Livability.com Names the Top 10 Small Towns, 2014
(PRWEB) July 22, 2014 -- Perhaps the best thing about a great small town is its ability to change your perspective. With this in mind, Livability.com has named the Top 10 Small Towns, 2014. These cities provide beautiful locales that inspire both creativity and activity, and they offer unhurried atmospheres, authentic character and characters, cultural gems, fantastic outdoor settings and the uncommon ability to change lifestyles, shift points of view and nourish souls with simple pleasures.
For this list of cities, editors analyzed more data on micropolitan areas than ever before. Using metrics from Esri, they started by looking at cities with populations under 20,000, then dug into statistics like cost of living, health-care spending, racial and socioeconomic diversity, adult obesity, crime, civic engagement, air quality and natural amenities, just to name a few of the 41 data points.
After narrowing down the list, editors conducted a visual assessment of the cities and found out what visitors had to say about them and what residents liked about living there.
“Throughout the U.S., we’re seeing a resurgence of emphasis on downtowns in cities of all sizes,” says Livability.com Editor Matt Carmichael. “It’s nice to see in the big cities, certainly, but it’s especially great to see these smaller towns not just holding their own, but also thriving.”
Top 10 Small Towns, 2014
Los Alamos, NM
Northfield, MN
Lebanon, NH
Hood River, OR
Port Angeles, WA
Glenwood Springs, CO
Spearfish, SD
Heber City, UT
Traverse City, MI
Hailey, ID
Matt Carmichael, Livability.com, http://livability.com, +1 (847) 969-5483, [email protected]
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