To find out which small cities outshine the rest, WalletHub compared more than 1,300 U.S. cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 based on 45 key indicators of livability. They range from housing costs to school-system quality to the number of restaurants per capita.

Across the US, you’ll find dozens of smaller cities that offer all the trappings of a small town —fresh air, tree-lined streets, plenty of opportunities to use the word “quaint”—with enough metro...

Livability partnered with Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) to construct a list of 100 cities based on data points and an algorithm that analyzed a city’s economy, housing and cost of living,...

To determine which cities would be considered for this list, Resonance looked at U.S. cities with populations between 100,000 and 500,000. Resonance separately ranked large U.S. cities with populations of more than 1 million and midsize U.S. cities with populations between 500,000 and 1 million.

To find the best places with populations under 100,000 for retirees, GOBankingRates pulled data from ApartmentList, the Census Bureau, Sperling’s Best, the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2021...