  Taylorsville, UT 62,048
  Temecula, CA 97,100
  Tempe, AZ 175,523
  Temple, TX 63,298
  Terre Haute, IN 60,816
  The Hammocks, FL 47,537
  The Woodlands, TX 65,491
  Thornton, CO 114,620
  Thousand Oaks, CA 123,091
  Tinley Park, IL 59,198
  Toledo, OH 293,201
  Toms River, NJ 88,358
  Tonawanda, NY 56,578
  Topeka, KS 123,446
  Torrance, CA 140,820
  Town 'n' Country, FL 76,440
  Towson, MD 52,301
  Tracy, CA 79,196
  Trenton, NJ 82,883
  Troy, MI 80,264
  Tucson, AZ 541,811
  Tulare, CA 56,654
  Tulsa, OK 388,860
  Turlock, CA 68,404
  Tuscaloosa, AL 90,221
  Tustin, CA 71,814
  Tyler, TX 97,705
From the August 2010 issue
CNNMoney's Best Places database includes 800-plus U.S. cities with populations 50,000 and up.
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Home price trends
Hover over any of the 10 Best Places below to see how real estate prices have changed in the past 2 years.
City Avg. listing price
(June 2010)
1. Eden Prairie, MN $430,710
2. Columbia-Ellicott
     City, MD		 $487,602
3. Newton, MA $989,445
4. Bellevue, WA $801,423
5. McKinney, TX $267,661
6. Fort Collins, CO $271,950
7. Overland Park, KS $308,235
8. Fishers, IN $282,482
9. Ames, IA $189,657
10. Rogers, AR $269,229

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Ranking
Top 100 winners only
Population
8.4M
46,000
Home Prices
2009 median sales prices
$1.2M
$36K
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How we picked the Best Places
Using statistics from data provider 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.) More

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