Rating

General Quality

Scale56-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with a strong all-around quality-of-life baseline, balancing safety and health, opportunity and affordability, community scale and culture, climate and environmental resilience, and everyday mobility and outdoor access.

Sources

Data behind the rating

1 source

Current published Places component scores

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Data
Eighteen current 0-100 Places scores spanning safety, affordability, opportunity, health, weather, environment, education, culture, outdoors, mobility, population, and growth.
What it tells us
Provides a broad quality-of-life baseline while preserving each underlying score's own methodology and source evidence.

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