Best Places to Live

Money's list of America's best small towns

Top 100

Rank	City	Population
51	Savage, MN	28,500
52	Shoreview, MN	25,900
53	Hillsborough, NJ	39,300
54	Glen Ellyn, IL	27,100
55	Brownsburg, IN	20,200
56	Manassas Park, VA	12,300
57	Walnut, CA	32,400
58	Oswego, IL	26,100
59	West Norriton, PA	15,600
60	Mamaroneck, NY	18,900
61	Webster Groves, MO	22,200
62	Plainfield, IN	22,200
63	North Logan, UT	9,100
64	La Palma, CA	15,700
65	Whitefish Bay, WI	14,000
66	Black Forest, CO	21,800
67	Eldersburg, MD	31,200
68	The Colony, TX	46,100
69	West Linn, OR	26,200
70	Harrison, NY	24,100
71	Germantown, WI	20,600
72	Urbandale, IA	39,700
73	Cheshire, CT	29,900
74	North Liberty, IA	10,500
75	Saratoga Springs, NY	27,800

From the September 2011 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 year.

City	Avg. listing price (July 2011)
1. Louisville, CO	$383,569
2. Milton, MA	$577,008
3. Solon, OH	$291,162
4. Leesburg, VA	$486,018
5. Papillion, NE	$218,520
6. Hanover, NH	$643,500
7. Liberty, MO	$177,678
8. Middleton, WI	$347,770
9. Mukilteo, WA	$345,487
10. Chanhassen, MN	$418,607

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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.) More

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