Money's list of America's best small cities


States
Top 100
Rank City Population
39 Brookline 58,000
3 Newton 82,000
28 Waltham 60,000
52 Weymouth 53,000
Other cities
  Boston 647,006
  Brockton 93,007
  Cambridge 105,596
  Chicopee 54,941
  Fall River 90,931
  Framingham 65,743
  Haverhill 61,275
  Lawrence 70,053
  Lowell 105,211
  Lynn 86,957
  Malden 57,301
  Medford 55,573
  New Bedford 91,365
  Peabody 51,377
  Quincy 92,339
  Revere 60,204
  Somerville 77,855
  Springfield 150,640
  Taunton 55,702
  Worcester 175,011
From the August 2010 issue
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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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Region
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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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