Best Places to Live

- Money's list of America's best small cities

Rank City State Population
1 Plymouth, MN 70,100
2 Fort Collins, CO 129,400
3 Naperville, IL 142,900
4 Irvine, CA 193,900
5 Franklin Township, NJ 59,100
6 Norman, OK 102,800
7 Round Rock, TX 92,300
8 Columbia/Ellicott City, MD 158,800
9 Overland Park, KS 166,700
10 Fishers, IN 61,800
11 Olathe, KS 114,600
12 Highlands Ranch, CO 102,600
13 Parsippany/Troy Hills, NJ 52,900
14 McKinney, TX 107,500
15 Carrollton, TX 121,600
16 Cary, NC 112,400
17 Eagan, MN 63,700
18 Richardson, TX 99,800
19 Hunter Mill, VA 124,100
20 Allen, TX 73,200
21 Abington, PA 57,400
22 Troy, MI 81,100
23 Piscataway, NJ 53,900
24 Apple Valley, MN 50,100
25 Sully, VA 158,500
26 Lakeville, MN 53,000
27 Ann Arbor, MI 113,200
28 Gilbert, AZ 191,500
29 Gaithersburg, MD 57,900
30 Chandler, AZ 240,500
31 Burke, VA 58,200
32 Bolingbrook, IL 69,800
33 Loveland, CO 61,100
34 Euless, TX 52,000
35 Edison, NJ 101,400
36 West Bloomfield Township, MI 65,900
37 Reston, VA 63,600
38 Frisco, TX 80,400
39 Shawnee, KS 59,200
40 Eden Prairie, MN 60,900
41 Maple Grove, MN 60,500
42 Bellevue, WA 118,100
43 Burnsville, MN 59,300
44 Westminster, CO 105,700
45 Franklin, TN 55,800
46 North Hempstead, NY 222,600
47 Scottsdale, AZ 231,100
48 Novi, MI 54,100
49 Newton, MA 82,800
50 Longmont, CO 82,600
51 Hamilton, NJ 91,700
52 Edmond, OK 76,600
53 Ames, IA 51,500
54 Wheaton, IL 54,600
55 Peoria, AZ 142,000
56 Missouri City, TX 73,600
57 Denton, TX 109,500
58 Washington, NJ 52,600
59 Clay, NY 58,800
60 St. Peters, MO 54,800
61 Sterling Heights, MI 127,900
62 Shelby, MI 72,200
63 Orem, UT 90,800
64 Sugar Land, TX 79,900
65 Chapel Hill, NC 49,900
66 Rockville, MD 59,100
67 Garland, TX 217,900
68 O'Fallon, MO 72,400
69 Lewisville, TX 94,500
70 Rochester, MN 96,900
71 Clarkstown, NY 82,600
72 Waltham, MA 59,300
73 Weston, FL 65,700
74 Aurora, IL 170,600
75 Union, NJ 56,000
76 West Hartford, CT 65,100
77 Howell, NJ 52,000
78 Coral Springs, FL 129,800
79 Lee's Summit, MO 81,900
80 Greenburgh, NY 89,000
81 Germantown, MD 59,600
82 St. Charles, MO 63,000
83 Sandy, UT 94,200
84 Henderson, NV 240,600
85 Chesapeake, VA 220,500
86 Middletown, NJ 67,600
87 Brookline, MA 59,600
88 Fargo, ND 90,000
89 Madison, WI 223,300
90 Roseville, CA 107,100
91 Fountain Valley, CA 55,800
92 Orland Park, IL 55,500
93 Blaine, MN 55,100
94 Sunnyvale, CA 130,500
95 Spring Valley, NV 176,700
96 Grand Prairie, TX 153,800
97 Bismarck, ND 58,300
98 Miramar, FL 108,000
99 Midlothian, VA 54,500
100 Wayne, NJ 55,700

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