About the book

Cities Ranked & Rated: Your Guide to the Best Places to Live in the U.S. & Canada provides timely facts and unbiased information on over 400 U.S. and 30 Canadian cities in an easy-to-access format.

Whether you're mulling over the idea of relocating, trying to decide where to start out, or just curious about how your hometown stacks up, you'll be intrigued by Cities Ranked & Rated. In addition to providing population statistics, each city is ranked on a number of essential factors, many of which are of vital interest in today's economy.

Categories include: economy and jobs, cost of living, climate, education, health and health care, crime, transportation, leisure, and arts and culture. Easy-to-use tables help you put this wealth of information to work to find the city that best suits your special needs and interests.

About BestPlaces

For nearly 20 years, Sperling's BestPlaces has been helping people find their own Best Place to live, work, play, and retire. As the foremost creator of these studies, our work appears in the national media nearly every month, where they enlighten and entertain millions.

In 2000, we made our information available on the Web site BestPlaces.net. An article in the Washington Post recently declared, "No other site was nearly as comprehensive or compelling as this one." The web site has been the focus of articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, as well as local newspapers throughout the country.