Plainfield got its name from the early Quakers who settled the area. Commuters have a 25-minute drive on I-70 to downtown Indianapolis, but many are employed right in town at Duke Energy of Indiana’s corporate headquarters. Families come for the solid schools; in 2010, Plainfield’s schools had a 98% graduation rate. The town recently completed a 10-year revitalization project for its town center. --D.B.
Using statistics from data services company Onboard Informatics, we crunched the numbers in order to zero in on America's best small towns for families. (Last year, we looked at small cities, with populations between 50,000 and 300,000.)
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