The Milken Institute's annual report on Best-Performing Cities highlights cities with strong job markets, affordable housing, and access to essential services. Raleigh, North Carolina, tops the large city list, while Gainesville, Georgia, leads the small city category.
This year’s best-performing cities span from coast to coast, but they all have at least a few things in common: a strong job market and affordable housing, according to a new report by the Milken Institute, a nonpartisan policy think tank. The Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities report, published annually since 1999, measures cities’ effectiveness at promoting economic growth and access to services needed for higher quality of life.
This year’s index places a strong focus on jobs, wages, high-tech growth, housing affordability, broadband coverage, community resilience and income inequality. Large cities and small cities are then classified into five tiers, with Tier 1 being the highest-ranked cities and Tier 5 being the lowest-ranked cities. Click here for an interactive map. Raleigh, North Carolina, ranked No.
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