What does a “best town for families” look like?
Family Circle magazine assembled a list of 1,700 cities with populations between 15,000 and 150,000. Using “family-friendly criteria – including affordable homes, quality schools, access to health care, green space, low crime rate and financial stability” they selected ten to spotlight.
One result might be surprising to a lot of people – the average population of the ten finalist cities was 28,772. The smallest town of the ten was Sherwood, Oregon, population 16,183. The largest finalist was Hendersonville, Tennessee, population 46,969.
What’s not surprising was the importance to these cities of good schools and easy access to the outdoors.
But when people can choose the town where they live it still comes down to a place that’s “passionate about our kids’ well-being” and “a close-knit community (where) everyone . . . feels connected.”
You can read about all ten of the five-figure finalists at Family Circle, August 2009, p. 59.
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