Kiplinger’s 10 Best Places to Raise a Family

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10. Stamford, Conn.
Population: 122,643
Average family income: $131,822 (U.S. average: $82,446)
Percentage of families with children: 29.5% (U.S. average: 29.8%)
Metro-area spending per student: $9,631 (U.S. median: $5,914)
Public playgrounds: 14

9. Corona, Calif.
Population: 152,374
Average family income: $97,618
Percentage of families with children: 45.2%
Metro-area spending per student: $5,917
Public playgrounds: 25

8. Middletown, N.Y.
Population: 28,086
Average family income: $70,842
Percentage of families with children: 34%
Metro-area spending per student: $11,194
Public playgrounds: 10

7. Sunnyvale, Calif.
Population: 140,081
Average family income: $123,647
Percentage of families with children: 32.6%
Metro-area spending per student: $7,345
Public playgrounds: 25

6. Appleton, Wis.
Population: 72,623
Average family income: $79,909
Percentage of families with children: 31.3%
Metro-area spending per student: $6,047
Public playgrounds: 27

5. East Grand Rapids, Mich.
Population: 10,694
Average family income: $142,329
Percentage of families with children: 44.1%
Metro-area spending per student: $5,748
Public playgrounds: 8

4. Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Population: 126,683
Average family income: $138,313
Percentage of families with children: 33.4%
Metro-area spending per student: $5,947
Public playgrounds: 40

3. Suwanee, Ga.
Population: 15,355
Average family income: $104,813
Percentage of families with children: 40.3%
Metro-area spending per student: $6,008
Public playgrounds: 4

2. Richland, Wash.
Population: 48,058
Average family income: $95,620
Percentage of families with children: 28.7%
Metro-area spending per student: $8,528
Public playgrounds: 29

1. Omaha, Neb.
Population: 408,958
Average family income: $78,466
Percentage of families with children: 28.3%
Metro-area spending per student: $6,077
Public playgrounds: 157

Source: Kiplinger’s

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9 COMMENTS

  1. It’s unfortunate that none of those places are remotely affordable for a family on a single income.

      • Omaha wouldn’t be expensive. No more so than Evansville, I’m sure, with its Vectren vamps sucking the blood from everyone.

  2. none of them are remotely affordable for most 2 income families in this area (where doe these average US families live seriously??)

    • I have actually lived in both Sunnyvale, CA and Thousand Oaks, CA as an adult along with 12 years in Evansville. My experience is that the career opportunities and the wages that come with them for a person of my expertise is much better in those two cities than it ever was in Evansville. I recently returned to California for those very reasons. It is all relative but for a business executive with an engineering background in product development Sunnyvale, Thousand Oaks, or Rancho Mirage where I am now offer better opportunities that Evansville.

  3. How can you be living in one of the best cities to raise a family if that city is located in a bankrupted State?

    I think Jerry Brown is living in the state of denial.

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    • In all fairness the Kiplinger report is about how families live day to day and does not consider things like Stockton and Compton. Neither of those place made the list. The Governor is not as big of a problem as the legislature is. He sees the problems but couldn’t fix them if he wanted to because of the Democrat super majority in the legislature

  5. I went to Omaha back in 2010 for the last game at Rosenblatt Stadium. Aside from the demolition of Rosenblatt the city is doing some great things there. Basically, they are building everything that was on Evansville’s 2001 master plan like a ballpark, a new arena, a canal, a marina, and a pedestrian bridge all while keeping their old arena, preserving a historic district as a shopping complex, and marketing heavily on their Union Pacific railroad history.

    Omaha, like OKC, is moving up the charts fast because of their smart urban planning.

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