Atlanta Is The No. 1 Place To Live: Money Magazine

Georgia — Atlanta is the No. 1 place to dwell in the USA, in response to a brand new rating launched this week by Cash. Marietta was additionally included within the rating.

The 2022 rating of fifty Greatest Locations to Reside within the U.S. consists of cities that supply the perfect in what issues most to residents: financial alternatives, high quality of life, and variety, in response to Cash. This 12 months, researchers additionally got down to characteristic a extra various checklist of cities than in previous years.

“We stored returning to the query, ‘finest locations to dwell for whom?’” researchers stated on Cash’s web site. “(Earlier cities have been) typically quaint, inexpensive — and unintentionally but overwhelmingly white. We wished to create a extra welcoming checklist for a broader group of individuals this 12 months, so we restructured our information gathering and rating processes to replicate that precedence.”

Atlanta ranked the best on the checklist amongst cities in Georgia. With a inhabitants of 487,560 folks, Atlanta residents have a median family revenue of $82,859 whereas town’s unemployment price is 3.1 p.c.

Atlanta is dwelling to a botanical backyard, 4 skilled sports activities groups and the Excessive Museum of Artwork.

“Locals are notably keen on The Varsity, a drive-in burger joint that opened in 1928, and the Busy Bee Cafe, a diner that’s been slinging soul meals because the ‘40s,” Cash researchers stated.

One other metropolis on the checklist is Marietta, ranked No. 35.

To find out the cities on this 12 months’s checklist, Cash analyzed information in 9 totally different areas: value of dwelling, range, financial alternative, schooling, enjoyable and facilities, well being and security, the housing market, revenue and private finance, and high quality of life.

Information was collected from a number of sources together with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers.

Learn extra concerning the methodology for Cash’s Greatest Locations To Reside.

The highest metropolis on this 12 months’s checklist is Atlanta, Georgia.

“That is no accident,” researchers stated. “At a time when individuals are turning into rather more introspective about their function in society, our objective this 12 months was to call a primary the place anybody can really feel like they belong. And for that, Atlanta is difficult to beat.”

Following Atlanta is Tempe, Arizona, at No. 2, and Kirkland, Washington, at No. 3.

See the total checklist of Greatest Locations To Reside.